Webcomics 102: Promoting and Monetizing Your Webcomic

In an over three hour presentation, she never once failed to make a noise while drinking water. That's dedication.

3:38 Mirroring your comic has also the advantage from preservation stand point - say your main site (or any other mirror) goes down for whatever reason. Your readers can still read it elsewhere. And if the host shutdown through no fault of your own (RIP Smackjeeves), that also gives you an avenue to continue uploading your content, without having to reupload your old comics in a frantic move.

I really disagree with having patreon early being a negative thing. Everyone should have a patreon incase people like what you've already put out is worth supporting. Making art, even if it's one panel of comic is hard work, and it deserves monetary support regardless of your following. And your patreon supporters are smart, they'll know if you're not meeting their expectation

TBH I dont think having a patreon early makes people seem greedy. While small there is still a chance that people want to support you, it's still possible. When people ask for a patreon, you could've already had a few supporters by then, every bit of income can help new webcomic artists, it all depends on the person to support them. And honestly not everyone's situation is the same, and it might help them drastically change their life to have a patreon. If you dont personally trust a new comic maker with your money, thats fine and understandable, but I dont think it hurts to have one. Of course when you dont have an episode up it is unreasonable to expect patrons lol

This is really hecking helpful! Usually I hate long videos because the reason why they’re long is because the video creator doesn’t know how to compact information and about 60 percent of the video will be fluff. But this is packed to the BRIM with helpful information. Maybe it has to do with the fact that it was originally a panel? Same with part 1! I watched both all the way through. This is the best compilation of advice for web comics that I’ve seen

The tumblr tiktok mess up is funny

This was wild to watch present day and seeing how the tables have turned with the social media sites you mentioned

Funny enough, I was smashing my head for strategies for webcomics since I'll start one soon. This video gave a lot of useful insight :D

Thank you so much for doing this series! So much of this was incredibly insightful and a huge kick in the butt to me as someone who has been working on trying to make and get comics out for 15 years and has been too anxious and scarred to put my work out there. I literally printed out your slide from your previous video about "excuses you have to not make your comic" and taped it up next to my art desk. I will probably rewatch these two vids over and over from time to time to remind myself to keep going. Thank you <3

Not only am I impressed with your info, but I'm also impressed on how your character is able to animatic your talking... Tutorial please!

1:17:30 one punch man is actually an amazing example of this. The author was not very good at art! But his story stuck on so well with people that it got big enough to have an actual production around it. Granted, it started in 2009 and took YEARS to get to the point that any studio would even want to pick it up and make a proper manga, let alone produce an entire anime. But it goes to show that audiences are just as fine with an amazing story as they are with gorgeous art. If that weren't the case, comics would have been our only form of storytelling ever. EDIT: awesome, ten minutes after typing this you covered it! I love OPM's success story :)

1:35:05 MHA is arguably the opposite of x-men. x-men is a world where only a small number of people are non-mutants and the main characters are mutants. mha is a world where only a small number of people DONT have quirks, and the main character is "quirkless."

Love your video series here! Thanks for the tip about Later - I’ll def have to check it out. IMO on the Patreon, I honestly don’t think it matters if ppl set their Patreon up before they are more established as a creator. I even think ppl should set it up immediately as part of the pre-work stages. Same with setting up your email, social accounts throughout social media portals (even if you are not really planning on using that social media account, but I suggest to create one in case someone else tries to impersonate you there), and whatever else that’s part of building your online presence. I get it that we may all have different end goals - some of us just want to make this as a hobby, and others want this as a career. More props to you for being more prepared IMO 😙 but obviously, there needs to be the content to get engaged

I also came here from Twitter! This is super helpful and I really appreciate the resource, cheers!

???? I came from Twitter expecting a 10k sub art channel. THIS IS A CRIME!! WTF?!

With all the advices you give me, Im able to call you as my master! Ypu give me sooo mamy good advices and resources!! SUCH AN AMAZING TEACHER! I use to do some talks in comics cons too like yours but more in a drawing class mindset if ypu know... YOU ARE AN INCREDIBLE MASTER!!!

Thank you for creating these streams, they are super helpful for an anxious comic creator <3

That was such an awesome resource thank you! I've been struggling with marketing the comic and you've provided ideas I feel I can really put in place easily 💪

I just started a new webcomic after a several year hiatus. These tips are great. Ive been watching your stuff for tips and tricks. Thanks for this

My problem is that I don't know how to promote without spamming. Like, I don't know where's the line between the two.