ComixLaunch: Crowdfunding for Writers, Artists & Self-Publishers on Kickstarter... and Beyond!

By Tyler JamesBusiness Education Arts Visual Arts

ComixLaunch: Crowdfunding for Writers, Artists & Self-Publishers on Kickstarter... and Beyond! episodes

May 10 Best of ComixLaunch: The Most & Least Valuable Habits for Creators
Two habits. One is extremely common among creators and not only worthless… but actually will cost you. The other, far less common, though simple to practice, and yet is extremely valuable. Tyler unpacks them both...
42 min
May 03 Best of ComixLaunch: Why and How to Do a Kickstarter Postmortem
What’s the difference between pros and amateurs? When the pros finish playing a game, they study film… they examine what worked, what didn’t, and what they can do better next time. The same goes for...
1 hr 6 min
April 26 Best of ComixLaunch: Your Foundation for a Large and Loyal Audience
You’re ready to build a large audience to launch incredible projects to on Kickstarter and beyond, you need to put a solid foundation in place. Tyler gives you that foundation in this podcast. Hey, Tyler...
50 min
April 19 Best of ComixLaunch: The Power of Paying It Forward
Why paying it forward pays off for comic creators and crowdfunders. Hey, Tyler James from ComixLaunch here, with a BEST OF Episode ready to roll for you. These BEST OF episodes are brought to you...
34 min
April 12 Best of ComixLaunch: Getting Chosen vs Choosing Yourself
In this Best of ComixLaunch session, Tyler looks at examples of getting chosen in comics vs choosing yourself. Hey, Tyler James from ComixLaunch here, with a BEST OF Episode ready to roll for you. These...
53 min
April 05 Best of ComixLaunch: Is Your Project Worthy of a Kickstarter?
In this Best of ComixLaunch session, Tyler discusses whether a project must be “worthy” of crowdfunding? Hey, Tyler James from ComixLaunch here, with a BEST OF Episode ready to roll for you. These BEST OF...
35 min
March 29 Time for a Break
This all began with a declaration of war on the number 49.95%. That number was the success rate of comic book projects on Kickstarter as of May 16, 2015, the day I first turned on...
24 min
March 22 New Kickstarter Feature Review: Polls in Update
Kickstarter added a new feature to their updates, now supporting polls. In this short session, Tyler will break down the new feature, discuss its strengths and limitations, how creators might use in upcoming campaigns, and end with some suggestions for improvement to better support how creators actually use polls during launches.
23 min
March 15 ComixLaunch Pro Spotlight: Overcoming Obstacles and Finding Success with David Chaucer La Forest
In this session's ComixLaunch Pro spotlight, Clay Adams interviews David Chaucer La Forest, an African-American disabled veteran, award-winning poet/author, and founder of Asani Entertainment, about building an Afrocentric shared fantasy universe rooted in positive representation.
43 min
March 08 New Kickstarter Feature Alert: Adding Free Items to Backer Pledges
In this session, Tyler trains creators on Kickstarter’s new feature for gifting free items to backers by adding existing reward items to individual backers or filtered groups via the Backer Report, with some UI quirks requiring multiple clicks and scrolling.
46 min