Todd Allen on Comics Economics

This is the kind of post I love -- I like to do them myself, when I can, and I like them even more when someone else does the work for me.

Todd Allen, writing for Publishers Weekly, has examined the costs and rewards of independent comics publishing, and come up with a sanguine picture. For 99% of us, the numbers will be purely academic -- but they're interesting all the same, and seeing Allen work them out is instructive.