JLL 004 : The Business of Digital Comics with Mark Thompson

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A podcast on the business side of WebComics

In this session of The Jason Loves Life Podcast, I’m excited to have a chat with the co-founder of Checker Book Publishing Group and owner of Devil’s Due Digital,

Mark Thompson

Devil Due Digital focuses on the digital end of comic book publishing and has such famous titles as X-Files, Star Trek, Hell Raiser, Dr. Seuss, and more.

 In this episode we cover:

-What is the best digital platform/store to sell digital comics.

-Should you print your comic or just sell digitally.

-Does a college degree help in the Comic Industry.

-Why Mark has his Kickstarter campaign set for 60 days instead of the 30 days Kickstarter recommends.

MONSTRA: ZOMBIE DESTROYER Comic Book

Tomorrow we will be posting a podcast interview with Mark Thompson (owner of www.devilsduedigital.com) and wanted to take the opportunity to share his current project with all of my friends (that’s you).

With a group of hand selected artists, Mark has launched the first in a number of creator owned titles through Kickstarter. The first title; MONSTRA: ZOMBIE DESTROYER! is up and running right now.

MONSTRA: ZOMBIE DESTROYER will be published as a full color graphic novel containing 125 pages of Flesh Eating, Zombie Killing, ax wielding, awesomeness!

The Press Release for the Comic gives the following Synopsis to the story:

The story involves a sentient zombie and her slacker boyfriend at the outset of the end of days. The government has contained an initial outbreak of infected undead . A widespread zombie outbreak has been averted through military involvement and the

JLL 003 Can I Fund My Project with Kickstarter

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In this episode Jason talks about if you can fund your project on Kickstarter. It comes from a question he received from Jarett, a listener of the podcast. He recently ran an unsuccessful Kickstarter campaign and wanted to know some tips on getting his comic crowd funded.

Jason covers why you should use Kickstarter, asses what it takes to reach your funding goals, how much money you will need, and lessons he has learned from his experience.

Thank you to the following for 5 Star Reviews:

• Jason Van Orden at internetbusinessmastery.com
• Darlene at tunes.apple.com/us/podcast/her-next-step-business-coach/id608009659
• Michael Corley a Cartoonist at www.VoxBoxComics.com

Question came from Jarett who does a webcomic with his brother Josh at crasssophisticate.com

Kickstarter Projects Mentioned

Last Audi and Iron Man 3 Competition Update

If you haven’t heard about Iron Man 3 and Audi competition you should visit the past articles at:

http://www.jasonloveslife.com/update-on-iron-man-3-and-audi-team-up-for-a-cool-contest/

http://www.jasonloveslife.com/iron-man-audi-contest/

or Watch:

Recently two short how-to videos have been released today, giving step-by-step instructions on how to draw Tony Stark’s Audi R8 and Iron Man’s helmet,as a way to promote the competition.

These could come in handy if you are planning to enter the competition.

How-to-draw an Audi R8

Why Your WebComic needs to be Mobile friendly

When I first launched the Madman of Magic comic book I received several congratulations for finally launching (I had been hyping it for a month) and people wanted to let me know they loved the webcomic. In one of those emails I received the dreaded, “the comic book looks great, but the site doesn’t work on my phone”.

NOoooooooooo!

I had forgot to make sure the site was mobile friendly before launch. I quickly did some adjustments to the WordPress theme and did a little bit of adjustment on the coding, but I have it to a level where people can now read it on their phones. It isn’t the best mobile friendly user experience but I plan on fixing this sometime in the near future.

Why such a big deal about mobile?

It’s not often you get the opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a new trend, but it’s important to realize now that having your WebComic mobile friendly is still new enough to make it a bit of a novelty.

But beyond the novelty factor, it just makes good marketing sense.

Get your Website mentioned on the Podcast

We made it onto the “New and Noteworthy” Section of iTunes!!!

If you look right now (9:30 pm central time on April 19, 2013), you will see us about 20 rows down.

We are currently trying to get in the first 10 rows and you can help us get there.

It is really simple and as a thank you, we will mention your website in one of our upcoming episodes.

How to get your webcomic mentioned in our podcast

1. Go to iTunes

Help the podcast’s rankings

Hello Friends!

I want to thank everyone for the great feedback, suggestions, and encouragement around the new podcast. The response has been AMAZING!

A podcast on the business side of WebComics

How you can help us with i-tunes ranking

If you go to the podcast section of i-tunes and search “Jason Loves Life”, click on the podcast, and then subscribe, rate (5 stars is always great), and leave a text review, it will help us get ranked really high in i-tunes.

I figure many of you didn’t realize how i-tunes works or that doing this would help our ranking. Instead of leaving it up to chance, we decided to reach out to you.

We want to thank you again for the help and if you need anything from us, feel free to ask.

If you can’t find the podcast, you can try this link:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/jason-loves-life-podcast-helping/id638018312

then click on “view in itunes”.

Thanks for the help and all the support!

Your friends,
Leah, Jason, Everett, and Yada Love