I asked for input so now you’ll get some of mine. I’m finding a lot of the dubbing community to not be very communicative with their intent, and also pushy. When I first got asks for comic dubbing, I was unaware of their use with my works for monetization. They asked me, of course to dub it… But didn’t inform me.

In my opinion, dubbing should be collaborative, not something where people see a nice little pool of money waiting to happen. I spent several months on my last comic chapter, and someone profiting off it without anything in return is a pretty large “fuck you and fuck your time and skill” to my face.

As far as the “exposure” part of comic making is concerned. Did I get it, yes, and I can’t say it was the best experience. I got new followers for sure, mostly extremely young ones that flooded my inbox with asks of ships, Ink and Error, drawing for NSFW, and many other things I’ve never even drawn on this blog nor have an interest in. (People would even attempt to role play with me in the questions…)

So yeah, didn’t really translate into meaningful following as much as I’d like. I prefer compensation when money is involved.

PS: Yes, giving credit to the artist should be standard, not some special niceness granted by the dubbers. I am not even arguing they should give credit cause that’s pretty obvious. If they don’t, I highly suggest you copystrike those fuckers right away.