Neil Blevins (He/Him)

Creating, Financing and Publishing Your Own Artbook

Have you dreamed of making your own artbook to sell at Comicons, conventions and online? Presenter Neil Blevins has self published many artbooks under his own independent small press, and will reveal everything you need to know from the initial idea, laying out the book, funding the book on Kickstarter, printing the books overseas and having them shipped to customers and yourself, and selling them at conventions. He will get into all the details you don’t normally hear about, from how much things cost, sales figures, the advantages and disadvantages of self publishing vs having a publisher. If you’d like your own book to be selling in artist alley, this talk will give you all the details you need to know.