as you can imagine, we get asked a lot of questions about what we've built. here are just a few of them.
comicbooked! is not just one thing, and it's not for just one type of person.
learn more at comicbooked.org
Your conversations deserve a room without strangers in it.
No public audience. No uninvited guests. No pile-ons. Just your peers, in a room that was built for the conversation you actually need to have.
The community is already gathering | What are you waiting for?
comicbooked.org
Your conversations deserve a room without strangers in it.
No public audience. No uninvited guests. No pile-ons. Just your peers, in a room that was built for the conversation you actually need to have.
The community is already gathering | What are you waiting for?
comicbooked.org
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4,000 comic book stores in North America
the indie comics library will give every title in the database immediate access to the ~400 shops using manage comics, comic shop assistant & comichub on day one
infrastructure indie creators have never had
help us build it patreon.com/c/comicbooked
4,000 comic book stores in North America
the indie comics library will give every title in the database immediate access to the ~400 shops using manage comics, comic shop assistant & comichub on day one
infrastructure indie creators have never had
help us build it patreon.com/c/comicbooked
Thanks so much to Heidi MacDonald for this write up in The Beat about our Indie Comics Library!
in case we got lost in the noise yesterday…
the patreon launched yesterday. four tiers starting at $5/mo. every dollar goes to building black-owned comic industry infrastructure like
the indie comics library and the community partners program
if you missed it, here it is
patreon.com/c/comicbooked
in case we got lost in the noise yesterday…
the patreon launched yesterday. four tiers starting at $5/mo. every dollar goes to building black-owned comic industry infrastructure like
the indie comics library and the community partners program
if you missed it, here it is
patreon.com/c/comicbooked
It's alive! err… I mean it’s live. the comicbooked! patreon is open
two years. self-funded. nearly 300 beta testers
today it becomes something the whole community holds together
four tiers starting at $5/mo
every dollar goes directly into building comic infrastructure
patreon.com/c/comicbooked
It's alive! err… I mean it’s live. the comicbooked! patreon is open
two years. self-funded. nearly 300 beta testers
today it becomes something the whole community holds together
four tiers starting at $5/mo
every dollar goes directly into building comic infrastructure
patreon.com/c/comicbooked
the comic book industry isn't broken. it's just fragmented. 4,000 comic book stores. 1.2 million comic artists. no database of black indie comics anywhere. no central place to connect any of it.
comicbooked.org built that place.
free to join | patreon launches april 7th
what are you waiting for?
the comic book industry isn't broken. it's just fragmented. 4,000 comic book stores. 1.2 million comic artists. no database of black indie comics anywhere. no central place to connect any of it.
comicbooked.org built that place.
free to join | patreon launches april 7th
what are you waiting for?
the industry needed it, so we built it.
comicbooked.org 4/4
you are a comic book fan. you want to read and support independent Black comic creators. you don’t know where to find them — except maybe artists alley during convention season, if you can get to any this year.
3/4
you are a comic book store owner. you’ve been open five years. you want to throw an all-day event for local comic shop day. you’d like to invite local writers and artists to table that day. you don’t know how to find any nearby comic book professionals.
2/4
“see a need, fill a need.” — bw
you are a comic book creator. you’ve been producing your own comics for years. you’ve met dozens of store owners and given them your contact info, ashcans and swag. your comic is only sold in one store on consignment. 🧵1/4
you are a comic book fan. you want to read and support independent Black comic creators. you don’t know where to find them — except maybe artists alley during convention season, if you can get to any this year.
3/4
you are a comic book store owner. you’ve been open five years. you want to throw an all-day event for local comic shop day. you’d like to invite local writers and artists to table that day. you don’t know how to find any nearby comic book professionals.
2/4
and we're committing 20% of library-specific revenue back to verified creators every quarter.
first database to ever do that.
this is preservation. this is infrastructure. this is the thing that's been missing.
more soon → comicbooked.org 4/4
we're also building something no other database has — a cultural classification system with 11 categories including black independent comics, african independent comics, caribbean independent comics, indigenous comics, women in comics, & more.
findable by the people specifically looking for it. 3/4
introducing the comicbooked! indie comics library — the first creator-verified database of black & indie comics built to the COMET Standard, the same metadata spec comic shop POS systems actually use.
your indie book. same discoverability infrastructure as a marvel title. at retail. for real. 2/4
for decades, black indie comics have existed in essentially no structured digital archive. comicvine has gaps. the grand comics database wasn't built for us. generations of incredible work just… floating out there. unarchived. uncredited. undiscoverable.
we are fixing that. 🧵
black lady comic pros directory is live @ comicbooked.org
a searchable home for black women & black femme creators professionals & scholars in & around comics
shoutout to @manonatelier.blacksky.app who didn’t just build the directory she single-handedly built the whole platform 🖤
Continuing our ABCs of Black Lady Comic Pros… 🖤
L is for L.L. McKinney. M is for Maika Sozo. N is for Nilah Magruder.
Give them all a follow. Buy their work. Say their names.
Support a platform built for creators like these — join the free beta at comicbooked.org.
— Jean
