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MONETIZING EVERY MOMENT OF WAKING EXISTENCE ON INSTAGRAM (WHAT COULD GO WRONG?)
This week we talked about navigating social media to promote your work and make money as a cartoonist—from networking and building your audience, to avoiding burnout and fielding harsh feedback.
The internet can be a lovely way to connect with friends and family, make new connections, support fellow cartoonists, and publish your comics. There are great benefits to serializing a webcomic or routinely sharing your work.
But social media can also be a source of pressure, discouragement, and creative doubt.
Do you need to move to NYC and gain a million followers on Instagram to be a commercially successful artist? Do you have to work tirelessly on gaming the algorithm to get your work seen? Do you have to monetize your comics at all?
Read on (or listen in) for answers to questions like these and more!