Static to noise is rough with these indie games though. It's worse than it is for the other accessible internet arts. My guess is that it's because you can just sit in your office and do it in your hobby time, never having to interact with anyone else that might just tell you, "This is shit. Stop. Just stop." Comics had the publisher to vet the artists, and you can't really get away with it for music either.
I guess graphic design and visual art would be similar. But that's way more tolerable since it takes all of 2 seconds to look at an image that someone barfed up.
you are talking as if "comics" are only DC and marvel. Creator owned don't vet anything. They publish based on that brand recognition mostly. Image, Darkhorse, Arcana, etc. These publishers are 90% people that already have been working in the field, and can sell books on name recognition. but then, there is also, everyone else. Self publishing, lesser known publishers, web comics.
Image comics this week.
Elephantmen, Emptyzone, invisible Republic, IXth Generations, The Manhattan projetcs, Mythic, Nameless, Oddly Normal, Reyn, Rumble, Tech JAcket, Theif of Theives, The Tithe, Witch blade, Wofl.
15 comics. this WEEK, from Image alone.
I mean, look at the comic sales charts. top 300. it STOPS at 300, there are way more then 300 a month published, in actual stores. Nevermind digital, or webcomics.
Look at the breakdowns. Note, everything selling less then 15k at a major house, DC/Marvel is losing money. anything less then 10k at a smaller like Image is losing money. Any from a publisher you never heard of selling less then 5k, is losing money.
Comic Book Sales Figures for August 2015
Comics have their own problems of course. Shelve space is still one. Wherein of course indie games, don't even consider trying to get into stores, and compete on shelves.
Lets look at digital.
Featured Digital Comics - Comics by comiXology
79 new items this week.
125 last week.
Comixology Submit. (comixologys greenlight.)
172 items. This week.
you can see it in the sales charts. comics as an industry, are a WHOLE lot of people outright losing money. with very very few, collecting the entirety of the pie.
We can look at patreon,kickstarter for comics and see the same thing.
1 inexplicably shitty artist getting retarded amounts of cash for their bad webcomic..
Support Jeph Jacques creating Comics
others.. not so much.
Support Ashley creating Unsounded, an internet comic
Support ABBADON creating Kill Six Billion Demons
(note these are still actual successes...)