For everyone supporting Cougars’ Den this week

Hi everyone,

I wanted to do something extra for the people who support me and buy Cougars’ Den during the launch period.

THANK-YOU PACK

So, if you have bought Cougars’ Den, or if you buy it before May 15, send me an email at mrsgcomics@gmail.com with the subject line “Cougars’ Den thank-you pack”, and include a photo of page 31 of your copy of Cougars’ Den (it can be either print or digital) , and I’ll send you a private thank-you pack by email.

The pack will include:

• a set of sexy pictures from me , and

• one older Mrs.G digital comic of your choice (if you’ve missed any).

I’ll send the pack to everyone before the end of May.

Also, don’t worry, even if your order of it comes later (after May 15th), if you placed the order before May 15, just send me the page 31, and I’ll send you the pack.

The pictures from the set aren’t available anywhere else, and they never will be

To grab your copy of Cougars’ Den go to my page, mrsgcomics.com , and there you’ll find the link to where you can buy it. Choose the Amazon store closest to you.

Q & A

All the time I’m getting some questions related to the creation of the comics, lots of them I’ve answered in the past, so sorry if I repeat myself.

Q: Were you always interested in creating comics?

A: No, I have to admit I was never into comics. In my defense - most Gen-X girls weren’t either. I was interested in writing stories though. I had a few attempts when I was a teenager, but nothing came out of that. After that I went to university (where I studied economics), got married and then started my own furniture sales business. All the time I kept reading books, but never had any interest in comics. I thought it was just superhero childish stuff.

Q: Then, how come you started writing them?

A: It happened thanks to my Instagram account. When I opened the original account, like 5 years ago or so, I posted a few provocative pictures, and to my surprise soon I got a following of 20,000 peope or so (if I remember right). Some of these followers were artists, and some even asked if they could draw me. One of them was Patrick O’Donnell. However, his illustrations are always interesting, because they are not pin-ups, but they look like they belong in some kind of story. I then found that he did a simple mini-comic with another IG account, so that’s when I started thinking about possibilities. I also grabbed a few comics that people recommended like V for Vendetta, The Dark Knight Returns, Watchmen, and a few others, and I realized that you can tell any kind of story through the medium.

Q: Do you draw the comics yourself?

A: No, as I said, first I started working with Patrick O’Donnell. And then because drawing them takes a lot of time, and I couldn’t just wait, I searched for other artists I could collaborate with, and started working on a couple other comics. In the past 3.5 years I’ve communicated with a lots of artists, and have worked with big part of them. My part is to write the comic book scripts, to keep the artists working on the script (by using a leash ;) ) , I also do the lettering (the addition of the speech balloons and captions), and I do the final editing and layout.

Q: How do the finances work? Do you have some agreement of splitting the profit with the artists?

A: No, even if creatively I’m the one who provides the story, the direction, etc…, the bulk of the actual physical work is done by the artists. Each page takes days if not weeks to create, where you actually need to sit and draw. On the other hand, the comics don’t make a lot of money. So any backend profit-splitting agreement is unreasonable, because all the main risk is on the artist. In fact that was the original plan with Patrick O’Donnell, but when I realized that the money we made wouldn’t cover any reasonable $ for his hourly work, we changed to a more straightforward commission model. From that point I work with all artists in the same way - I commission pages from them one at a time, I pay and I get full ownership of the product.

Q: How much do you make from selling a comic?

A: Actually, the sales don’t even cover the costs. Not the way I sell them. By selling them on Amazon, I get like $2 from each copy sold, and the production costs run from a few thousand dollars to over $10,000 depending on the size of the comic. So just to get even, I would need to sell a few thousand copies of the comic. So far, the most I’ve sold is around 900 of the first comic. So you can see, that I can’t rely just on sales (or why the collaboration wouldn’t work). What other comic book creators usually do is run Kickstarter campaigns, where they get more money per copy, also offer different covers, etc… so that supporters end up giving the creator much more - in that way covering the costs of production. Thankfully I don’t have to do that, because I have my supporters on Patreon. The support of around 500 people there has made it possible to cover all these expenses. If it wasn’t for that, I wouldn’t be able to do this. In short, I’m not doing this for money. The comics are the worst business!

Anyway, thanks for reading this far! And I hope some of these Q&As were interesting to you. If you have any other questions, please make sure to send them to me on any available channel. I read DMs (even if I rarely answer them), emails , etc…

And just to end up with another reminder, that if you want to get the “Thank-you pack” make sure to get your copy of Cougars’ Den before May 15th!

With love,

Mrs. Goanna G.