Forging Our Own Paths In The New Emerging Online Comics Self-Publishing Market

Where I see no hope in the outdated traditional publishing industry, I see MUCH creative, storytelling, format, stylistic, and economic hope in the webcomics self-publishing, digital comic-manga, and Kindle industry. I check comicfury.com fairly frequently to see what the next fresh new (inexperienced and youthful, but still very innovative and archetypal) take on comics is going to be. Well, at least with many of them anyway. Webcomics vastly simplify the comics publishing process. In webcomics all it takes to publish your work to a large audience is the push of a button and a toggling of your dashboard to the right settings and format of JPG Files. While yes, some of these comics may look "crap" or "amateurish" I no longer feel that is the main point that needs to be made anymore. The point is a lower barrier to entry means a more diverse workplace and industry with a wider variety of books and comics, and yes, many of the comics published on Comic Fury would do well on Kindle Digital Press if they went for it. No matter how you look at it, indie comics, manga, webcomics, and self publishing or a combination of all those things and what they are reaching for is a very important vision of establishing something new. A new comics model. A new way of drawing and publishing comics for the world to see (not just the United States), which can also lead to new models for doing business in the comics industry (once again, I'm thinking of Amazon KindleDigital Press. It's worth figuring out! And that's a whole hell of a lot more than can be said for the intentions and aims of traditional comics mainstream publishing. If the secret comics club isn't going to let you become an after school member, it's YOUR job to start your own business model, run and supported by you and people with similar backgrounds as you, and build your own empire. Kind of like what apps are doing to disrupt traditional Computer Software and Operating Systems. The same outsiders-taking-over-the-industry movement can apply to the old structure of comics, and actually end up replacing it, if enough people managed to see the incentive and potential and take the initiative with their work and career, take themselves seriously enough as artists, writers, auteurs, and creators to forge their own path in this new Millennium of comics. Because believe me, the mainstream of comics...SUCKS. No one is breaking in who's worth a damn. No one in the "secret fraternity" is letting us do that, so it's our job to do our own thing.