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I get that, I'm just querying that a line should be drawn quite so directly between "you don't have any customers" and "you can't make any money" because a simi

I get that, I'm just querying that a line should be drawn quite so directly between "you don't have any customers" and "you can't make any money" because a similar point could be made about even successful crowdfunding campaigns on Kickstarter. Those people aren't customers because there's no guarantee they're ever going to receive anything. (See my other comment, above I think, about Patreon - you need tens of thousands of subscribers, from what I can tell, to get even a fairly basic level of income from it.)

egypturnash 9y ago
My Patreon numbers, roughly: 51 patrons, $100 per page of comics I draw. On a productive month I can get eight pages drawn, which is currently about 2/3 of my rent. It would be all of my rent if I wasn't living alone in a two-bedroom Seattle apartment. (Yes there are other sources of income.) When I'm regularly drawing comics and posting them for free (I haven't been lately due to the last KS taking forever + some Life events) I see a slow climb in the number of patrons; it's been pretty much steady for the year or so I haven't been getting much in the way of comics done. I think it took maybe a year at most to rise to that level; I wasn't building my fanbase from scratch or learning my craft, so that helped a lot. I estimate that getting back in the groove of posting pages regularly would see my whole rent covered in six months to a year.