Tag: Patreon

Last Wednesday and Thursday, Patreon told their creators and patrons they were changing their fee structure.  It’s been a fiasco.  They’ve been silent since updating their blog post on the fee changes and it’s...

The creative community is still waiting on Patreon to officially address the new policy of passing transaction fees on to the patrons (backers), but it appears that co-founder and figurehead Jack Conte has been...

Seems like it’s a season of change in Crowdfunding.  Last week, we talked with Spike about Drip, Kickstarter’s answer to Patreon and now Patreon’s announced a change in their billing structure. Announced yesterday to creators...

§ Nice art: People on my twitter feed were excited by this tweet! https://twitter.com/ErenUnten/status/854038476513173507 Heroic Rey and cheerin' Chewie! Who wouldn't like that? Artist Eren Unten has done quite a few modern Little Golden Books and she...

Over the last decade, Janelle Asselin has become one of the most influential and progressive figures in comics.  Last year, she set off a journalistic firestorm after writing an article that detailed Scott Allie's long...

The massively successful global webcomics portal LINE Webtoon and crowdfunding site Patreon are teaming up tp help fund more webcomics in several innovative ways, it was announced today. A Patreon button has has integrated...

We lost another one yesterday. David Harper of the oft-linked to and discussed Sktchd sitecalled it quits after a year of think pieces, surveys, podcasts and charts. He'll continue doing his podcast after a break for the warm Alaskan summer, but those long investigations are a thing of the past. The reasons were the usual: burnout from writing about what you love.

I first became a fan of Jim Zub’s because his tutorials on the comics making process, so it’s fitting that my next interview with him is about a platform that lets people who have enjoyed that content support him financially....

Jason Shiga, known for his multi-path comics such as Meanwhile, is scheduled to publish his next title, Demon, with First Second in October 2016. It say's "Book 1" in the catalog, and given the...

Irish cartoonist NHOJ (John Cullen) has been posting his Daily Comics for over 650 days at this point. They are often funny, sometimes poignant and always beautiful and entertaining. Here’s a look at his...

Rarely do I get to learn the story of people who have moved away from the comics industry. Artist and creator Thomas Boatwright is an interesting example of someone who did the comics thing for...

After making some noises about it for a while, Tom Spurgeon has joined the crowdfunding world for his award-winning Comics Reporter site with a Patreon that is up to over $500 in less than...