Sitcomics Posted March 16, 2019 Share Posted March 16, 2019 It seems like every month there are 100 new creator-owned titles to replace the 100 old creator-owned titles that disappear, never to be heard from again. Obviously, every creator owned series is different but when a creator-owned series debuts from Image, Aftershock, Dark Horse or the other non-Marvel/DC/Valiant publishers, who usually makes the decision to pull the plug? Do the creators ask/try/beg to keep the thing going but they are told they can't? If so, by whom? Or do the creators bail after seeing sales numbers? If the creator truly does own it and went to all that trouble over months and even years to get their passion project made, why not find another publisher to keep it going before giving up? Without knowing what's really happening, it seems more and more as though creator owned series are more like intellectual property lottery tickets. If there's no TV option after a year, tear up the lottery ticket and go create another lottery ticket. I get the allure of selling TV rights, but it's hard to convince a network that a comic has TV potential when it didn't have enough juice to go past one or two story arcs as comics. If Kirkman had bailed after 12 issues of Walking Dead, the TV thing may have never even happened. So in the creator owned world, who is the person who says, "cancelled"? www.sitcomics.net ComicConnoisseur 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGH Posted March 17, 2019 Share Posted March 17, 2019 I'd guess $.. Think I read somewhere if you sell less than 10k books / month it's hard to pull a salary after costs ComicConnoisseur 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
