Comics and Illustration: Present Your Editorial Project
How does the publishing world work?
A course by Sergio Bleda , Comic Book Author and Professional Illustrator
About the video: How does the publishing world work?
Overview
“It is important that you know how the publishing market works. I will tell you what percentages of the price of the comic are awarded to each part (author-publisher-distribution-bookstores) so that you are clear about what you are going to face when you decide to become a professional. Advances, royalties... It all depends on production and sales.”
In this video lesson Sergio Bleda addresses the topic: How does the publishing world work?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Comics and Illustration: Present Your Editorial Project. Learn to professionalize your comic art ready for publishing by discovering all the stages of constructing an editorial project.
Partial transcription of the video
“How does the publishing world work? It is important that you know how the publishing world works, what is the percentage that each of the parties takes, the author, the publisher, the distribution and the bookstore, and, above all, you must bear in mind that all this is based in two very important elements, which are your level of production and sales. I'm going to do a little drawing to make everything a little clearer. This is the money that comes out of the sale of comics and is distributed as follows: Normally 30% is usually for the bookseller. 20% It's for the distributor. 40% goes to ...”
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Course summary for: Comics and Illustration: Present Your Editorial Project
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Category
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Areas
Comic, Editorial Illustration, Marketing, Portfolio Development, Traditional illustration
Sergio Bleda
A course by Sergio Bleda
Sergio Bleda began his career as a cartoonist and scriptwriter in 1991, making comic strips for the regional weekly Crónica; since then he has evolved his craft as a cartoonist and illustrator, excelling in the horror genre, although he also does humor, children's, adventure, and erotic works.
He has worked for magazines such as El Víbora and Kiss Comix, and with international publishers such as Casterman and Soleil, with which he has published series such as NSA and Dolls Killer He has also been awarded the prize for best illustrated album in the I Edition of the Carlos Giménez Awards for Cinco Relatos Apasionados, an erotic book with explicit content written by Ricardo Esteban and illustrated by Bleda.
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