So I've just finished my memoir comic, and I'm quite pleased with how it turned out. Of course there are things I'd like to tweak, like the thickness of the borders, some illegible text, etc. but overall I think I'm getting better at this thing. After this, I'm likely going to return to The Island, a satirical fairytale I started last year, but had to let sit for various reasons (mostly school and planning for college). I started thinking about what I could do with my work, and around the same time my parents have been telling me I need to get a job for the summer.

So here's what I'm thinking: Self-publishing's getting way cheaper, right? Lulu.com and places like that are available for people to print out their own books and sell them online or in person, with the sites taking a chunk of the profits for printing materials and suchlike. What I'd like to do is, once The Island is complete, to go back and do those tweaks on it and the memoir comic, and sell those as the "definitive editions". The changes likely wouldn't be drastic- again, it would likely be things like fixing my messy handwriting to make it easier on the eyes. The original versions would still be up online- this way, you know exactly what you'd be paying for.

Aside from the comics, I've been designing my own pen-and-paper RPG system, tentatively titled "Sexy Adventure Time". Like the comics, I'll post the basic rules online, so people know what they're paying for, but as a bonus for buying the book (which isn't going to be terribly long- it's a pretty simple and flexible system), I'll be filling it with illustrations- maybe even in color!

Unfortunately, a lot of it is going to depend on how many people are interested in buying my work. What say ye, Tokyopop?

(P.S. Any ideas for a good store name? I'm not sure I want to use Otaku42 as part of it, so any suggestions are welcome.)