I support 5 people on Patreon. A blog, two comics, and two web serials. The blog (Wait By Why) and one of the comics (SMBC) do any kind of creator-marketing; th

I support 5 people on Patreon. A blog, two comics, and two web serials. The blog (Wait By Why) and one of the comics (SMBC) do any kind of creator-marketing; the other comic (Kill Six Billion Demons) has rewards, but they're all KSBD content. Neither of the web serialists (Wildbow and Erraticerrata) have no rewards, and I've never seen anything from them. It's probably depended on content type; a lot of the value of some art - say, paintings - comes from the artist; whereas the value of the genre fiction is entirely contained within the fiction. So one group pretty much does need to market themselves as an artist, whereas the other just needs to market their art.