how can i publish a tabloid comic strip??

Question

i'd love to create a tabloid comic strip but i've no idea where to start. how do i go about doing this??

Answer 1

You've been beaten to it. Eddie Shah has had one for years.

Answer 2

If you already have the publication ready for prepress, and a credit card or lump sum ready to go for print, you would need to contact printers for price quotes based upon your format and quantity.

You'll need a printer that you can afford. The best prices I've ever found for interirior pages printed to custom size are on this site

http://www.qualitypress-denver.com/

When you do gloss cover, you may want to research other printing resources online to find the best printer for the quantity of the run and the price their offering.

Here's a site that networks several printing resources, and when you request a quote, you'll get several responses.

http://www.printindustry.com/

I'm not sure of Comixpress offers a tabloid size format, but their prices are such that to publish your work through them is only for vanity purposes anyway. Most of the "small press" services that cater to independent comic creators only allow the creators to recieve about 4% to 8% of the proceeds of their work. If you have the possibility of people buying your work in mass, you can handle coordinating the print jobs yourself and recieve as much as 40% -60% back from publication.

If your work has real commercial potential, you would want to have it copyrighted and submit it to several publishers. If they reject it, but you get positive responses from those in your immediate circle, you should seriously think about publising it independently, with no strings attatched.

What you may consider as an inexpensive alternative to starting out would be to format your comic for the web, or for PDF, and make it available to others that way, in order to gain the readers before you go thorugh the expensive process of printing.