There was a guy who has run a comic book store in Massachusetts for 30 years and he ripped into the industry and complained about how dc and marvel comics weren’t selling and said to quit it with the self inserts. Of course the marvel and dc writers attacked him and the lady that bullied Dan Didio into hiring more women at dc attacked him and EVS responded and said feminists have ruined comics and the good female writers are good because they understand that comic books are a male audience
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Yep. I remember seeing America Chavez, Ms. Marvel, and Ironfist collecting dust. I was talking to an MCU shill and explaining the comics didn’t sell and he didn’t believe me.
My local comic store sells a ton of manga. Most comics sold are back issue
It's media in general. The people making the decisions are so entrenched, and the business model is so out of date, that a newbie to the field can't get any attention, and if they do, they'll never get a second shot if their first fails (and it probably will). Anyone who does get a book/comic/album released is probably so deep in the machine that they either have no common ground with reality, or know that if they don't toe the line, the business will spit them out.
Eric July is killing it. Of course he's independent, and not selling through shops, but it can done. Just have to avoid the gatekeepers like DC and Marvel.
Only the independents are making it right now. Best numbers I've seen is that the average new writer gets about a 50K advance, and only 1 in 4 or 5 earn that out and get a second book. Meanwhile, about half of independent authors are making 30K a year from writing.