At the beginning of the year I was pretty secretive about my comic, but nowadays 70% of my friends know it exists. In fact I doodle my characters EVERY where - my homework, the whiteboard, the desk (oops), my tests - the teachers have learned to just accept it... And some even like them 
Eh. I draw dicks and anime cuties killing each other for a living and everyone knows it.
I'm not very private, reserved or secretive. Never seen the point and I'm nearly incapable of even telling a lie so i couldn't lie about it if I wanted 
Regarding my writing, I get crap from my supervisor because of the moleskine I carry with me. He says that my days are filled with me packing that notebook with my angst. While I have told him that I do write comics, that's all he knows. I've never shown him any, nor do I tell him what I have in the works.
Same with other people I know and family.
I tend to be reserved about myself, thinking that my talking about my projects is coming off braggy, despite the absence of my own following. If anybody asks, I'll answer. If someone wants to see what I have, I'll show them. But I won't just randomly bring up the topic and shove my content in someone's face. I've been confronted with too many people trying to sell their mixtapes in that fashion.
I'm more the "I forget to tell people stuff" type person. I have friends who would be perfectly happy to read my things but it takes me forever to actually shoot them a link because I'm too busy playing Turtles in Time with them or cooking or whatever.
There's only a few people I purposely don't show my stuff. I'm talking in-laws, etc who are sweet wonderful people but who believe that D&D is satanic and certain sexual preferences don't actually exist and several million people are just making it up. You get the idea. I think of not sharing my work as "sparing" them because they still have to interact with me, so at least I can ensure they're not picturing horrible shapeshifting alien beasts and killer schoolgirls while they're talking to me.
Realistically, I know I'm just sparing myself the conflict and sideways glances though. XD
I'm happy to share my life with people on the Internet. Pics, Snapchats, places I go, me and my. friends. I've never felt unsafe or uncomfortable doing that. But I don't tell lots of people about the comic IRL. Most people know I draw sometimes and that's all. Just feel weird otherwise.
I've always opted for the anonymity on internet because I'm shy and I prefer the criticism of people who I can't see than the ones who I meet outside, just 3 persons know about my comic "Bite" but I think in a future this will be spreaded because I want to expose and be a professional after all :c
yes, they all know, they just don't care a bit. i post my updates on facebook and not even my boyfriend give a like on it. i'm so popular XD (not)
I don’t mind telling friends and family that I draw comics. I don’t spam them tho but I also don’t hide it.
Most of them don’t really care tho, but I also never got attacked for it either. But my comic has no controversial scene’s, no sex, no politics, no violence (well...except cartoon violence xD).
The worst thing might be some cheesecake scenes and coded adult jokes. But overall I don’t see any reason to hide the comic from people who know me personally
I never used to tell people. Now I do so whenever the opportunity presents itself, and I often link them to it as well. I work in a creative industry, so it benefits me to throw my work at people from time to time, and it never hurts to have a few extra page views. I don’t usually share links with family, as they’re not typically interested, but I’m happy to show them what I’m working on most of the time.
I like when people come up to me and ask me about my work. It's always fun to share my comics or cartoons when people notice and are interested! (At least if they're interested in some goofy artwork like mine anyway XD)
I don't have any friends so nobody besides my parents and some other older family members know about my comic 
I think the majority of people know that I draw stuff at least since I am in a somewhat creative field and I have an itabag that I carry around everywhere to show off my weeb side. But I don't really go around promoting my comics since getting anyone I know to read it, I may as well be pulling out their teeth. Doesn't help that 99% of the people I know just don't have similar interests to my own. Only person I've ever had successfully read my comic is my husband. He is supportive at least.
I would talk about/promote if people were interested, but nobody is interested, so I don't bother.
I have a lot of friends I made through the years in internet who like and works in comic and as illustrators, so I talk and share thoughs about comic and drawing with them.
And with my two closest friends, in spite of they don´t belong to the world of comic, I talk a lot of my work and ask they advice (because I trust them a lot).
But I preffer keep this things away from my family, because they still thinks this is a "child thing", in spite of that I'm doing very well. And I confess I'm a little embarrassed to show them the things I draw, hahaha :_)
I don't talk about my stories with other friends, mostly because they never ask. While the internet's anonymity gives me some comfort with self-promotion, doing it in real life is way up there on my NOPE list.
Therefore, most of my friends don't know that I make comics
I don't really talk about my stories outside of my friends, who are mostly also writers/artists. I don't think anyone I know would really be interested in my stories anyways, they'd just wanna look at the drawings if anything.
I have about 3 friends who actually read the comic. Also my mom and husband read it. I've mentioned that I make a comic to some friends but I'm not interested in sharing my comic with the majority of people I know. I draw a lot of shipping art on my instagram, and I really don't want to be judged for any of it, so I tend to just keep it to myself.
I am a very shy person and I do get scared when it comes to sharing my work with people I meet IRL. My family knows I have a comic but I would not dare share it with them. I think my parents think I create "Mutts" style comics...I don't. I know if they knew I wrote stories about gays and bisexuals, they would be off putted.
I guess this sort of put me in a tough place when I tried to join a comic club IRL. I had to save the pages separately and show them instead of just giving them a link.
I would probably expend my viewers better if I advertised more to people IRL. But I guess telling people in reallife my comics are LBGT is a bit weird for me.
Currently, I'm known as the meme man that draws chinese cartoons.
My school has a study room for senior students, and in that study room is a retractable wall of whiteboards. Whenever I feel like it, I draw something elaborate and stupid on them - people don't seem to mind them so far.
An acquaintance of mine thinks that the chinese cartoons I draw are mortal sin and will sometimes try to hunt me down if he stays back after school (Quote: "If you stop now, you can still go to heaven.")
On the subject of telling people I draw things - I don't make too much of a fuss over it, and since I used to draw very often in the earlier years of high school, I'm pretty much known as the guy that can draw.
One thing I've learned is that, if you know how to deal with them, people don't annoy you so much if they know you can draw. Whenever someone asked me to draw them, I'd draw a trashy doodle of them as a joke - they're happy enough with just something like that.
I'm a bit of a living contradiction tbh xD
like, I want to tell more of my friends that I make comics, but at the same time I kinda don't want them to know because I'm scared that they'll make fun of it or something. Only two of my close friends know about it and they both read it, though one of them is more invested than the other. I'd love to ask them for more feedback, so I know what I might need to work on, but agh, I'm too nervous to ask
My siblings know about it too and they read my comic, but I don't think they expect it to be that good because it's me? Sometimes they joke about the things that happen, but I know they don't mean any harm, they're quite supportive mostly.
but yeah, I guess I'm quite private about it, but it'd be really nice if I could just blabber on about comics to at least one person. making comics is a pretty isolated thing, and it's just nice to have some company :'o
