I've been looking in a lackadaisical way into products for my comics. It's not a high priority for me yet but I want to sell products much more related to the comic than the standard T-shirts, mousepads, and coffee cups.
Being a Smith by trade I can reproduce the various items of Jewelry my characters wear. That'll probably be my first offering, copies of their bangles and rings. But that's going to be an extremely high-end product for most webcomic readers, even made of silver Zifeera's Bangle is a massive design that will probably cost a couple hundred dollars. A gold version would be close to a thousand.
And since I do write primarily action comics I had the notion of finding a company to produce action figures for them, posable minis with a kung-fu grip perhaps. Does anybody know of a company which would make such a thing?
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Action Figures?
I've been looking in a lackadaisical way into products for my comics. It's not a high priority for me yet but I want to sell products much more related to the comic than the standard T-shirts, mousepads, and coffee cups.
Being a Smith by trade I can reproduce the various items of Jewelry my characters wear. That'll probably be my first offering, copies of their bangles and rings. But that's going to be an extremely high-end product for most webcomic readers, even made of silver Zifeera's Bangle is a massive design that will probably cost a couple hundred dollars. A gold version would be close to a thousand.
And since I do write primarily action comics I had the notion of finding a company to produce action figures for them, posable minis with a kung-fu grip perhaps. Does anybody know of a company which would make such a thing?
That's a very interesting idea, Moon, but I seriously don't know how you would go about doing this. I've thought about it myself several times. A friend has made some statuettes of two of my characters before, but they look like when he drew them for his last guest story. I mean, real action figures, we're talking alot of money there. If you do hear something, please let us all know!
I know Syke of Alien Dice is putting some money into making some figures from her comic through these people: http://www.teamfrog.com/figures.htm