D.P. BROWN & MARVIN WYNN ARE BUILDING COMICSBURGH FOR THE LONG HAUL | Comic Crusaders Podcast #768

WEPA! Making a comic is already hard enough, but apparently D.P. Brown and Marvin Wynn looked at that struggle and said, “You know what would make this easier? LET’S BUILD A PUBLISHING COMPANY TOO!” The Comicsburgh crew joins me on the Comic Crusaders Podcast to talk about what happens when independent creators stop thinking about one book at a time and start asking how you build something that can actually last.

Comicsburgh has grown around a creator-first philosophy, but we get past the nice-sounding terminology and talk about what that means when contracts, money, deadlines and distribution enter the picture. D.P. and Marvin break down how they approach creator ownership, what they look for in people they want to work with, and why protecting the creator’s identity matters while still building a recognizable publishing brand.

We also get into the comics themselves. D.P. takes us inside The Theme of Thieves and its mixture of history, adventure and time travel, while Marvin talks about the continuing evolution of The Edge and what happens when a story you started years ago grows into something much larger than you originally imagined.

Then your boy starts poking around the BUSINESS, because you know I wasn’t letting them escape without that conversation. Comicsburgh announced a national sales and distribution agreement with Independent Publishers Group in 2026, potentially putting its books in front of a much wider bookstore and library market, but getting distribution isn’t the finish line. We talk about the difference between having access to retail and actually convincing somebody to buy the damn book.

That takes us into crowdfunding, conventions, marketing, printing, education and some of the expensive mistakes creators make while trying to look like publishers before they’ve learned how publishing actually works. D.P. and Marvin also explain why Comicsburgh has put energy into teaching creators the business surrounding their art, because writing a great script or drawing beautiful pages doesn’t automatically teach somebody how to price, sell, distribute or market what they created.

This is one for the indie creators, the people sitting on issue #1, the convention warriors hauling boxes into hotels, and anybody wondering how you move from making comics to building a comics business without losing the reason you started creating in the first place. Check out Comicsburgh, follow @comicsburgh, support the books, and watch the full conversation above.

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