A complete article about how to promote your comics in 2018

[Kotopopi]

Hello fellow comic creators.
I just finished 2 articles that have the ambition to include everything that a comic artist must know on how to promote his/her comic online nowadays.
Please have a look and if you have anything to add, do it in the comment section of my website. I will include the information in the article and give you a shout out at the end.
If you like them and you know other people who could benefit from them, please share
One it's more of an introduction to comics online, the other one digs more into promotion and marketing.
Have a good read!

“How to” webcomics in 2018 – INTRODUCTION

“How to” wecomics in 2018 – PROMOTION

[IdiotWithPencil]

thank you this is much appreciated in here =D

also the links seem kind of broken =/

[mpiradarada]

This looks super detailed and helpful! Thanks for taking the time to write it.

Although, I don't know if it's just with me but the links don't seem to be working.

[Kotopopi]

I don't know what happened, I think it has something to do with the fact that I have added the url to the links in the forum interface. Anyway it should be fine now!

[Laht]

Yup, now the links are working fine for me. It's super fun and friendly to read!

[A-weird-girler]

I kinda did need this today

[Kotopopi]

Thank you

[Nimloth]

@Kotopopi GlobalComix is missing from your comics publishing websites list / comparison: http://bit.ly/2GF8TJa

How do you rank it in comparison?

[Kotopopi]

I just became aware of it after I published the article and I didn't have the time yet to make an account and try it (I usually don't talk about stuff that I don't know). DId you try it and wanna give a feedback? Can you explain how it works? I could add it in the article.

[Nimloth]

I just became aware of it after I published the article and I didn't have the time yet to make an account and try it (I usually don't talk about stuff that I don't know). DId you try it and wanna give a feedback? Can you explain how it works? I could add it in the article.

Being one of the creators of the site, I'd be a little biased in ranking Rather have it be unbiased and truthful

[NanettesClouds]

REad the second article and it’s great, full of useful advice. Def gonna start implementing some of this once my comic returns from its break.

One thing I noticed though is that there’s a small factual error in regards to tapas tipping, you wrote that you have to contact staff to get it activated, and that’s no longer the case. I think now it’s that you need to have ad revenue enabled and also 200 subscribers. During tipping events they sometimes make exceptions if you are below that threshold , and if you contact them directly they’ll enable tipping for you. So yah :v

[LittleMissDevil]

Super interesting and a lot of helpful advice. Thanks for sharing

As many new comic artists, I know that promoting yourself is important, but it's not always easy to see how to do it. I don't have business experience nor do I know anything about marketing. I'd rather just draw and hope for the best, because promoting yourself is hard and takes a lot of time Articles like this help, because they fill the term "promote yourself" with actual things to do. Some advice really hit home for me. I wish I had read an article like this before starting my comic. (For example I knew after the first year that calling my comic "The Machinist" was a stupid idea due to the popular movie with the same name, but now I am stuck with it).

If you come into the webcomic business without professional background the work process of promoting yourself just seems overwhelming. All the time you need to put into it detracts from the thing you really want to do (which is drawing, I would assume). This article is very comprehensible and I am glad you shared it. Still will be tough for me to implement all the tips, but it's good to have this good of a reminder

[Kotopopi]

I'm definitely correcting this, thank you for your help!

[Kotopopi]

Also, you're getting a shout out for this what's your comic's name?

[NanettesClouds]

Aww thanks :v it’s Skeletons In The Closet I would link it but I’m on my phone rn :s

EDIT: Not on my phone anymore :V here's a link https://tapas.io/series/Skeletons-in-the-Closet

also I do minicomics and I've got some new ones launching in March :V but SitC is my main project right now.

[Rhombik]

Thanks - Didn't know about stumble and will be trying that.

[feuersichel]

This was really helpfull, Thank you! I think I need to do some more work with social media and stuff. Or maybe I stick with my smal readerbase until I've redrawn some more pages (the cringe is tooo big xD )