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For Comics creatorsUpdated Nov 6, 20262 min read

Set up your publishing identity and accept the agreement

Before you make a comic here: choose the name readers see on your work, accept the Comics Publisher Agreement, confirm you hold the rights, and wait for your account to be activated.

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  1. Before you start
  2. If something's off

The Comic Studio is where you make a comic here — lay out panels, drop in your art, letter it, and publish it to the Bindery. First, a name to publish under.

Before you start

  • A Waypoint account, signed in, with your date of birth given: a publishing identity is for members 18 and over.
  • A computer with a wide screen: the Studio's tools need at least 1280 pixels across.
  • The rights to everything you'll publish, or written permission from everyone who holds them.

  1. Open the Studio

    In the Comics Realm's rail, choose Comic Studio. It asks First, a name to publish under.

  2. Name it

    Publisher name — what readers see on your work (your own name is fine). The Publisher URL fills in from it: 3 to 40 lowercase letters, numbers or hyphens.

  3. Choose the kind

    Kind: Solo creator, or Small press — I publish other people's work too. Add a Website if you like.

  4. Read and accept

    Under Before you publish, tick I accept the Comics Publisher Agreement. (open it from the link to read it) and the rights warranty — that you hold the rights to everything you publish, or written permission from everyone who does.

  5. Create it

    Press Create publishing identity.

Check it worked

You can start making drafts straight away. Your account shows Pending review in the Publishing console until staff activate it; you get Your publishing account was reviewed when they have.

Both lanes — making here, or uploading a finished file in the Publishing console — share this one identity. Next: start a series.

If something's off

“A publishing identity is for members 18 and over.”
You need to be 18 or over. If you are, add your date of birth first.
“That publisher URL is already taken.”
Choose a different URL.
Create publishing identity is greyed out
Fill in the name and a valid URL, and tick both boxes.
“Your publishing account isn't active yet…”
Staff activate accounts before their first release. Keep making; publish once you're activated.

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