Substack, a platform that enables the publication of paid newsletters, welcomes a sizeable group of popular cartoonists to his service. We're talking about names of the caliber Grant Morrison, Tom King and Brian K. Vaughan, who will have the opportunity to publish new series on the platform, directly participating in the proceeds.
The list of creators, which also includes Elsa Charretier, Jen Bartel, Khary Randolph, Joanne Starer, and Niko Henrichon will finalize the list of cartoonists present on Substackwhich already includes Jonathan Hickman (who has remastered the X Men's titles in recent years), James Tynion IV and Kelly Thompson.
This is a particularly handy platform for cartoonists: All works distributed via Substack remain the property of the authors, which are earned directly by end users who sign up for a subscription if interested. The authors therefore have full control over their creations and only have to pay a small percentage of the earnings to the platform.
While retaining publishing rights to all of their work, creators using Substack can therefore, they have the opportunity to publish their series in paper form as well: This is the case of Jeff Lemire who, while releasing his Black Hammer comic digitally on Substack, was able to license Dark Horse Comics to distribute the series in physical format.
Substack began to take a more serious interest in the world of comics Last summer, when he was assigned to oversee the development of comic book projects, he hired screenwriter Nick Spencer, who had just finished his run on Spider-Man a few months ago.