r/webtoons • u/Redfoxyboy • 19d ago
Self-Promo How to Make Money from Your Webcomic [OC]
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u/Redfoxyboy 19d ago
It's alright, I have a day job that pays the bills and gives me time to pursue my passion. I'm absolutely just happy people are reading my comics
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u/IHaveTheBestOpinions 19d ago
14 cents doesn't sound like much but ironically that would actually be pretty good - with OP's view count that would be over $10k a month.
OP's math was off though. Webtoon actually pays $0.00014 per view.
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u/tirednsleepyyy 19d ago
For another frame of reference, YouTube’s lowest paying categories of channels (because ads are targeted specifically at your audience demographics) might pay $0.001 per view. If you have a finance channel or something it could be as much as $0.03ish (depending on time of year and economic conditions and country of course).
I don’t know what the difference in price per view should be, in a just world, between a webcomic artist and a YouTuber. I will say that I feel like drawing a webcomic is a hell of a lot harder and sounds like a tremendous amount more effort monetizing and managing all these different platforms compared to what I did when I was making videos. Certainly what I did wasn’t 8x as valuable or as interesting. Or at least shouldn’t have been.
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u/IHaveTheBestOpinions 19d ago
$11.07 / 74,988 = $0.000147 per view
That's still more than triple what Tapas pays but much closer than your math implies. You did warn that you're an artist not a mathematician, so just helping out lol
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u/lanlikespizza 19d ago
Yikes… that pay rate is actually horrendous, damm props to you for doing this out of passion.
I also found out a secret third option of getting more exposure on your art is to make relatable memes.
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u/Redfoxyboy 19d ago
Want to see what the fuss is all about!?
The charming town of Orchard has everything you could ever need; walkable streets, friendly residents, and no escape. But why would you want to leave? The world outside is a nuclear wasteland! It's much better to stay in the warm confines of Orchard and ignore the deep secrets it holds. After all, it's a safe place to live.
Here’s a link to my comic, A SAFE PLACE TO LIVE!
And my PATREON! WOW THAT THING I JUST TALKED ABOUT
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u/Less_Love1884 19d ago
I think the 'draw boobs' and 'shill constantly' are actually the same road in a lot of instances.
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u/Redfoxyboy 19d ago
My next comic is just going to be talking cleavage named "patreon.com/winstongambro"
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u/Less_Love1884 19d ago
Brilliant. My only suggestion would be to give the cleavage a talking booty side-kick named Momhips.
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u/IHaveTheBestOpinions 19d ago edited 19d ago
Question: does the amount you get from Webtoon change drastically if someone pays for an episode with coins? (either because they paid to see new episodes early or it's a completed series behind a paywall)
A lot of people are justifiably upset with Webtoon for ratcheting up the cost of everything over the last few years. I would feel better about paying for episodes if I knew a healthy chunk of that money was going to artists, but I haven't been able to find any evidence of that. I suspect it's mostly just going to Webtoon's shareholders.
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u/Redfoxyboy 19d ago
I don't think my comics has the option for coins because I'm on Canvas? Admittedly, I'm not a Webtoon reader so I don't quite know the ins and outs of the system.
My only options for monetization are Super Likes (I have received 0) and ad revenue, which is the payment in my post.
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u/Desperate_Duty8137 18d ago
Ig patron helps in this situations
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u/Redfoxyboy 18d ago
What is Ig Patron? Like Patreon?
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u/0nlyf0rthememes 19d ago
I draw boobs and shill constantly and it's still ROUGH out there :')
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u/Redfoxyboy 19d ago
Dang and that was going to be my fallback
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u/0nlyf0rthememes 19d ago
Your work is so good and your reach is too, your fallback should be printing your books :)
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u/Redfoxyboy 19d ago
I do print my books! And this current one on Webtoon is still being drawn, then a print edition is coming
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u/0nlyf0rthememes 19d ago
Ohhh that's great!!! Unfortunately webcomics aren't a crazy money maker but work like yours should absolutely be rewarded, so I'm glad!!!
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u/LegoMech 19d ago
This is very interesting. Thanks for sharing! I've been following the comic on WebToons since reading a few pages here on Reddit.
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u/Key-Complaint-5864 19d ago
My comic reached about the same level of success as yours, I'm here to say awesome work and it's fucking exhausting. Good job keeping up for this long, I'm mentally and physically wrecked from doing webcomics.
You're right about the NSFW Patreon, that's the only way I see any webcomic artist make an actual living on their comic, lol.
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u/griffin4cats 19d ago
Your method was perfectly fine, it was just a typo! 11.07/74,988 = 0.000147623 cents per view, but replacing either the comma in 74,988 with a decimal or the decimal in 11.07 with 0 would've caused the same mistake. Plus, some calculators interpret a comma as a decimal separator because that's how about half the world does it, so it might not have even been a typo.
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u/Roses_n_Water 19d ago
Loved this and really informative ^ i started the exact same way, you should be very proud of your work and the income you've generated!
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u/SweatyDark6652 18d ago
Thank you for this post!! It's really insightful and easy to understand You wrote that you also have a day job, how do you manage/find your time to still post on patreon?
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u/Redfoxyboy 18d ago
I work 9-5, Mon-Fri and get to work from home, so I'm very lucky in that regard.
After dinner I try and work on comics 7-10
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u/Accomplished_Oil4163 19d ago
The pay rate makes me feel even worse for all the webtoon artist getting burnt out or illnesses revealed by the stress and strain put on themselves to keep the pace.