Recent popular Kickstarter comics projects range from Brawl in the Family, a video game parody webcomic which has raised $27,220, nearly triple its $10,000 goal, to an illustrated storybook about two kids inheriting an "odd old house with generations of accumulated wonder", A Cabinet of Curiosities, which has made a whopping $35,820 when it was setting out to make just $4,000. Clearly, crowdfunding is making a huge impact in the graphic novel market," said Publishers Weekly. Even with these caveats, Kickstarter is in the conversation for the number two publisher of graphic novels. Not all of Kickstarter's comics projects are graphic novels, but the majority are. They'll have a little better revenue percentage than 40%. "In terms of fairness, will have more titles sold on a given month than are listed in the Top 300. This was calculated by Publishers Weekly by multiplying publisher totals by 40% and Kickstarter's total by 90%, as on Kickstarter, 90-92% of a pledge goes to the creator/publisher of a project, while a regular publisher will keep an estimated 40% of the list price of a book. When the amount of revenue a publisher receives, rather than gross revenue, is estimated, however, Kickstarter moved up into second place, with $1.99m in revenue behind Marvel with $2.76m and ahead of DC with $1.72m. Kickstarter made $2.2m in gross revenue over the three months, Publishers Weekly estimates, behind Marvel ($6.9m), DC ($4.3m) and Image ($2.98m). Seven of the site's graphic novel projects raised more than $40,000 (£25,690) over the period, 25 of the 115 successfully funded projects earned five figures, and one – Rich Burlew's The Order of the Stick comic – made $1,254,120. Research by US book industry magazine Publishers Weekly puts Kickstarter – which is set to launch in the UK later this year – in fourth place in a ranking of the US's top five graphic novel publishers over the three-month period from February to April. From the million-plus dollars raised for a graphic novel about stick figures to an all-female anthology showcasing the works of women in comics, the crowdfunding website Kickstarter has become one of the biggest graphic novel publishers in the US.
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