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We recently launched GlobalComix Gold and SuperFan Program just in time for the holiday season.

We were even featured in The Hollywood Reporter!

And for good reason: we want you to be able to read titles from our creator community without anything slowing you down. Those new tools are making it easier than ever for fans like you to support their favorite creators.

While we all get wrapped up in the excitement of the gift giving spirit, you can get 50% off on GlobalComix Gold between today and of the end of Cyber Monday. The discount will expire on November 30th at midnight Eastern Time.

This is your chance to have an entire month of access to over 1000 comics for the...

This season has been full of announcements for GlobalComix, and all of them have had one central theme - supporting the creators and publishers of comics, graphic novels, and manga with as much digital firepower as we can. Diversity not only shines through in the stories and personalities of our creators, but also in the way that they run their business. We proudly announce a new combination to complete the suite of monetization models for every type of creator and publisher: Gold and The SuperFan Program.
 

GlobalComix Gold

GlobalComix Gold is our answer to the demand for subscriptions, marrying together full access for readers and the empowerment of creators by...

We’ve spoken with many creators and publishers in the past year. Despite each of their unique styles, most of them share a lot of the same needs. This is particularly true when it comes to letting more than one person or account manage published content, marketing, or finances.

Here’s some stories we’ve heard:

• We are a team of people with different responsibilities for publishing, marketing, and business administration.
• We are a partnership of 2 (or more) individuals who are creating and publishing together as a collaboration.
• I am a creator who sometimes has people help me with <x> role of publishing.
• I am a solo operator who manages everything...



Last month, we started talking about creating a budget for your comic book publishing (See How to Create a Budget for Your Comics). Now that we’ve taken a few weeks to look at the different financing options, I’d like to expand on that discussion a little bit here by highlighting the different types of things an aspiring comic book publisher needs to consider when allocating limited resources.

Publishing comics requires more than just paying for page rates and printing. There are at least seven different categories of expenses, each with smaller subcategories.

Initial Costs:  Getting your business off the ground

• Company registration
• Intellectual...

The reason we read comics is that they satisfy us with their stories, and sometimes with their physical or tactile experiences. Sometimes those things get intermingled, and we have a hard time deciphering one from the other.

With hundreds of thousands of readers having come through our platform over the past year, we’ve been watching and listening to both feedback and reading behavior in general. As a result, today we are very excited to announce that we’re launching the new GlobalComix Reader v2: what we believe to be the simplest and best reading experience in digital comics.
 

Interactive Reading Improvements

We have carefully improved the reading and...

As part of the lead up to our free financing webinar on October 29th, I’d like to explore the fundamentals of creating business management as it pertains to your aspiring comic book company.
 

What is Business Management?

Management is the organization and coordination of business activities to achieve defined objectives. As an independent publisher, this means finding the best ways to use your time, energy, and resources to achieve the milestones and goals for your comic.

Now, as a creative individual, you might consider business management a subject to avoid. If your goal is to make comics, then dealing with budgets, contracts, and schedules might be the...



Last week, we started talking about finding outside investment for your comic (See How Can You Get Others to Invest in Your Comic?) I’m going to finish off the list of different types of outside investment this week, but keep in mind we’ll go more in-depth in on this list during our free comic book financing webinar on October 29th.

1. HELOC

• a. Description: A Home Equity Line of Credit Loans (HELOC) is a loan that provides a line of credit using your home as collateral . The amount of money available to you depends on the amount of equity you have in your home and your credit rating.
• b. Advantages:
  • i. HELOCs are similar to credit cards in that you only...

October may be our favorite month as it contains one of our favorite holidays. And we would be absolutely remiss if we didn't call your attention to the best horror titles from our spectacular community. Today we want to highlight some titles in a group we affectionately call Ghosts, Hauntings, Beasties and Magic!

Check out these 5 excellent titles to get in the spirit of All-Hallows Eve, and don't forget to follow the creators and share their work to your corner of the world.
 

All Hallows' Eve, 153 pages - Published by Invader Comics, (cc/ @Invader)

On Halloween night, Satan and his demonic marauders gather souls for an eternity of blackness. On All...

After you figure out how much you can invest in your comic (See my earlier posts on self-financing), you may find that you don’t have enough to fully fund your publishing based on your initial budget. That’s when it’s time to go out into the world and find more money.

Before we go into details about getting investors and the different types of investment, we should understand that in many cases, it is very difficult to convince anyone to invest money in an untested comic book idea. The three economic realities of comic publishing we discussed earlier reduce the risk tolerance of most potential investors to the point where your offer isn’t attractive to them....

Tony Stark money isn’t the same as Peter Parker money. Different people have access to different levels and sources of personal finances. Each circumstance has unique advantages, disadvantages, and factors to think about in relation to your comic. As you review these self-financing options, keeping mind that these are broad overviews of complex financial instruments and they shouldn’t be used without understanding the risks and rewards. (See What are the Risks and Rewards of Financing Your Own Comic?)

1. Savings

• a. Description: This is the money you already have in the bank. It could come from money you save over time, tax refunds, or selling Vibranium on the black...