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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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.