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A few weeks ago I discovered that an erotic french publishing house made promotional t-shirts using my comic!




(it was a mixup, they apologized , and only ten were printed but it gave me a big fright!) Maybe watermarks aren't a bad idea?

Within 2 days of my posting my first comic, I had people asking me if they could buy the shirt the main character was wearing.

I think I will actually produce the comic for a little while before I jump into trying to make money off my hobby. I may do custom prints eventually, as taking them to a printer is dirt cheap.

I love webcomic merch, especially tshirts. 50% of the tshirts I own are webcomic tshirts. My only problem is shipping to Canada.

oh oh! I wanna see

Vorticus wrote:Hehe, just remembered that I had an idea to sell aprons like devon is wearing. So a white apron with the words "Duck and Cover" on the front.

i'd buy that, i'm in the market for an interesting apron.

faub wrote: I'm also looking at making resin figures, but I'm having a brain freeze making the original clay models. I need to try out making a mold at some point. It can be done.

For the original clay models, I suggest using green stuff. It's an epoxy compound that you mix together and hardens with time. This means you can work on one part without squishing another. It's what's used to make prototypes for those small pewter figurines you see in stores. It can take a veeeery high level of detail. Love the stuff.

My problem with resin figurines is, again, bubbles and finding ways to make a good reusable mold. Tried latex, but it didn't work too well. Alumilite's molds and epoxy is freakin' awesome, but I still have trouble with bubbles in the resin itself.

I don't have merch, because that would be alot of work, and having a comic in the first place is enough work for me. If I did have merch though, it would have to be something small and cheap, like buttons or stickers.

I think shirts wouldn't work so well for some reason. I don't know why.

I just started a T-shirt store through E-shirt this week. It's kind of cool, but I haven't gone though all the features yet (for example, I'm not sure how to check and see if anybody's buying your stuff, apart from actually getting the royalties).

Glarryg