Hello All,

I have someone who's finally convinced me to publish my web comic, Cloud Eagle, into comic books that done on this site (trying not to plug but have to give a place source for the questions). Because this was originally just for fun, pages are odd numbered as I felt a story would begin or end where I felt like it. Soon we'll be going over the pages so see if some pages can be pulled and others merged to get the clean 20 pages per issue. This isn't going to look pretty.

Another thing is since I hate everything about my art, I'm wanting to redo the 80 - 100 pages. Yeah, I'm my own worst enemy. I wanted to get some your opinions regarding this.

Thanks,
Sifu Eagle

This will get better responses in the Comics Discussion thread. I'll move it there now.

What's your question? How to handle print comics?

Don't go with serials. Diamond's new policy will ensure your death and there's hardly any money even for the big three (I don't even know why companies still do monthly serials as only a handful of comics sell 50k copies or greater). Combine all of your work into a single book (I assume you have more than 100 pages) and option it to as many publishers as you can.

I haven't printed anything, but from what I understand, small issues are death. TPB sell much better nowadays.

Taking the time out to redo such a huge amount of pages- also sounds like death. That is a road that once embarked upon, becomes difficult to leave. Once you redo the first 90 pages, you'll look at the next 90 pages and want to improve THEM, etc.

Just publish what you've got and focus on moving forward and creating new content. Art will never be satisfactory to its creator, but wasting time re-drawing something you've already put time into seems pretty futile.

Thanks for the advice, especially Skoolmunkee. I will look at a TPB now.

interesting topic....

first off, be smart. lay out your pages and pay attention to how it will lay out in a book format. will your cliffhanger page be on the left side or the right side? it may lose impact. If you have any double page splashes, MAKE SURE IT IS PRINTED CORRECTLY! you dont want one half of it on the right side and the other half on the next page. throw in a black page if you have to, to make sure it gets printed correctly.

I know of a site that has really good prices for print, but they do not distribute for you. They give you a pretty good discount if you stick an ad for them in your comic somewhere.

http://www.darkphoenixprinting.com/catalog/index.php

issues sell better at cons when you just starting out and working on the kinks.

after that, then switch on to GNs.

best of luck.