How did we get here (part 1)

Well there have some questions about how the money given to Exiern works. So I thought I would go through it in excruciation detail.

The facts:

Half of all money collected contractually goes to Studio Boom. So the website takes in $600 I am only able to spend $300 of it.

What do I do with the money I collect? Well it takes $135 per month to run this comic. That is the cost of hosting plus commissioning Studio Boom to do 4-5 comics a month. Studio boom gets an up front price of $25 per comic on top of half of the donations.

All money over $135 is reinvested into the comic in some way. For example this month I commissioned two works a wallpaper to be posted soon and 4 page members reward comic for a grand total of $200. In addition I am starting a new comic Exiern Dark Reflections. The first page of that comic has cost $75 and I will be spending another $70 before the month is out. On the administrative side of things, I had to incorporate Exiern this month for tax reason and that cost $100. By the way this April 15 is going to suck for me this year.

Last month I collected $753. It was a very good month. Those of you with lighting math skills can figured out I earned 376.50 and spent 480 for a grand total of -103.50. This has been the standard way of things for Exiern since I started commissioning Studio Boom. I always spend more on the comic that I take in. The more I get in donations the more I can commission and produce. I don’t want to make money from this website. I just want to make comics.

What I want to do with collected donations:

Well first on the priority list is redoing past comics. I have set the goal to have the archive completely redone by the end of January. It won’t be the full archive but only a few select comics to connect the beginning to the ending. At long last I will stop getting letter “complementing me” on how I got ride of that lousy first artist who was a total hack and drew like a retarded 3rd grader. What these people who send me these letters don’t realize is that the original artist was also ugly and a poopyhead.

After that Exiern will move to a twice a week schedule. And hopefully to a 3 times a week schedule after that. This is of course dependent on paying a competitive wage to Studio Boom and that is depend on the amount of money the website takes in.

Tomorrow I’ll post about why Exiern has a members area at all.