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I’ve deleted the first sentence a few times as it’s pretty crass, but I’m going to say it: in short: “Yup, you’re fucked.”

This is the dilemma for artists working on the indie to small press level. Artists have more secondary routes of income they can and do pursue - you didn’t even mention original art, if there’s any. Writers basically have the books.

There’s two other main things I’ve seen writers do...

1) Selling printed out scripts. Occasionally with the actual comic in a more expensive special edition.2) Merch. Worth noting that a good T-shirt doesn’t necessarily just sell to people who know your book.

The former is only a little source of money. The latter is a big risk of cash, and is reliant (probably) on the artist doing a design.

In the long term, you get to have more books for sale as you’ll do more work as writing tends to be quicker, so that helps a little. But I wouldn’t say there’s parity - Artists, generally speaking, get a more money at cons. I also wouldn’t expect there to be parity. It’s just a side effect of the artefacts we create.