Start drawing your comic and donât bother with creating merchandise. Once your comic is rolling and has a fanbase, you can create merch and promote it. But as a new creator, nobody cares for your characters or wants stuff with them on it (unless you are already a huge, established artist)
But for starter, ad-revenue and tipping is the first step. Publish your comic on both, Tapas and Webtoons and hope for it to grow quick. Make sure you have a good backlog of chapters because it can be really frustrating if reality doesnât turn out the way you wished for.
Offering comissions and âtipping rewardsâ will help you too. If you can handle that on the side, Iâd highly recommend you doing that
You can open up aPatreon or Ko-Fi, but that can wait too because, just like with merch, peeps donât give you money if they donât care for your project.
Be prepared to spend months perhaps even years without being able to live off of your creation, or even make huge amount of money.
There is no âget rich quickâ scheme in Webcomics (unless you are super lucky and places like Webtoons pushes you and your project heavily that you make a huge amount of (dedicated) subs within 2 weeks....but that hardly happens ^^
However, itâs still worth a try. The project me and my husband are working on entered its third year now and we are able to pay our basic bills with all our revenue streams combined. Itâs not huge money and hardly anything is left over by the end of the month. But itâs worth the effort