POD comics at comixpress.com

I have trouble finding PODs that are reasonable for comics, if you know of others I would be interested to hear about them.

I priced up a standrad sort of comic with 28 pages and got a quote of $20 to set up and $1.63 per issue. I must say that so long as shipping is reasonably priced that looks like a good deal.

Over at digitalwebbing.com, in their Forums section (a formidable comic book forum) they have good things to say about comixpress.com. I haven't used them m'self, though.

Brian,

Check with Tim Demeter who does the Reckless Life webcomic on Graphic Smash. I believe he's run some printed collections of his comic through Comixpress.

I know a lot of people who go through Lulu.com for comics, but comixpress seems to be catching up. I haven't tried them myself, but I don't recall hearing anything dramatically bad, either.

I queried Cold Cut Distribution about comixpress, and the use of a comixpress ad. The use of it, even the one on the back cover, has no effect on Cold Cut's decision on if they will distribute the comic. Now Diamond Distributors has different rules and I haven't checked them yet.

As for me I plan on releasing a graphic novel with a limited distribution, so Cold Cut is who I will go through.

I would be very curious to see what Diamond says about it. They tend to be a pretty large distributor, and the one that I guess I would pay most attention to.

PeeDee said:

I would be very curious to see what Diamond says about it. They tend to be a pretty large distributor, and the one that I guess I would pay most attention to.

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True...depending upon the size of your distribution area. If you plan on selling issues in the thousands and incidentally have thousands to spend than yeah Diamond is your best bet. Although if you plan on having a more modest distribution than Cold Cut or Last Gasp would be a good bet.

While it is true that most comics will not sell that many issues, and we all want to be successful; success can turn into a bad thing really fast. The example is that if you only print a couple hundred comics and only sell 150 than you are fine, but if you only print a couple hundred comics and Diamond orders 1000 then you are in a bit of a situation.

In the end it depends on where you stand as far as finances. Personally I am going the small route to test the waters, and so that I don't overwelm my already straped finances.

Also...Cold Cut is a backorder distributor. This means that they will carry backorders so that even if you go with Diamond, you might consider Cold Cut for your unsold issues.