/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4114882
The short version is having a lot of money to blow already and knowing the right publisher connections. If you don't have either, you're basically up a creek. It's not impossible, but success can be fleeting.

Though I hear that it's much easier to get published these days than it used to be just because there's so much less competition. Think about it, before the internet if you wanted your art to be seen by others you either had to get it published, take pics and show your friends, or be successful enough to get your pieces put into a gallery. Now people can just scan in their shit, hit submit, and let the attention flow in.
Actually getting picked is another story.

Customers generally blindly go with what's being shilled the most, but sometimes kids do end up making a book series unexpectedly popular.