Leaving gocomics (Patreon)

If you are one of the 16 people who follow the comic on "GoComics", you may have seen that I will no longer be featured on GoComics. And you may be asking "WHY??? WHY GOD WHY!!?" Here's your answer.

First, some backstory...  I  want to make it clear that this is 100% my decision. I  emailed GoComics and was like, "I wanna get out of my contract" and they were like, "Sure!" 

And over the years, my experience with GoComics and everybody at GoComics has been totally positive. They're great, they paid me (which is way more than Webtoons, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr has ever done), and they paid me more than like $0.35 (which is more than Tapas or my website's ads)

So with that in mind, let's dive into the "WHY??"

1st) I  had a contract with them, which always made me a little uncomfortable. It wasn't like a sneaky contract. It was very simply worded, and the terms were super reasonable. But there were a few things that I wasn't thrilled with, regarding publishing. Once again, these weren't unreasonable things, but they were things that would POTENTIALLY limit options down the road.

B) While the money was nice, it wasn't even close to a living wage or anything. A few months of current Patreon support matches a year of GoComics.

3) I couldn't see the value that I was providing THEM. I'm a weird little niche webcomic. They specialize in big broad cartoons. So my audience never got very big. Part of my contract meant that I got a minimum amount per quarter, if I didn't meet a certain view count threshold. And I never met the threshold.

And yet, they never seemed to care. Which always confused me. and now we're getting a little conspiratorial and looping back to my unease with the contract. Why would they pay me a set amount, despite not making much money at all in ad revenue? Is it because GoComics is built to cast a big net, hoping that at least a few comics will make it big, and then they can make the real money from publishing, due to contracts? Maybe.

Fb/4st) There are times I've considered going on hiatus, drastically reducing the number of comics I put out (for a limited time or otherwise), changing my release schedule, or even ending this comic and starting new with something else. And I want to have the option to do that, without clearing it with a company first.

So that's why I left GoComics.