>>5843596hes trying to figure out a way he can sell a manga for a dollar per page, by using the quality of art as leverage.
e,g, you have two manga pages, both telling the same story but with different levels of art quality in between them.
op, this is not how making money with art works. you make money per volume/chapter, not per page. per-page can be helpful tool in measuring how much time/money you are spending per chapter, but no one is going to pay $1 per page. people want a complete story, or at least a clear indication that their money was worth it, and to ask people to pay for individual pages falls so far outside the normal persons value proposition that they will laugh you off. american comics, by far the most expensive option per page, typically costs between $3-5us. do you know what you get for that $3-5us? 30-40 full colour pages. lets assume the highest estimate at $5 per issue and divide that by the minimum estimate of 30 page, lets give you the longest piece of rope to hang yourself with, and what you can see is that major companies charge 16 cents per page. 0.16, per page. from a mulit-billion dollar company. if they cant manage to get people to pay 20 cents per page, let alone a full fucking dollar, what makes you think you can break the dollar mark? keep in mind that printing in color costs significantly more than printing in black and white, so that will eat into your margins.
but i digress. if you really want to make those sorts of returns with minimal effort/cost, unironically sell stickers. sell collectable pins. you need an audience to buy that shit from you too in this scenario, but considering you needed an artist, someone with no understanding of business and finance beyond managing paypall exchanges, to tell you how making money works, i think building an audience is going to be the least of your concerns.
