Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. GlobalComix is a self-serve comics publishing platform that allows anyone to create, upload, and publish their comics.

Yes. Uploading to GlobalComix is designed as a creator-friendly service, and you retain the full rights to all of your work. For more details, read our Terms of Service.

No. You need to either own the comic or publishing rights to publish comics on GlobalComix. For more details, read our Terms of Service.

We make it as easy as possible to upload and publish your work on GlobalComix as we can. We support uploads uploads of one or many image files (.jpg, .png), or any archive container formats such as PDF (.pdf), or ZIP (.zip, .cbz) with one or multiple pages/files.

There is no maximum image pixel size required. As part of the upload process, we process and resize your images into multiple versions (original, desktop, mobile, and thumbnail sizes). If the image is larger than 1280 px wide (single page), or larger than 1920px wide (double page), we will resize the images down to those widths (with the corresponding correct height ratio) for the images served to your readers.

That said, we recommend that you always upload the highest quality version of your work whenever possible, as this will result in the best image quality and reading experience for your readers.

No. You are free to publish your content on any other platform in addition to GlobalComix, such as your own website, or on other comic hosting services.

That said, we are working very hard to make GlobalComix the best and easiest platform to use for comic creators, and you probably want to consolidate most of your work in one place in order to effectively market it and minimize time spent maintaining your work everywhere. For this, you should obviously choose to use us! ;)

If you think that your specific language, or comic category type are missing from the options you can select, please post a suggestion for us in the suggestions forum to let us know. We'll respond to you as soon as we can!

Generally speaking, we are fairly relaxed about what kinds of comics you can create and public. The exception to this is explicitly sexual stories (such as Hentai) which are not accepted on GlobalComix. The rule of thumb is that nudity is allowed when not in context of depicting sexual acts in the same way you might encounter nudity when watching a movie in the theatres. For more in-depth information, please visit our content policy.

The interactive panel-to-panel reading experience is one of the cornerstones of what makes GlobalComix a great platform for readers across all devices. It's a way for you as a creator to visually provide a guided story experience, bringing focus from panel to panel in the zoom and order you intended them to be read.

When you upload your creations to GlobalComix, you are strongly encouraged to set up the interactive panel-to-panel reading experience using our Creator Tool.

The Interactive Reading Mode allows readers to easily consume your comics on a panel-by-panel basis, where our reader tool will zoom and transition the reader between panels in the desired order, making for a very good mobile device reading experience that does not require the reader to pinch-and-zoom repeadedly for every page they're reading.

It also allows you better control of the story's focal points, as well as innately making sure that the comic is read in the right direction by international audiences (ex: left to right vs right to left).

When you upload your comic pages, you will see links to "View" and "Edit" each page. Clicking the "Edit" link takes you into the creator tool where you can define the size and bounds of each panel. You can add new frames around your panels by pressing the "F" key on your keyboard, or by clicking the "Add Frame" button in the top of the editor experience, and then selecting the area of your image that correspond to your panel.

Yes! You can add any number of points to your panel's path by clicking on the straight lines to add more points. You can then move the points around to create any shape that you want, whether circular, octagonal, or otherwise irregular.

By default, when you upload your releases and pages, only you can access and read the them. Once you publish your comic release, the page(s) become available to read for anyone on the internet.

You can also set specific access controls on your comic via the "Edit Licensing" link on your comic admin section. Here you can choose to require payment to access your comic globally, and also create overrides for regions to your liking.

For those of you with specific regional distribution rights, you can control availability on a comic language and region basis in your "Edit Licensing" page in your comic admin section. For example, you could choose to make your comic require payment for readers in the US, completely unavailable to readers in China, and free for the rest of the world.

You can specify the licensing model / access criteria on the "Edit Licensing" page in your your comic's admin section. Simply set "Global Availability" to Paid to enable a pay-wall globally, or set it specifically for regions you want to monetize in the "Regional Overrides" of the same page.

Yes. Whether you want to give away free access to friends and family, or are planning on running a promotional campaign during specific dates, we have you covered.

To create free promotional codes, visit your "Incentive Codes" section via your account menu in the navigation bar. This page lets you view, manage, and create promotional codes that you can give away.

Please note that any free promotional codes that you create are only applicable and can be used when reading your content.

You have a wide variety of criteria that you can define which govern the use of your promotional codes, giving you full control of how many can claim the codes, what dates they can be claimed, or even whether the promotional codes expire.

The list of criteria you can use are:

• Type of promotional code (free page credits, vs limited time access).
  • For free page credits type, you can specify the # amount of free page credits that each user will get. When a user reads your content with free page credits, they are given the right to re-read thos pages for free at any time in the future.
  • For limited time access type, users are given a duration in which they can read your content entirely for free. After that duration expires, they will no longer be able to access the pages they've previously read for free, and need to buy page credits as normal to re-read your content.
• Maximum count of users who can claim your promotional code.
  • This setting allows you to control how many users are able to claim your code. If you set this to "100", then only the first 100 people who claim the code are able to do so.
• The expiration time of a promotional code once it has been claimed by a user.
  • Both time-based free access and free page-credit type promotional codes can have a expiration time assigned. For free page credits type, this means that any credits that are not used by the expiration time are lost. For time-based free access, this means the expiration time of when the promotional code will deactivate.
  • Note: it is possible to set your promotional codes to never expire. We urge extreme caution with using this setting in combination with time-based free access, as this essentially means you are giving users who claim the code permanent free access to your content.
• (Optional) - The specific date range in which the code can be redeemed by any user.
  • This is useful for if you are running campaigns during specific dates, such as for holidays or special events. By specifying a date range in which users can claim the code, you are able to pre-create free access codes and create campaign assets, print gift cards, and so on, without worrying about users being able to access your content prematurely.
  • When used in combination with an expiration duration, you can for example set a code to be claimable only on July 4th, with a duration of 1 day. Meaning, you are giving away access only for July 4th.

When you enable paid access on your comics, users are required to purchase reading credits to read your content.

For each paid access page a user reads, we deduct one page credit from their pool and assign the corresponding page credit value to you as income based on your revenue share %.

You can view a list of buyable page credit tiers and prices on the buy credits page.

To calculate how much you earn for each paid page read, take the price of the page credit package and divide by the amount of page credits purchased to get the total value of one page read. Then subtract the % that GlobalComix takes from that number and what remains is the income you get for each paid page read.

Generally speaking, GlobalComix takes a 25-35% share of the money readers spend when buying reading credits, the rest goes directly to you as the creator.

It's important to note that we bake in all payment processing/transaction fees directly into our cut, so there's no extra processing fees or deductions that determine what you earn for your content.

Further, there might be times where we take a lower % share, depending on specific revenue share agreements with individual creators. You can always view what your revenue share % is by visiting your Creator Profile settings page and looking at the "Monetizing your comics" section.

GlobalComix uses Paypal to transfer funds to our creators who publish and monetize their comics on our platform. In order to get paid, you need to have an active PayPal account, and list your PayPal account email in your Creator Page settings.

When you have more than the minimum required earned income (US $30), you can claim your payout at any time from your Income History page by clicking "Claim Payout" button. We will then immediately issue a transfer for the listed amount (minus the payout fee) to your PayPal account.

The payout fee is the exact cost that GlobalComix is charged in order to send you your money. For PayPal users, this is ~3-4.5% and the sum varies depending on country, and for US Stripe users, this is $2.25 + 0.25%. You can be fully confident that GlobalComix does not charge any additional fees on top of what our payout provider(s) charges us.

When readers pay for access your paid content or send you donations, your income is first listed in the "Pending Income" section of your income history page. All income earned will sit in the "Pending Income" status for a total of 14 days, and can not be claimed for a payout nor used to pay for access or donations during this time.

The 14 day waiting period is a measure that's set up to help prevent fraud, and to allow the full transfer of funds to transpire end-to-end. If payment fraud is detected during this time-frame, we will invalidate the corresponding income and remove any user access that might have wrongfully been purchased.

"Confirmed Income" is the total amount of earned income that has passed the 14 day wait period and is is available to you to either spend on reading access, donations to other creators, or to claim as a payout.

Currently we only support Payouts using PayPal, but are looking to enable a larger set of options in the future. Keep an eye out on our Blog for more information and announcements regarding payout providers.

No! Creating an account and engaging with the community is completely free on GlobalComix, and there are many comics available that are completely free to read.

No, all of the comics you see listed are created by individual creators and publishers around the world. GlobalComix role is to help these creators publish their work for everyone to read.

Nope! We have created a platform that allows you to read comics on any device directly in your web browser. It's the same experience whether you're on a desktop/laptop, tablet, or phone, and you can access GlobalComix from anywhere that has internet access.

Yes! Some creators might opt to allow readers to submit donations that are not tied to accessing their content. You can check if the specific creator you're excited about has enabled donations on their creator profile page.

The minimum amount you can donate is US $5.00 and the maximum is US $1,500.00 per donation.

Yes. To get alerted, simply visit the page for each comic you want alerts for and click "Enable Alerts". By default that signs you up for both on-site and email notifications that let you know when your favorite creators have published more work.

Yes. Visit your "Notification Settings" page in your account administration section to customize your alert settings.

Yes. When you follow a creator on GlobalComix, you'll both be listed in their "followers" page, and they will receive an alert that you followed them. This is a great way to show support for your favorite creators.

On GlobalComix, there is a mix between comics that are free to read and comics that require payment to access. To access the paid comics, you need to have available page credits on your account. You are then charged one page credit per page of a paid comic that you read. This translates to a price of roughly $0.05 per page read.

Once you have spent a credit on a paid access page, you are free to read it again and will not be charged twice for reading the same page.

No, not all comics require payment to read. Creators can opt in to monetize their comics, provided the comics fully abide by our content-policy.

If you feel that you have incorrectly been charged for blank/spammy pages, please contact us at content-violation@globalcomix.com within 10 days of reading and we will look into your case and get back to you.

If we find that the content is in violation of the terms of our content-policy, we will return your credit(s) that were consumed by the offending content.