(Note: These figures are specific to me. Every project and creative team are different and prices vary drastically.)
Comic URL:
$103 (5 Years Registration)
Why register for five years? Why not just register for one? Well, since it’s an ongoing property, you’re going to have it for a long time. It’s much cheaper to register a domain once for a longer period of time then it is to renew it annually.
Font License:
$30 One time fee per title.
What?! Why would you pay for a font? I pay for fonts for two reasons. First, free fonts fall short. They don’t look very nice and they especially don’t help give the comic its own look. Second, fonts are created by artists and designers and they should also be supported as well.
Penciled/Inked Pages:
$970 (23 pages at roughly $43 per page.)
What I currently pay is $40 USD/page but since I’m Canadian there’s an additional $3/page that comes from Paypal service fees and Exchange Rate differences.
Total:
$1104 USD (Give or take a few for exchange rate and fees.)
The above sum lets us create a Black & White, 23 inked page, digital version of the comic issue. That we can then uploaded as a webcomic and offer as a digital download. Adding color would cost and additional $450+ per 23 pages.
The cool thing about making this comic is that I can do whatever I want with it. So for me it’s all about having fun. One of the things I’d like to do is include people that I know both from the web and real life as cameos/characters in the books. So this one is a concept of Natalie Tran… has a different last name in the book though. Again, it’s a concept and there’ll be a real artist doing all the drawing.
All right, so I’ve starting to do up some concept images of characters for the comic I’m working on. I have three more main characters to draw. Note: I don’t like my art. This is simply to help me get my point across to an actual artist who I’ll be paying to make my comics look pretty.
