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Highborn Comic Announcement
8 years ago
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(Reposting here to get the word out on multiple mediums)
Hey guys, I've mentioned a serious project for Highborn in passing to a few people in comments and have been pretty hush hush (unless you follow my twitter and it spoiled the surprise)
After completing the first chapter (purposely a short one) of Highborn, I decided I was ready to really take it one as a serious project. I want to be able to put my heart body and soul into this so that I can write a story that I feel people might enjoy. Because of this, I've decided to open up a Patreon for Highborn.
HOLD UP, PLEASE READ.
Nothing of my posting schedule will change for highborn, and no pages will be withheld EVER! I intend to make sure that this Patreon thing is purely a positive aspect of my work, instead, I've set up stretch goals based on the idea of having more time to work on Highborn based on it becoming my primary form of income. I want to maybe someday do this comic fulltime and actually churn out 3 pages per week (as insane as that sounds) and I really think I could do it too! if I scheduled myself and worked fulltime on it, I definitely could get the story and comic flowing at that sort of pace, but I'd need to devote all my time on it, and that means it would need support me.
Back when Patreon first launched, I saw people jump on like a bandwagon of "get paid to do what you love" and that soon turned into "get paid to do whatever you want". I saw people putting paywalls and restrictions on their work and it really made me frown, I draw because I love to, and I show it off because I want to, I have some rather choice opinions about crowdfunding in general.
1. I feel that people who get supported should have a specific product or service that the patrons can see, and actively want to support before ever considering crowd funding.
2. I feel that I needed to make sure I actually had something of worth before even considering it, I don't think Patreon should be something that people do on a whim
3. Paywalls and patron only content feels inherently wrong to me, therefore I will not use such methods to seek revenue.
4. I feel like having anyone support my work at all is something I should be grateful for.
Basically, if you like my work, want to see it more often, and have a couple spare bucks a month, I'd be flattered if any of you chose to support me. No one has to, this could just be a blink and you missed it type thing, this doesn't mean I will stop working on Highborn. I will continue to work on it with the higher level of quality shown here on a weekly basis regardless. Things will only start to change in positive ways if I hit a stretchgoal.
The Patreon can be found here: https://www.patreon.com/Highborn
Also, I've added a few rewards and would like some feedback about them, I've never done this sort of thing so I haven't a clue what a reasonable pricerange of different reward tiers should be.
ALSO, ALSO, even if you don't feel like supporting, can't right now, or never want to, please leave me feedback, I want to know if this is a good idea or not, and how I can improve. I seriously haven't had readers before, so this is all really new to me! and I care about what you think of me and my choices about the comic!
Hey guys, I've mentioned a serious project for Highborn in passing to a few people in comments and have been pretty hush hush (unless you follow my twitter and it spoiled the surprise)
After completing the first chapter (purposely a short one) of Highborn, I decided I was ready to really take it one as a serious project. I want to be able to put my heart body and soul into this so that I can write a story that I feel people might enjoy. Because of this, I've decided to open up a Patreon for Highborn.
HOLD UP, PLEASE READ.
Nothing of my posting schedule will change for highborn, and no pages will be withheld EVER! I intend to make sure that this Patreon thing is purely a positive aspect of my work, instead, I've set up stretch goals based on the idea of having more time to work on Highborn based on it becoming my primary form of income. I want to maybe someday do this comic fulltime and actually churn out 3 pages per week (as insane as that sounds) and I really think I could do it too! if I scheduled myself and worked fulltime on it, I definitely could get the story and comic flowing at that sort of pace, but I'd need to devote all my time on it, and that means it would need support me.
Back when Patreon first launched, I saw people jump on like a bandwagon of "get paid to do what you love" and that soon turned into "get paid to do whatever you want". I saw people putting paywalls and restrictions on their work and it really made me frown, I draw because I love to, and I show it off because I want to, I have some rather choice opinions about crowdfunding in general.
1. I feel that people who get supported should have a specific product or service that the patrons can see, and actively want to support before ever considering crowd funding.
2. I feel that I needed to make sure I actually had something of worth before even considering it, I don't think Patreon should be something that people do on a whim
3. Paywalls and patron only content feels inherently wrong to me, therefore I will not use such methods to seek revenue.
4. I feel like having anyone support my work at all is something I should be grateful for.
Basically, if you like my work, want to see it more often, and have a couple spare bucks a month, I'd be flattered if any of you chose to support me. No one has to, this could just be a blink and you missed it type thing, this doesn't mean I will stop working on Highborn. I will continue to work on it with the higher level of quality shown here on a weekly basis regardless. Things will only start to change in positive ways if I hit a stretchgoal.
The Patreon can be found here: https://www.patreon.com/Highborn
Also, I've added a few rewards and would like some feedback about them, I've never done this sort of thing so I haven't a clue what a reasonable pricerange of different reward tiers should be.
ALSO, ALSO, even if you don't feel like supporting, can't right now, or never want to, please leave me feedback, I want to know if this is a good idea or not, and how I can improve. I seriously haven't had readers before, so this is all really new to me! and I care about what you think of me and my choices about the comic!
Am interested in one thing, though. And that would be the stuff you have listed on Patron as rewards. Will those ever be able to be one time payments?
as for the WIP's, high rez pages, and things like that, I don't see why not, I certainly could release some art packs or even physical copies of the pages.
also, I'd probably wait until I had enough content to offer before trying to put an art pack out there, but it's totally something I'm intending to do at some point
And that's a wise idea. If you do, people have more to buy if they do decide to, and nice!