Ellory The Shark

Fishing

December 9, 2015

There have been a LOT more visitors lately. Don’t think I haven’t noticed you. I love each one of you, always and forever.

But that brings up an awkward question about…money. I enjoy doing this comic, and I hosted it out of love, but I would love it if one day this could be my main source of income. This would also give me a better perspective on how much more seriously I should take this comic and if I should draw more a week.

So if you have the time I’d appreciate it if you could vote in this strawpoll

If this is just a casual comic for you I completely understand and it won’t affect how often I write it.

But if you would donate it would literally be responsible for making my dreams come true andyouwouldbethebestpersonintheworldandsupergreat.

ThoughtfulThaumaturge

That little “wot” Ellory in the top right is kinda scary, what with the teeth. Sometimes I forgot these guys are sharks. She’s still adorable, though, and now I’m imagining her with a slight Scottish brogue. …Odd question, but how do you imagine your character’s voices, given that they’re… y’know, sharks?

Good luck on the Patreon thingy!
ellorytheshark

So far most of the characters have an American accent in my head. It’s never really mentioned but they live off the upper west coast of the US, somewhere near Washington.

The only exception would be Dabe who’s Norwegian.
Naoma Bobian

I don’t know if this is true to most of the influx of new visitors, but I managed to find these comics when they were posted onto a site called funnyjunk a couple of days ago, with a link back to your page of course. The community there are very supportive of original comic creators, so perhaps making a post about this on the site could also help fund the comic.

It is up to you though, I just hope it might help. The people there are sure to remember it seeing how they could apparently relate a lot.
ibutton77

I got a copy of XKCD’s thing-explainer, and he likes to call sharks “Biting Fish”. <3

About funding, I think a great idea is to reach out to other webcomic peoples for advice (including possibly XKCD.. but also Jeph Jaques http://questionablecontent.net/about.php, Flufflepuff/MixerMike http://askflufflepuff.tumblr.com/, BrianneDrouhard http://www.harpygee.com/about and others), find out what they have tried so far as funding or marketing (however subtle) and what seems to work, what doesn't?

I think a full time living on a 4 panel will be pretty advanced, basically Charles Shultz / Jim Davis territory. One four panel as part of a strategy involving many serial creative works and the blistering creative energy output of a crack-fiend and/or a Green-brother (Chaps-brother.. etc) could definitely do the trick, though. :3

Well alright, teaming up with an equally insane sibling might be what helps to keep that kind of engine going then. xD

But to give an idea how funding weight feels from a pretty well experienced patron, $1/mo is about what I dole out to Fluffle and to earn $10/mo from me it takes Lindsey Doe with the professional editing, deep research and the guts to bust through endless cultural taboos just to make sure young people can feel both educated and validated.

For some perspective, Netflix gets $8/mo from me in exchange for ~500GB/mo of traffic, so.. xD
ellorytheshark

Yup, I’m in pretty new territory here and I’m just trying to test the waters. I didn’t even expect the amount of possible dollar donators I have gotten so far.

Thanks for the advice!
ColdFusion

Oh yeah, juice. Fantastic present.

Ellory The Shark

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