CATDOLL: Men should also learn to appreciate BL? The original author of the comic reveals the secret of making money

Many friends who like animation/comics, have you ever thought about creating comics yourself? But first you have to learn to draw! However, with the development of the industry, many authors who can't draw but can only write stories can also publish comics with their works. This is now more common, with one person responsible for the story and the other responsible for the drawing of the comics. In this way, even if you can't draw, you can still create comics.

But how can you make money? And how much money can you make? In this regard, a senior Japanese comics original author revealed the secret.

First of all, we need to know that the royalties for comics are usually 10% of the sales price. If a comic costs 500 yen, the cartoonist can receive 50 yen in royalties. If the comic author and the cartoonist share it equally, each person can earn 25 yen for each book sold. If you can sell 10 million copies of your work, your royalties will be 250 million yen (but how many comics can sell more than 10 million copies?)

In addition, there will be comic peripheral fees, and cheap comics in convenience stores can also earn taxes. When asked what kind of works are best to write recently? The teacher replied, "Nowadays, writing works in the BL and TL fields is the most profitable, mainly because these female-oriented works have always been in great demand, but in the past, it was not easy to promote because women were not used to buying 18-rated books in stores. Now comics have moved from paper to digital platforms, so you can easily make a lot of money by writing BL, TL online novels or serving as the original author of online comics!