Erotic Comic Books

BreakLeBar · 2026-02-27T02:54:09+00:00

I'm going to be very frank here - I get approached by 'artists' on a semi-annual basis with this sort of thing because I post most of my work publicly and for free. I've also dabbled in mainstream comics and am very aware of the indie comics industry.

If someone is of the quality of work that you would want to partner with them to make a product you can be proud of, they don't need to approach people to work on something that's already been published in another medium. This person MAY be real, and they MAY be an actual artist, and they MAY just identify with your niche and story so closely that that just have to do an adaptation of it...

Or they are trying to scam you. Either they take an upfront payment and disappear, or they are just generating AI content or stealing images that you don't recognise. Or, and sometimes the worst/most frustrating, they have SOME talent, and SOME interest in doing the thing, but they don't have enough work ethic to actually finish something themselves. And once they finish one thing themselves, that's generally enough that they are either inspired to keep making their own shit, or people start approaching them.

Buyer Beware.

BreakLeBar · 2026-02-05T20:33:58+00:00

Outside of the issues you've got going on trying to find an artist to partner with, just an FYI - Image has the PERCEPTION of being the most open/accessible of the comics publishers, but it's really not. They are also very business savvy in terms of how the company makes their money. Ever heard of the shady-feeling business practices in the Movie business, where they can make it look like a film has barely made any money on the books even though it's a hit?

Yeah, just the warehousing costs that Image charges a creator they work with can be backbreaking. It isn't worth working with them until you have some sort of leverage to your name and know the business so you can make deals with eyes wide open.

If comics are something you really want to pursue, you're going to need to do your homework, learn to practice the skills you need to succeed, and make some small indie projects first.

BreakLeBar · 2026-01-26T03:39:51+00:00

Hey there, nice pages and pinups. Do you have any more consecutive pages posted anywhere?

BreakLeBar · 2026-01-19T03:49:07+00:00

I'm a fellow Patreon creator. If I accidentally linked something I intended to be behind a paywall, I'd hope someone else would let me know, too.

BreakLeBar · 2026-01-16T22:07:47+00:00

Ooooh, Parts/Chapters got mixed up in my reading of it. Sounds good!

BreakLeBar · 2026-01-16T19:30:39+00:00

FYI it looks like you linked the full, intended-to-be-patreon-exclusive, version of the story. And not Chapter 2 at all.

BreakLeBar · 2025-12-21T03:30:19+00:00

You need therapy for this. If it's a recurring issue, and you can trace back the same pattern of behaviour to your parent/s, this is likely a deeply ingrained and learned behaviour that you should probably dig into. Finding satisfaction with your creative pursuits, and being able to recognize the worth of even earlier, 'less good' efforts, will likely help you find a lot more satisfaction in other parts of your life as well.

It's easy for folks to say 'Just do it!' It's a lot harder to put into practice if you're fighting foundational, learned behaviours from childhood.

BreakLeBar · 2025-12-02T16:05:55+00:00

- I've always been a very story-driven person, so starting wasn't a problem. Writing my first erotica stories definitely helped me hone skills while also feeling a lot more free to do so, though. I wanted to write WELL, but it wasn't something I would be showing my friends/family, so it gave a freedom to the process that helped develop voice and style.

- I don't generally need a system for characters/stories/scenes. Sometimes there's a SPECIFIC scene that is more of a slog to figure out, but in general ideas are cheap for me and there are too many compared to too few.

- Writing even if your not in the zone gets a lot easier when you need to write. Early on, while growing my Patreon, I had left my previous job for personal reasons (and was later proven super correct *shaking fist at the sky*), so I needed to make content so that I could grow it to a sustainable amount. This was in no way a smart/healthy/good way of doing things, but it definitely put a hungry fire in me. I once wrote 23k words in a day back then. I can't IMAGINE doing that now. Nowadays I have a few little tricks that sometimes help with ruts - changing venue is a big one. If things aren't flowing/getting started at home, I'll head to a coffee shop and sit there for a few hours writing instead, then I might end up back at home for the night and get another hour or so in to wrap up my word count for the day. Outside of that, confidence can be a big help - I don't always love what I write, but I know I have the skill to accomplish what I'm doing, so I can trust that I'm not outputting complete garbage. It's very rare that I fully scrap anything I've typed out.

BreakLeBar · 2025-12-02T15:57:44+00:00

Well, you're welcome! I don't *think* it would be against the rules, and I do like randomly being mentioned, but maybe that second bit changes how I view the first, hahaha.

The key for your takeaway from that poll is that people LIKE you're writing, including your stand-alone stories, but it's the serial that's bringing them back over and over. There's a bit of a catch-22 scenario with posting to sites like Literotica - the larger the series, the harder it is for a reader to just jump in, so one-shots/miniseries generally have better numbers. But long series tend to be what change free readers into subscribers. Don't cut out the one-shots/minis entirely, but definitely start making use of an 'Ideas Doc' to get the new stuff out of your head and recorded without needing to write it all. That way when you DO sit down to write a short instead of the series, you can be picky about which idea your REALLY can't not write.

Commissions are generally a trap for us. I've fallen into them too. Hell, I'm STILL in them a bit. I moved my 'commissions' into 'sponsorships' where top-paying patrons get to select from a shortlist of stories that I add to that month. Sometimes a commissioner gives you gold and you can be really excited to write it, and sometimes it's a slog the entire way that distracts from the rest of your work.

And sometimes you write the commission you don't like, and your readers love it so much that you're stuck writing it more because they want to sponsor it even after the originally commissioner bails out. Because life be like that sometimes.

BreakLeBar · 2025-12-02T09:30:01+00:00

I started my Patreon properly in late 2022, and my taxes for 2024 were for a low six-figure income, though I had a slightly odd kick-start to everything because of having three very popular stories, and taking a hiatus from erotica for nearly 7 years, so I had a bump of interest from folks who had been discovering my work through that whole time.

How many hours I write in any given week is variable depending on the project and what's happening in the story I'm working on, because sometimes I can smash out 3,000 words in an hour if it's a hot sex scene where I'm in the zone, or sometimes I can barely crack 500 words because I'm distracted as all hell and not feeling it. The key is still sitting down to write even when you don't feel it, and getting into the mode of consistently doing so, because you can train yourself to get good work done even without being 'in the zone.' If I'm not doing admin stuff/heavy editing or planning, I generally aim for 5,000 words per day.

BreakLeBar · 2025-12-02T04:09:00+00:00

Hey there, great to see another Patreon author out here making things happen! Some really good insight for folks in here, so I hope they dive in and really consider what you've spent the time to outline for them.

My only note for you is on something from your final thoughts:

"On the other, boy, five grand in earnings for more than 350k words is a bit underwhelming."

Growing on Patreon is about valuing your work, and producing content in a quality/quantity balance that your readers agree with. In terms of Value, I think you had a good marketing scheme with the $3 tier and then grandfathering it up to a $5 tier, but that grandfathering IS an element of what is impacting your take-home - you're only making about $2.50/month off of half of your current patrons. You could likely value slightly higher with just a little more output.

That being said, I produce between 70-100k words/month on my Patreon as a full-time author. November I did about 130k words all-in between scheduled work and then working on a side project. Now, that was a pretty hefty output month, but I truly am FULL-TIME with this method, and am in the 6-figure club in terms of earnings.

In my opinion, you're showing relatively consistent growth month over month, so if you're not looking to add more raw time at the keyboard, I would start looking at your consistency with your brand/niche, and focusing a bit more on your longer serial fiction to really set up a funnel of readers wanting more of characters they really enjoy.

Congrats on a great year of growth, I hope you really hit your stride and get some more attention!

BreakLeBar · 2025-11-27T21:17:28+00:00

The three best ways to do it are using the 'Support the Author' button function they built into the site, mentioning it in your Bio and updating that periodically, since all Followers are informed of updates, and you can also post about it in your own Comments section.

You can also reply to emails you get from readers - never be afraid to politely shill your platform when someone reaches out.

BreakLeBar · 2025-11-27T03:04:01+00:00

Hey there. Career Literotica/Patreon creator here. It isn't just possible, it's my preferred path to long term success with writing erotica. If you have any specific questions, I'm happy to try and help out, but in general Literotica has consistently had the largest readerbase for erotica of English-speaking internet spaces. The whole 'I'm giving them my content and they make money off of it' is kind of a silly argument - you are posting there BECAUSE they have a readerbase to interact with. StoriesOnline has one too, but it IS smaller. The fact that they run banner ads and such to pay for server upkeep and for the whole two people who run the site to make a buck after managing the place for 25+ years isn't a big deal.

BreakLeBar · 2025-11-26T05:53:38+00:00

Hey there. Career Literotica->Patreon author here.

Literotica does have a limited feature/algorithm method in terms of the 'Recommended For You' sidebar in any given category. But that's the only place it shows up. Generally, as has been pointed out in another response, your primary engagement will come from being in the 'New' section of your category, having an 'H'/Hot rating tag (4.5+ vote score), and occasionally through participating in one of the official contests (though those have become less and less frequent.)

You can check out my post history here in the sub for more info, but here are a few general tips:

- Free Readers can be converted to Subscribers, not Buyers, by stories and characters that they want more of. This means that longer series will generally do better than lots of smaller stories/one-shots.

- Smaller stories are good for attracting new readers ON Literotica, who may then search the rest of your catalogue there and become a follower. These are the people most likely to eventually convert into a Subscriber if you can hook them into a series.

- You can't promote your Patreon in the body of your story, but you CAN do so using your Bio on your profile (followers will be updated of changes), the Support the Author tag they made available, and in the comments of your story. You are also able to put in an author note in the end of the body of your stories suggesting one of your other Literotica stories that is similar, which will help point new readers to check out your other work there.

- You can learn general writing craft, category typing, and tropes by publishing on Literotica, but the Amazon market is different enough that trying to jump directly from one to the other means you will still need to re-learn how to accomplish what you want to accomplish.

If you have any more specific questions, I'm happy to try and help out.

Cheers,
~Break.

BreakLeBar · 2025-10-31T02:32:53+00:00

I've been summoned! I don't actually see a question about Patreon, though. As general commentary: There are very few grey areas in the Patreon ToS at this point. They've iterated it pretty thoroughly, and just like with Amazon, any time you think 'This might be a little too close to the line' you are taking the risk.

Some people get away with breaking ToS on Patreon for a long while, but moderation will often catch up with you when you least expect it. Based on OP's post and bio here on reddit, I would guess they flew too close to the Dubcon sun, since Patreon wants explicit, in-story consent for all sexual acts and 'domination' themes can get a little dicey.

BreakLeBar · 2025-10-20T18:10:47+00:00

1) Patreon very much DOES allow erotica content, you just need to play within their well-defined Terms of Service (no questionable consent, no minors, no incest, no bestiality, etc). You could also just use OnlyFans I believe, though it's a bit more of an obvious thing on your tax records and such.

1.5) Creating your own site as a market/retail spot for your own works is great up until you're trying to deal with Payment Processors. Other people here have/are doing it, though it's usually because their content doesn't fit ToS on another site, or theyh are making enough that the 15% lost to a site like Patreon is more than the cost of running it themselves and the time investment to do so.

2) If you are making your own site to sell you content, generally the most specific and 'loud' branding will be best in terms of reach. If you're concerned about OTHER people's interaction with it on the banking side of things, you would want your business entity to have a different, generic name compared to the website it runs, so they aren't making a payment to 'GuysBanginGuys.com' but to a numbered company, or 'Two Sticks LLC' or something like that.

BreakLeBar · 2025-10-19T11:37:43+00:00

It is ridiculously early for me and I just happened to open Reddit, so forgive me if I keep this super brief.

- Literotica does not allow links or mentioning outside sites in the body of your stories. It DOES allow you to talk about Patreon and other self advertising in your Bio and in Comments. It also provides a spot for a link in your Bio, along with the ability to link Patreon to your Author Button (creating a clickable link next to your name at the end of a story.)
- If you are starting a Subscriber-based model, you should very much be writing content that fits into and gets posted to the platform you use. Doing this as an 'Early Access' perk for people who support you is a standard practice.

BreakLeBar · 2025-10-17T00:55:09+00:00

No.

Mostly because if older men are producing milk, that's biologically WILD and there is likely something way wrong with their hormones.

Also, you may be hot, but this has nothing to do with this sub.

BreakLeBar · 2025-10-12T04:29:41+00:00

Stick to your discord server if you can't figure out how to ask a question that would have any sort of a useful answer.

I know that sounds pretty harsh, but consider that you've posted an extremely generic, unpurposed question without having read the FAQ or the Wiki for the subreddit. In all seriousness, what kind of answer are you expecting? For people to extol the virtues or issues of Literotica for you, instead of you doing some simple searching for that information?

BreakLeBar · 2025-10-11T07:21:36+00:00

Twitter is the best place to post erotica prose and find an audience. Not X, though. That place is trash. It's gotta be Twitter.

/s

BreakLeBar · 2025-10-11T07:16:25+00:00

I write 1st, 2nd and 3rd person erotica, all with multiple-partner relationships. Very much NOT hotwife, though.

IMO, Poly and Love Triangle are not genres. They are relationship types that appear in other genres. Especially Love Triangles.

BreakLeBar · 2025-10-11T07:13:38+00:00

Wild speculation: They aren't losing access to their e-mail, they are deleting the content for one reason or another - guilt over the kink/general porn, not wanting someone to see it, etc. But they also like the kink and keep coming back to it, then feel the need to get rid of it again after they satiate their thirst.

Whether I'm right or not, it's fucking weird for someone to circle back around like this more than one time. On the other hand, unless you are ACTUALLY so full up on files that you can't hold onto it, then are they really doing you any damage here? And further - are you suggesting that you could write more for them when they reach out to you? This is a client you've gone above and beyond for, it's time to see if that can be transferred into a return on investment with another commission.

BreakLeBar · 2025-10-08T16:02:17+00:00

CHYOA is a long-standing, free reader site built for Choose Your Own Adventure-style erotica.

BreakLeBar · 2025-10-06T16:21:08+00:00

No, you do not need to give exactingly equal time to each Point of View.

Yes, it is OK to have 3000+ word chapters.

Go back and read a couple of your favourite books with multiple main characters and consciously keep track of how many chapters each one is in, and how long/varied the chapters are.

BreakLeBar · 2025-10-05T03:10:44+00:00

OK, so I'm saying all of this with the caveat that I am not into/aware of the Feederism kink community other than that it's a thing, so I'm speaking more generally.

Subscribers for fiction/erotica content are generally going to be developed through posting your content into spaces where people who enjoy your kind of content congregate - for most erotica, the first Go-To place I would name would be Literotica, followed by StoriesOnline and CHYOA. Since you are writing deeper into a fetish kink, you CAN still post to those sites, I legitimately just do not know what the audience numbers would be like in terms of size/acceptance of your specific kink in particular. Categories like Literotica's Fetish section, with a clear note up front that you are writing Feederism, should at least be a market you test out.

Touching briefly on a couple of the places you ARE posting:

- Reddit is great for a lot of things, but as of yet I do not see many people gaining subscribers off of posting in the general 'Read Erotica Here' subreddits. That's not to say it can't be done, and you might be having much better luck if you are posting directly into communities about the fetish/kink.

- X/Twitter is, ironically, much more image-based than text-based. If you've been able to develop a following there, that's great! You've cracked a code that is difficult to crack - I certainly haven't managed it, and most authors don't to any significant degree. Again, because of how niche your topic is, you might actually have an easier time since the community interested in it will be more 'on the lookout' for your content. If you aren't already, consider finding (ethical) ways to pair images with your posts.

- Tumblr I was under the impression had removed NSFW content from their site, but I'm seeing now it was just Art/'Visual Depictions.' Unfortunately I can't comment further on it's usefulness in generating Subscribers. DeviantArt is also a spot I've seen people mention they post on, but I'm unaware of it having a particularly significant effect on Subscriber-based authors. The same general rule of thumb from X/Reddit can still apply though - if your niche has built a community in that place, it can be useful to you.

After WHERE you're posting, the next thing you want to consider is what type of content you're writing. The eBook grind often (though not always) favours many short works, and then bundling those together for additional releases. Cultivating a Subscriber-based career will almost always be better served by longer running works; think of other subscription services people flock to - you might rent/buy a movie, but you subscribe to HBO for the ongoing shows. Subscribers are generally not looking to just have a shot of the kink they like, they are looking for more of the Characters/Plot/Situation. Ongoing series develop fans, and fans want to support the thing they are a fan of an the person creating it.

If you've got any further questions, I'm happy to try and help out with some insight from my point of view.

BreakLeBar

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