Are you a reader or creator?

[muskitten]

So I have been on Tapas forums for quite some time but I have noticed that most of the people here are fellow creators. How do I really find the audience who are just coming to read cuz ik that most of the comic creators are busy to binge read webtoons and stuff.

[mrtoontastic]

As a creator myself, the only answer is...

[TheGentleArtist]

You are going to have to advertise outside of Tapas to get more readers in.

Also for your question, I am both.

[Yulek]

you can try and get them from outside the platform by crossposting on instagram and co

also something like cameos and guest comics will help sharing readers with another creator!

[BlairFujin]

You can promote your stuff on social media, hope that people will stumble upon your work on their own whenever you appear in the fresh section...and I guess you could try collabing with someone and thus copromoting each other. I wouldn't focus too much on this forum when it comes to gaining readership as it is filled with mostly creators.

[foxnflames]

Interact with other people under other creators’ stories or comment in general. If people see you a lot they’ll assume you’re a creator as well and typically check your stuff out. If you have a few creator friends to collab with, that increases visibility. And you may get lucky and have someone promo you under their story.

Cross promoting is good and social media is a toss up, but I’ve found that genuinely engaging with other people helps tremendously

[Kaydreamer]

Your best bet for getting a larger proportion of non-creators reading your work is to promo off-site. Reddit, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter are all pretty good, and I'm noticing the more effort I put into those, the more my readership trickles up.

The best part about Insta and TikTok, is that TikToks and Reels are the same thing, so if you make a reel for TikTok you can just post it to Instagram and call it a day. Low effort, high return. I do that thing where you put your sketch layer over your finished work and erase it. Do that for each panel of a new webcomic episode, and you'll easily have enough content to last for a week or two, depending on how often you post them. Because I'm on an iPad, I can make one of those in less than 5 minutes.

[muskitten]

I have hard a lot about TikTok but sadly the app is banned in my country : (

[iHateFridays]

Well, both actually XD I read a lot of comics lol. Most creators do read other comics as well XD Try checking out some of the promotion forms and such.

[Dialusion]

Creator.

Mostly I have to make time to just sit and read comics/manga/find new music for two reasons. One, it's genuinely because I don't have the time and that's not including production time. If I knew the ultimate answer in finding readers that wasn't "just self-promote, advertise, interact but be sensible and know when and where." I'd probably let no one know just so I could have the edge. Your guess is as good as mine.

Second, as a creator, I want to make sure I study and learn from everything I put my time into. Especially artistic works. I want to give fellow creators respect by really looking at panels, consider their production, fully engross myself in their work, as well as see little tricks they use that I could as well. Not just newer series, but classics as well. For me, I read, watch and listen more as a study then as basic entertainment. Which can sound super pretentious, but I wanna get better and besides actually doing it, studying the arts is the next best thing.

[crossedvessel]

We have the same situation lol tiktok banned us too

[lomcia]

both. I like to draw comics and also read them ;p

[gokoohan]

I am in same boat I have same thought that creator were busy with their project so it would be great if reader read my manga/comic and also my series is thriller so most of reader in tapas is not cup of my tea(or cup of my taste)

[MeltingCORE]

I'm another one whose both! I write but I also love supporting other creators. I've read and donated to so many good series on this site already.