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Comics News Sites & Blogs

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Books about Comics, Making Comics and Reading Comics

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Annual Conventions & Events



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Other Comics Creator Groups

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Comics Libraries & Museums

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Publishers

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Printers

For the purposes of this list, there are three types of comics printers: offset printers, digital printers, and print-on-demand printers. Both offset printers and digital printers print a pre-determined number of your books, after which you try to sell the books. Offset printers have certain fixed costs, and (in my experience) they make sense only for print runs over about 500 copies. Digital printers use inkjet or laser printers; they have no minimum print runs.
Print-on-demand printers use digital printing technology, but they print only one book at a time, every time you make a sale. They're a boon to truly small-press creators. The quality is usually indistinguishable from larger printers, and the per-unit costs are entirely reasonable.
When getting a price quote from a regular printer, email them (or fill out an online form) with the specs of your book: number of pages, size of pages, number of copies you want printed, weight of paper for both cover and interior, how many colors for both cover and interior (from black-and-white to four-color CMYK). They will get back to you with a quote. Factor in both tax and shipping into your costs. For people who are upping their game to go nationwide, I note the printers who have a pick-up deal with Diamond Distributors. :P
As far as I know, all these printers can do both saddle-stitch (stapled) comics and perfect-bound trade paperbacks.
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