Self Publishing Your Own Comic Book

Yesterday I talk about getting your comic book characters out in the public eye by self-publishing. Today I going to give you some ideas on how to go about doing that.

Depending on whether you want to go digital or hard copy there may be a printing cost involved. If you go digital there are a couple of ways you can go. You can go the PDF route and publish your comic book as a downloadable PDF document. You publish your comic as an online book by showing the pages of your book as web pages on your website.

If you decide to go hard copy you will be looking at printing cost. There are a copy of ways you can do hard copy publishing. Lets look at the magazine hard copy. With this option you will need to find a print company that can print comic books. There are several online that specialize in it just do a search for comic book printers and you will see them.

Another hard copy option is comics on CD or DVD. This also counts as a digital option. You can do this a couple of ways. You can put your pages on the CD or DVD in a numbered order and the reader can click on the pages to read them in order. Another option is to set your pages as a slide show. Once your comic book CD is set up you can have it printed at a CD printer or you can do it yourself from your own computer and printer.

To sell your self published comics you can do it on your own website or a website that specialize in selling comics like Comic Space. This applies for both digital and hard copies. For hard copies you can also approach comic shops to see if they are willing to sell your comics there. You can offer them 30% to 50% of the sell price.

This should get you started on self-publishing your own comic and getting your comic book characters out in the world. If you have any questions leave a comment and I will try to answer them. Or just leave a comment and let me know what you think of this post or the blog in general.

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Check out my comic book characters art videos.

My Hugh Jackman Wolverine Drawing

My Martian Manhunter Painting

My Three Jokers Painting

Painting The Scarlet Witch

Green Lantern Abin Sur Commission Painting

I recently did my third Green Lantern commission. This one was a bit more involved than the others and featured the meeting of Abin Sur and Hal Jordan. For those who don't know who Abin Sur is, he is the Green Lantern that gave Hal Jordan his ring.

This painting takes place when Hal Jordan, after being summoned by Abin’s ring finds Abin Sur dying in his spaceship and Abin gives Hal the ring.

The Green Lantern is one of my favorite comic book characters to do. I like the costume and the things the ring can do. My favorite Green Lantern artist of all time is Gil Kane.

Below is the painting from pencil to finished painting.

Pencil On Canvas


First Stage: Flat Acrylic Colors


Second Stage: Background Oils


Final Stage: The Characters Done And Painting Signed And Dated


I hope you enjoyed this look at this Green Lantern commission. If you would like to have a commission done e-mail me at mbridges54@gmail.com

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Check out my comic book characters art videos.

My Hugh Jackman Wolverine Drawing

My Martian Manhunter Painting

My Three Jokers Painting

Painting The Scarlet Witch

My Three Jokers Painting Up For Bid On eBay

I have put my comic book character painting of The Three Jokers up for sell on eBay. You can go there to purchase it if you’re interested.

This painting features the three most famous portrayals of Batman’s wackiest nemesis, The Joker as portrayed by Jack Nicholson from the first Tim Burton Batman movie, Cesar Romero from the 60’s Batman series and Heath Ledger from the last Batman movie, The Dark Knight.

Below is a video of how I created The Three Jokers paintings. I hope you enjoy it.



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Remember if you would like to have a painting done of any of your favorite comic book characters let me know by e-mailing me at mbridges54@gmail.com.

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Re-Opening And My Heath Ledger Joker Painting

Today I want to announce the re-opening of this blog. I haven’t posted here in about a year and a half, but this blog still gets a good amount of people coming to it. I have still been doing book character commissions as well as works that I just wanted to do.

The Joker painting on the left is one I felt I just had to do. I loved Heath Ledgers portrayal of the Joker and I felt this painting captured the essence of the part. The Joker is one of my favorite comic book villains and I plan to do more works on him. As a matter of fact I am working on another right now that I will be posting here.

Look for me to be doing some different and exciting things this time around. Right now at my Superhero Portraits site I’m running an e-mail auction for the Heath Ledger Joker painting. I just wanted to experiment with this concept. If you have the time or want to bid go check it out.

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If you would to know how I do my paintings check out my How I Do My Comic Book Superhero Paintings video.