Comics in other lenguages in Tapas?

[sybaritemouse]

Hello creators,

My native lenguage is Spanish, that's why sometimes I have problems with the translation of my comics. Sometimes the humor doesn't fit right in English.

So my question is...
What do you think of having comics in other lenguages on tapas? Do you think it might work or not?

Are there any comics in other lenguages with success?

And also this is my comic, if you want to see what I'm talking about:

The Sybarite Mouse | Tapas

Thanks

[Iris-Grimoire]

It can work, but be aware it's a lot of extra work that might not have as much return. I update Splitting Image in both English and Brazilian Portuguese, and I translate the entire text by myself, redo all the bubbles when necessary, and do marketing posts with both languages where applicable. And of course, the english version is the more popular one by far, but I still have followers in the one from my native language and my friends and colleagues do read through that one so they understand all the terms and jokes I localized on my own.

[faisalhussein394]

Although my language is Arabic, I choose English for everyone to read but someday, a different language may occur in my comic but not separately. For example if a non Arab who doesn't understand what Arabs are saying, the bubble text will reveal Arabic words instead of English words

[amberberry]

There are some comics with other languages. I for example, have seen Spanish, Portuguese and Russian comics.
I think they can work depending on the language. Spanish is a pretty popular and lot spoken language so having a Spanish comic could work. But English comic would probably gain more readers.

[sybaritemouse]

Thanks Iris-Grimoire. It is really helpful for me to see an example.
I understand now how it works.

Maybe I will grow first the followers in the English version and then start uploading in both lenguages.

[sybaritemouse]

Interesting. The advantage in uploading it in Spanish is that I already have all the comics in that lenguage. The comics I upload in Tapas are a translation of the originals in Spanish. So it won't be double work.

I will consider this option. Thank you for your comments

[sybaritemouse]

Cool, that would be interesting. That's a good idea.

[Anithia]

Im a spanish speaker and my english sometimes is not good.. this is a great question by the way. I want to know, what kind of translation metod did you use. I had recived a suggestiin to improve the flow on my redaction, but i dont know anybody that could help me with i, so iwant to try by myself

[sybaritemouse]

I'm going to answer in Spanish this one...

Sí, lo que más se me complica a mi es que a veces la traducción exacta no es graciosa en inglés. Entonces primero intento traducirlo textualmente y si me parece que no genera el humor que quiero busco adaptar un poco el texto o la idea para que también en este idioma sea gracioso. Después de hacer estos ajustes copio mi texto en alguno de los traductores en internet como google o Cambridge para ver que esté correcto el texto. Si mi escritura en Inglés se traduce correctamente a lo que pensé en Español entonces ese es mi texto final.

Si es doble trabajo por eso me gustaría saber si funcionaría un cómic en español. Ya que el cómic que estoy subiendo en tapas es una traducción del que ya tengo en Español, entonces sería mucho más fácil subir el original o en todo caso ambos.

Mira este es mi cómic de tapas:

The Sybarite Mouse | Tapas

Y este es el cómic original en instagram:

Ratón Sibarita (@ratonsibarita) • Instagram photos and videos

Ahí puedes ver algunas comparaciones de como he traducido algunos. (En el instagram tienes que bajar mucho hasta los primeros jaja)

Espero te sirva mi opinión y me gusta saber que hay personas interesadas en cómics en Español

[Anithia]

Me gusta el humor que manejas.
Tambien me gusto la idea de publicar ambos, creo que asi tendria mas alcance. Aparte de que mis traducciones no son muy buenas y cambia de cierta manera la escencia de lo que se quiere decir.

Y ya luego iniciamos un post para publicidad de comics en español

[sybaritemouse]

Sí, me parece buena idea. Ya me suscribí a tu cómic para seguir lo que haces también.

Cualquier cosa seguimos en contacto