Authors Don't Get Rich

Hmm.

I attended the Zinefest in Milwaukee this weekend. Had a nice talk with a guy who ran a distro (that's a distributing 'company' for home made zines) and who had gotten his comic strip published in book format. HARDCOVER! 300 pages!

His publisher was up in Canada. They'd done a print run of 4,000 books. Price was set at $29.99. Out of that he got $2 per book. If he wanted copies he could purchase them at half cost. So the most he took in as an author for that would be $8,000. Don't quit the day job.

Sure, the publisher takes on the printing costs, the storage fees, shipping, etc. And the middle man takes a huge chunk too, but TWO DOLLARS per book for the author/artist? Wow.

Sure makes it more appealing to look at self publishing. Hey?

Another Strip in the Making

One of the cats has envy of the Siamese' ninja skills. I wanted him to get excited about making nunchucks out of toilet paper rolls, and threatening another of the cats with them (not to much effect obviously). It goes downhill from there.

Comes to 4 strips total before it wound down. Not bad.