i need to raise some money and've thought about selling a few pieces and pages i have. , i'd like to sell em and get GOOD money, not just unload em for 10 bucks or so, where's the best place to move art, for lack of a better term.

i assume you're after some site geared towards selling originals or something. I mean ebay is n obvious option and flood forums and dev art etc with announcements. Personally I would hit local comic stores and see if they will do anything for you. That and cons.

I've seen some people make an Etsy store for selling originals. Might be an option.

Ebay is probably the best place, but keep in mind, if you're not a well-known published print artist you will struggle to get 10 dollars a page. For example, Ben Dunn, a major American comic artist (Ninja High School, Warrior Nun Areala, Marvel's Mangaverse, etc) can only get 10-25 dollars for original comic pages on eBay.

The better way to go is to sell limited prints (have them printed at Ka-Blam). Sell them directly from your webcomics page using Paypal. If you have a print run of 25 and sell each print for just a few dollars, you're way ahead (Ka-Blam charges 1.50 for each 11x17 inch print, sign and number them, you're in business). They should be pinups, not comic pages though... people only buy comic pages because they think the artist is going to do great things and their investment will pay off.

It's a tough market for comic artists these days, and unless you really have a lot of published books behind you (Ben has over 200 published books dating back to the mid 1980's, including, as mentioned, several books for Marvel), you're just not going to make money selling pages.

Another friend who has 7 published books to her credit so far tries to sell pages on Etsy at, I believe, 25 dollars each... I don't think she's ever sold a single page.

So, if you can get 10 dollars for a page, shake the man's hand off :-)

This strategy may help. It worked for me. I self published a graphic novel and ordered a small amount of them from lulu.com. I bought a table at otakon. For our table we set up a dj station for my friend which got many people's attention. As they were listening to the music my friends and I went out to mingle with people and we eventually sold all the copies by the second day.

The next year. We did the same but ordered more copies. We used the same strategy but as expanded on it to make more money. We made a soundtrack for the novel and advertised the graphic novel as a hot item because last year we sold out of all of them. We didn't tell them we only ordered a small amount (I think it was like 25) the first time so it made it seem like the novel was even better than it was. Once again we sold all the copies. I think it was 5o or so...and the soundtracks too.

But did your sales actually pay for your expenses? Conventions are expensive... gas money, hotel, convention costs... that can easily run to over 1000 dollars for a convention that's only a few hundred miles away. I've heard a lot of my pro friends say that unless you can make at least 2000 dollars at a convention, it's not worth the trip. But, some lucky people have conventions just a few miles away (lucky people living in Texas have 5 or 6 conventions within driving distance). I live in WV... nothing is close to WV, nothing. My convention trips have always lost me money, even when I sell out of books and do a stack of commissions.