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What separates the hobbyist from the pros when it comes to creating comics and graphic novels? If, after all your expenses are added up, you're not turning a profit on your comic endeavors, does that mean you have an expensive hobby rather than a business? And is anyone actually making any money in this business? In this session, Tyler breaks down 7 somewhat predictable stages a creator with a comic book based business can expect to go through on the road to profitability.

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Cartoonist Ryan Claytor returns to the ComixLaunch Podcast to share tips and strategies for turning your downtime into funds. While working through fulfillment on his last Kickstarter, Ryan found himself needing to recharge with sketches... but a few months later, he's turned his artistic recovery fun project into an awesome product.

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Jellop is a marketing company laser focused on helping creators overachieve their Kickstarter goals by running highly targeted paid traffic campaigns during their launch. In this session, Tyler chats with Jellop's Customer Outreach Manager Noah Kinsey about paid traffic strategy for higher level crowdfunding.

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Join writer Clay Adams and artist Mick Beyers, creators of the new Lovecraftian one-shot DreamQuest from Fried Comics, for a discussion about leaning in creatively to the type of projects best suited for the Kickstarter audience.

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Over the past few years, Jack Holder has successfully ramped up his crowdfunding efforts, launching fantasy comics and prose on Kickstarter, while juggling the demanding duties of raising a newborn. In this interview, he joins Tyler for a candid discussion about balancing, work, life, and crowdfunding.

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ComixTribe just had it's most-backed, most funded Kickstarter launch ever with Ryan K Lindsay & Louie Joyce's A FISTFUL OF PAIN. In this Kickstarter postmortem recap, Tyler dives deep into the analytics to extract the key components that resulted in such a successful launch.

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Let's tackle the vexing topic of social media algorithms when it comes to using social platforms to promote your creative work. What's working now, what isn't and so much more!

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Tyler dusts off the ComixLaunch Mailbag to share some listener feedback on past episodes and answer great Kickstarter questions!

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Variant covers. Love 'em or hate 'em, they're a HUGE aspect of the comic creator crowdfunding experience and in this podcast, Tyler will take a deep dive on all things variants. What you learn here may shock you and inform your future comics crowdfunding strategy.

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Scott Serkland is the writer and artist of "Young and the Dead" a 1980s-themed kids vs zombie comic in the spirit of The Goonies meets Night of the Living Dead. In this interview, Tyler and Scott will discuss cartooning, mining the past for comic crowdfunding gold in the present, and Scott's line of geeky mad science themed comics and products!

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