Bloomin Faeries gone?

[Kevin_Generic]

Originally Posted by SoylentOrange

Five hundred bucks per strip? He's either using a different definition of "Strip" than I'm used to, or else completely out of his gourd.

Based by "Let's get this puppy financed, one strip at a time (starting with #410, where we left off)." it sounds to be like each individual page is going to be $500.

[Blake Isaac Gordon]

Originally Posted by SoylentOrange

Five hundred bucks per strip? He's either using a different definition of "Strip" than I'm used to, or else completely out of his gourd.

So he wants to pay himself: 59.00 per hour (biased upon a standard 8.5 H work day) which you might be saying WHOA! (That’s way more than what a Chemical Engineer or a Nurse or a Computer Network Architect makes!)

Compare that to the cost of a modern day comic budgets:
Pencil Art $100-400
Ink Art $75-300
Lettering $40-50
Coloring $100-150
Total: $315 - 900
His Total $500 (His rank in the range: 32 percentile of the asking rate for a standard comic book budget... I got this value using the excel PERCENTAGERANK function with a 3 in significance)

Then my point is:
DAMN good for him. He seems to be making the bread using INDIEGOGO, which from what I understand lets you keep any of the money collected unlike Kickstarter where its all or nothing. So Rock on my content creator rock on.

(Seriously, his art is really good even if you consider it cartoon-y)

[qzar9999]

I know for a fact that you can get a quality artist to do ONE FREAKING COMIC PAGE for substantially less than $500, from both personal and professional experience.

I don't even think Bokuman charges that much, and he's bloody brilliant.

[BillPratt]

Way to go, moron. Now that you've let the cat out of the bag he'll jack his rates.

[thelurker]

Originally Posted by BillPratt

Way to go, moron. Now that you've let the cat out of the bag he'll jack his rates.

The cat???

[Kevin_Generic]

I really personally prefer when crowd funding campaigns break down exactly where the money form the pledge goes. I'm wondering how much Wondollar (the artist for the series) charges per page.

[thelurker]

Originally Posted by Kevin_Generic

I'm wondering how much Wondollar (the artist for the series) charges per page.

Why don't you ask him? He's on Deviantart.

[Vengeance1701]

If people are paying it, let them. Seriously. Business is as business does. If people don't find it of worth, they won't pay it. Whether or not it's foolish depends entirely on perspective.

[qzar9999]

Originally Posted by Vengeance1701

If people are paying it, let them. Seriously. Business is as business does. If people don't find it of worth, they won't pay it. Whether or not it's foolish depends entirely on perspective.

I mean, I'm not gonna disparage anyone who wants to support this. If it's not my money, IDGAF what someone does with it.

I'm just saying I know for a fact that BF isn't and never was a comic that costs $500 a page to produce. I'd be highly skeptical that it cost even half that.

[Vengeance1701]

And? That fact adds nothing, really. He wants to make that sort of profit margin, let him.

[BillPratt]

Money's only a problem should he start storing it with Mossack Fonseca.

[qzar9999]

I just feel like people should know the score, is all. That's a pretty steep markup.