How do you become a successful cartoonist these days?
Do you pretty much have to put in a fanart quota for people to notice you, on top of original art?
is going to conventions a must? or can you sell everything online these days?
It seems there's still a lot of publishers out there. With no online presence, would it still be feasible to get published traditionally?
This isn't so much a "how's your webcomic" thread as much as a "how to webcomic" thread
Some like to lure in people with fanart at first, and then slowly put their original art into the mix, giving bits and bits of info about the characters in-between fanart posts
Don't, it's horrible, find something else to do. Literally anything.
my only other prospects are grocery bagging and call centers, and there's no hell worse than that
>be poc
>be womin
>whine on tumblr
And you're done.
Alternatively: Learn to draw the most degenerate fetishes for that porn commission money
has that ever worked out in the long run for anyone? seems like those artists burn out after everyone moves onto someone else, unless its like a super niche and typically unpleasant fetish
ok seriously who do i have to kill to get a rocket launcher
i've wanted one since i was like eight
The convention circuit is a money pit unless you're making enough money to offset table and traveling costs. Which might be hard when Artist Alleys aren't even the main attraction at cons today. Selling digitally is better if only because you won't have to deal with printing and shipping fees.
>With no online presence, would it still be feasible to get published traditionally?
The paradox here is that if nobody knows who you are and you haven't published anything, nobody's going to take a chance on you. So sadly, you're gonna have to work from the bottom-up until you either git gud or get lucky.
Preferably? A guy with a rocket launcher
But if you can kill a guy with a rocket launcher, do you even need one?
>asking about success on Sup Forums of all places
You have to suck the right dicks.
What you create dictates what circles you end up in
I'm recruiting some artists for an ongoing web project and I have no interest in hiring porn artists. I don't want their circles/fanbase/notoriety being mixed into the E-for-everyone stardard I'm going to push.
The only connections they really have are other porn artsits.
key to getting known is talking and making friends with both pulbishers and other artists, eventually, you may get a real friend or at least a mutually useful deal. just don't get too involed or fall in cliques. that's a death warrant because you will not be able to get out
Be good enough and put in enough work and surely that First Second book deal will come in.
It has. If you have the skill and talent and draw what people want to see you'll garner a loyal following. Especially if your good at doing furry stuff. Furfags are made of money.
Make something interesting, hope someone more popular than you shares it, then coast off the recognition.
See Gigidigi who got famous with Persona and Metal Gear comics before launching Cucumber Quest and pretending her old stuff didn't exist.
>grocery bagging
I did that job for three/four years mate, I feel your pain. Just try to get into the grocery/dairy/frozen depts, but for the love of god avoid retail. I'm stuck in retail hell right now, and I'd rather be back at my old job in frozen foods hell.
I've got the same plan though, lure in with fanart, slowly push originals. Anything to make some extra cash until I can get a better job or actually strike it decent in the art world.
The King Features syndicate is still operating right? They give artists exposure in thousands of newspapers every single day
Cons are an absolute must if you're trying to get published. You need to meet editors and other creators face to face to establish a relationship and keep on their radar.
It all depends on what you wanna do in comics though. D'you wanna work for a publisher? D'you wanna pitch a creator-owned book, or get a deal with one of the boutique alt comic houses? Or are you happy doing a webcomic and promoting that?
1 draw draw draw draw. Draw all the time, drawing is not a hobby or a just a job, it's a lifestyle
2 jeep your old shitty job around, who knows if your crude sketches become the next Simpsons
3 be social, go to cons and reply to editors and artists on twitter, this is purely promotional you dont have to actually like them
4 save as much as you can, eat cheap ramen, dont drink/do drugs pirate everything that can be too expensive
/biz/ is for that
Call center jobs aren't that bad. You eventually die inside, but you can forget that shit when you go home at the end of the day. Trying to be a creative haunts your every waking hour.
Also, if you're a straight white male, don't bother. You'll get more hatred on the web than you will from irate customers.
make an antitrump webcomic
profit
when did that ever work?
Just remember EliOli or whatever they're called got their job at Dreamworks even before going to college just because they posted their art on tumblr