Comicalfoods is a food publisher cooking up passion projects and sharing the recipes for how they make them. Here is our recipe!
Chef: Christian Ochoa
Ingredients:
🔥Passion
💧Sweat
Time: Oct 2017 - Ongoing
Notes: 1. The recipe is a mess
Author: Chris🎃
Recipe:
-
List your passions, skills, and possible business ideas you are interested in.
-
Choose a business name that sounds good and is available for website and all social media platforms.
-
Buy the domain name and create social media accounts under that name.
-
Design a Logo
-
Start out as a comedy youtube channel with your best friend for fun.
-
Make 1 bad video, delete it and realize this is not what you want to do.
-
Illustrate some low brow art for a mature audience to sell merch online
-
Get bored of it and look back at your other business ideas.
-
Write a 3 step business plan for another idea that starts off as a food blog that offers graphic design services with the goal of opening a cafe/book store.
-
Set up an LLC in NJ (October 2017)
-
Open up a business bank account.
-
Create a simple website and start writing funny food blogs with the help of your sister in law.
-
Design some food mascots for your brand that are different from other food characters.
-
Hire a concept artist to help you design your mascots
-
File for a name trademark when you aren't even selling anything yet.
-
Find out you don't like writing comical food recipes.
-
Get your name trademarked after running through some issues that had to be resolved with the USPTO.
-
Read the comic book Saga
-
Get inspired by it and all the years of reading manga to create your own comic book
- Redesign the Logo
-
Burn down the food blog and replace it with a comic book publishing brand that focuses on creator owned stories and sharing "recipes" aka process
-
Learn about business, branding, art, & comics from youtube mentors such as Chris Do, Jason Brubaker, and Bobby Chiu.
-
Work on a young adult epic science fantasy project that still isn't finished but will give you experience on collaborating with co-creators, worldbuilding disease, writing contracts, project management, importance of knowing your audience, comic book prologues, concept art workflows, etc. (2017)
-
Work on a smaller creator owned collaboration comic book project for a different audience (kids) that has an actual deadline and schedule. (September 2020)
-
Create pitches and start on another comic book with a creature designer.
-
Finish your 1st comic book.
-
Publish it on Kickstarter and barely fund it due to having no existing audience and not marketing it well. (November 2022)
-
Take a break from everything related to comicalfoods due to having no money and life stuff
-
Continue to learn about business and branding from the TheFutur
-
Have a kid. (2023)
-
Take a look back at your publishing journey and reflect on it.
-
Create a new plan that focuses on time management and how to keep creating stories on a low budget. (January 2025)
-
Turn your epic science fantasy comic into an illustrated novel and then into a fusion book.
-
Work on story pitches that focus on short stories
-
Pitch a sci-fi/horror story to a writer and a creature designer
-
Pitch a romantasy story to 2 writers.
-
Start a new collaboration project that is a mix of sci-fi, cli-fi, and horror. (February 2025)
-
Update your publishing website
-
Rebrand. Redesign your logo, start creating style guide and social media templates
-
Revive an old comic project to transform it into an epistolary story
-
Begin to work on setting up a Youtube channel where you share your "recipes" process for how you build a publisher and cook up stories.
-
Write this recipe. (May 2025)
