 Jeff Schuetze ("Jeffbot") said that he knows many people who were trying to sell a large amount of merchandise before having even started their webcomic.According to a 2015 survey by David Harper, over 80 percent of webcomic creators he questioned are unable to make a living off their work, as the majority of his respondents made less than $12,000 USD a year off their work.Very few professional webcomic creators set out to earn a living from their work initially.