Including What the Gnomes Know, I have run or assisted with five successful crowdfunding campaigns. Two of them were absolute nailbiters that didn't get funded until the very end and resulted in some very stressful months.
It's easy to get overwhelmed while running a campaign, even when it makes its base goal early. For freelancers, it's not uncommon for funds from a project like this to constitute a MASSIVE portion of their annual income, and spending weeks pushing for every little bit is exhausting. It's hard to deny its effectiveness for cartoonists, though; as of this post, comics projects on Kickstarter have the highest success rate of any category at 64.76% (compared to the overall average of 40.24%). I certainly plan to run many more campaigns in the years to come. Hopefully with no more nailbiters.
Rock on, guys, and never stop drawing.
It's easy to get overwhelmed while running a campaign, even when it makes its base goal early. For freelancers, it's not uncommon for funds from a project like this to constitute a MASSIVE portion of their annual income, and spending weeks pushing for every little bit is exhausting. It's hard to deny its effectiveness for cartoonists, though; as of this post, comics projects on Kickstarter have the highest success rate of any category at 64.76% (compared to the overall average of 40.24%). I certainly plan to run many more campaigns in the years to come. Hopefully with no more nailbiters.
Rock on, guys, and never stop drawing.
