You don't get paid until it's DONE.And the publisher can't afford to pay in advance for work that may not be finished in a timely manner or at all.
Then you STOP writing for trades and do stand alone stories like we ALL grew up on in the 70s-80s-90s.The floppies allow the publishers to break up the payment of the creators into a timely manner, i.e. every month.
You don't do a 10 volume epic clunkfest story like Coates does in Black Panther.
Take any trade you have and look through it-how much stuff could be taken out? Especially stuff by BENDIS?
You can also PAY an artist and writer for stories and publish them later.
Tony Isabella was paid to do 4 Rocket Racer stories (4-5 pages long) in 1990. Between 1990-1996-we saw those stories printed in Marvel Tales or Spider-Man annual.
I think the issue is distribution-I never saw a mainstream comic book in black owned book stores with the exception of Brotherman.And like Hypestyle said get comics with POC into ethnic shops. And start to promote gay characters and book them in LTBGQ Friendly stores.
Yet I saw all those horrible ones that never made it past issue one.
And you would have the same issue that comic book stores have-those places don't attract large crowds of people. In some places they don't exist.
I had 4-5 growing up near me. 2 were NEVER open when I went to them DESPITE signs saying they were suppose to be open.
All of them are gone.
I know folks want to bring up cost.....
IDW Star Trek Ongoing series
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...-before-part-1
That is not a JOKE-that book retails for $20.Hardcover, 24 pages
Published September 1st 2013 by Abdo Publishing Company
ISBN1614791619 (ISBN13: 9781614791614)
I have seen this book and that was NOT the only one.
Marvel is guilty too.
While most of these I have seen in libraries. Someone is buying them.