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The Young Protectors - Ch 3, Page 108 (Patreon)

Published:
2015-02-28 04:11:59
Edited:
2019-04-30 02:26:16
Imported:
2021-11

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Oh, no. Thanks to your amazing support, it’s been a great week on the Patreon. We’re now at $4,295/month — in just a little over a month, that’s well over 60% of the way to me being able to work on comics for y’all full-time! And only $205 away from the next Milestone Goal, something y’all have been asking for for a long time: a bookmarkable link to the Most Current Page of The Young Protectors! I am so grateful to all of you who have become Patrons so far! You are SUPER-HEROES! So! Looks like The Platinum Priestess hit her mark. And as promised, it does indeed seem to have distracted at least one Young Protectors team member. How hurt is Mitch? How will Spooky and the rest of the team react? And is this the beginning of the tables turning against our team? Tune in this Wednesday to find out! Hope to see you there!

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Anonymous

If Sircea kills Mitch...

Anonymous
>>363791

let's just hope duncan didn't lie when he discussed the under-age rules.

Anonymous

Oh crap... Fingers crossed Flyboy has some sort of invisibility as part of his superpowers too. :0/

Anonymous

Tough page and yet a great one. Dramatic, unpredictable in it's own special way and beautifully rendered. Pushed all my buttons, but still a wonderful piece of work. Thanks AW.

Anonymous

I still have sooo many feelings about this, oh my gosh! Cannot wait until Wednesday!

Anonymous

Nooice! Keep up the good work!

Anonymous

awesome artwork style

Anonymous

I like your art, it looks great

alexwoolfson
>>430006

Thank you! Adam DeKraker (pencils) and Vero Gandini (colors) do a really great job—I'm very lucky to work with them. :)

Anonymous

Love it!! Nice artwork and color.

Anonymous

How is $60K a year not enough for you to work on comics full-time? Just curious ;p

alexwoolfson
>>492158

Howdy Stev! Thank you for your question. I have a longer answer below, but here's a short one: at the moment, I'm not actually getting $60,000 a year to use to cover my personal expenses. After accounting for Patreon and credit card fees as well failed credit cards, Patreon just deposited $6300 in my bank account for this month. So, should that continue and you multiply that by 12, you actually get more than $60K a year, which is really awesome and makes me feel very grateful to my amazing readers. Of course, I pay my artists a real page rate and the production costs for 2 pages/week are around $3K/month, so my personal income from Patreon would really be about $3300/month (a little under $40K/year). And right now, because I'm working with a guest artist while my main artists build up a buffer of pages, I'm actually paying for 4 pages/week with that real page rate -- so, even though the Patreon support has made a huge difference in my life (really, it's been life changing), I'm sure you can see why I'm still having to say yes to some day job work right now. But I suspect that you didn't ask your question because you were concerned about the long hours I've been putting in balancing full-time work in comics with additional day job work (editing video projects that typically involve 10-12 hour days). Let me see if I can't get to the meat of your question. Let's say it really was $60K/year in my pocket which, even after taxes, would definitely be real money. Having that happen from my comics work alone is definitely one of my goals. If that were true, this would be the point where many creators would feel the need to be defensive. A good number of people believe that choosing to make your living as an artist should also include a vow of poverty. And I've seen many artists internalize this belief (particularly female creators) -- that if you have success, you need to show that *at best* you're just scraping by, that receiving anything more than that is just plain greedy. Even at $60K/year, I could make a case for that. I'm a full-on grown up who lives in the Bay Area who has people rely on him -- I have serious rent, health insurance, food, travel, and medical expenses; a mother in Assisted Living that's only going to get more expensive as her health declines, blah, blah, blah. **But here's the really important thing about my answer to your question:** I don't intend to just scrape by as an artist. I want to flourish. I want to show that making comics with diverse, LGBT heroes has real value, as much value as telling stories that feature straight, white male heroes. It's well-known that being a successful creator of genre entertainment featuring straight, white folk can be a path to riches. Of course not everyone gets there, but it's the brass ring that motivates many writers, directors and other artists who follow that muse. It is also a truth universally acknowledged that if you want to do the same thing with LGBT heroes, you'll have to set your sights much, much lower. Like, "vow of poverty" lower. Especially if you want to do that in comics. Well, I think that's a story like any other, and I think we can tell a different story. With the Internet, creators don't have to beg the permission of (often white, straight, male) gatekeepers to get their work in front of a worldwide audience. And with crowdfunding resources like Kickstarter and Patreon, you don't need to beg for funds from (often white, straight, male) rich people to make really high-quality content -- a bunch of regular folks can band together and do the same thing by combining much smaller payments. A huge reason I write what I write is to entertain, to enhance people's lives, to redefine who gets to be seen as a blockbuster "hero." But I also write to inspire other creators. I want lots of people telling stories with diverse LGBT heroes. I want some LGBT kid to see what I'm doing and not only think it's possible, but that it could even be a path to great personal success. I want that kid to feel just as excited about a life of creating awesome LGBT genre entertainment as the straight, white boy next door, dreaming their own dream of great success telling stories featuring heroes like himself. Will I be able to make that happen? Will I ever have the kind of success of a Robert Kirkman or Ed Brubaker or Neil Gaiman? (All of whom I admire and wish even more success to, BTW.) Well, only time will tell. But it's important to let you know that I'm going to try. I'm reaching for that brass ring. If you need the artists you enjoy to take a vow of poverty, I'm not your man. But if you like what I'm trying to do, if you think LGBT comics should have just as much value as the hetero stuff, if you want to see someone who creates work featuring LGBT heroes have blockbuster success just like his straight colleagues, then know that I'm going to try my best to make that happen. $60K/year might indeed be enough to get by making comics full time. But I'm not going to settle for just getting by. For myself and for the sake of any other creator who is watching what I'm doing, I'm shooting for the stars.

RAY DILLON

GOOD GRIEF! Congrats on the huge success. That's amazing! Man, I love Patreon. And this project looks stellar! Congrats again!

Anonymous

Wow I hope to get up to this point one day, awesome job! Keep it up!

Anonymous

Wow, very nice, i like your work ! the light effect makes the color is very successful ! I hope to get your level one day ;)

alexwoolfson
>>606362

Thank you, Mika! Adam DeKraker (pencils) and Veronica Gandini (colors) do amazing work. I feel very lucky to be able to work with them. :)

Anonymous

all your work is super keep up the spirit

Anonymous

Your art is amazing. It's actually because of this Patreon page that I became inspired and motivated enough to push on to my dream to become a cartoonist (and so I created my Bubbles and her Journey to Knighthood... still a fledgeling though, compared to yours). Hopefully one day, my comic and I will be as great as yours :) More power!

alexwoolfson
>>638384

Thank you, Faye! It always makes me happy to hear I inspired another creator. I wish you very good luck with your work! :)

Anonymous

Such awesome work man!

Anonymous

Awesome work! Looking forward to seeing more👍