Did your family know you're making a web comic? (Answered)

[Badmusic]

I feel bad about your comic being burned, I hope you'll reach a point when you can handle doing your comics without any fear of someone might found out about them.. it's sad to hear. I never shared my work with my family, I used to ask them to read my short stories when I got them published online long time ago, but I Notice they're so judgy! like "you shouldn't write that" or "talk about that," so when I start making comics, I wanted to keep'em only to myself and people who's will read online.

[sushy00]

They know now, but I used to keep it all a secret. Personally I would prefer it if they don't know because then I feel more 'free' in drawing what I draw. Now I have to keep in mind they may be reading it.

[NickRowler]

My family does know I make comics however I don’t let them read it because my parents are super harsh and might not be happy with how rude or gay some of the characters are. I think they think my comics are something inoffensive like Mutts. I don’t want to tell my siblings because they will just tell my parents.

I’m fine showing my stuff to strangers because I don’t have to deal with them IRL.

[M.ComicFan]

Actually, I meant publishing physically; like as an actual comic book printed on paper.

[LadyN]

My mom knows of my comic, but doesn’t know it’s online and posted on the internet. Same for some of my other stories. She just thinks it’s me drawing because why not. On the other hand, my dad doesn’t. Funny since he’s more supportive of my art and writing then my mom is. Feel bad for not telling him about my webcomic. More of my friends know of my story than them.

[AmandaJ-art]

It's a print on demand service so it is an actual comic book that is printed on paper

[M.ComicFan]

I see, is it expensive?

[Shanny8]

My family knows I make a webcomic, but it's not like I'm dying to share it with them. If they wanna read it, all they have to do is ask, and I'll tell them where to find it...they also know I print & sell my comics at conventions.

[AmandaJ-art]

I think you can buy your comics for the base price (The price that costs to make it)

It's free to post them there though. You just have to make sure you format the pages correctly for printing purposes. There are many tutorials online.

[M.ComicFan]

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind, but for now I'll post my comic on Tapas and see how it goes.

[AmataLenna]

My parents don't know and they won't. Theyve never really been supportive or nice and well super conservative southern Baptist parents and a (eventually) gay horror webcomic won't mix. I'll keep them out of it like everything else

[Iris-Grimoire]

My family knows about it, but they don't really care; webcomics are an alien concept to the majority of them. My parents like that I'm keeping myself busy with something fun, but they aren't reading it until I print out a whole chapter even though they use phones all the time.

[DiegoPalacios]

I was lucky to have an extremely supporting and encouraging family, so i never had to keep it a secret.

Also, the fact that i am pretty upfront and attentive about age ratings of my stories saves everyone any chance of uncomfortable moments.

[faisalhussein394]

Oh, I got some people who treat me better, it's not much, but it is a start and thank you very much for the subscribe!

[toonben]

Mostly my siblings, my cousins, and some of my relatives. I often work in secret.

[Darth_Biomech]

My family does know, but my mom was absolutely indifferent for the genre I've drawing in (science fiction), and my father is largely not interested in keeping tabs on it but still asks for a link to it every now and then to embarrassingly boast to various people about it. I honestly don't know what's the point of boasting that your 30+ jobless son spends all his free time drawing silly childish things, but he has his reasons I guess...
Tried to get some feedback on the upcoming story once before, printed it out for them to read, my mom didn't offered anything concrete nd my dad it seems just forgot to read it and that was it.

No, my webcomic isn't religious at all!They just hate comic (I can't even buy comic book from bookstore) and I don't know why. Maybe they have something bad in the past about it and didn't want me to end up like them..? Hmm, I don't know but they always asked me to be a doctor or pharmacist or a teacher. It is a bit suffocating and yet I'm just glad they didn't disowned me for drawing as hobby now. They finally accept that drawing is my hobby when I was 17 and before I was 17, I always draw at school only. If I draw at home during that time, I might have just dig my own grave​

Hot damn, this is messed up. I've would probably wanted to move out of such toxic environment and to get as far as I can.

[Verrell_Rain]

Yep and my mom said "well you made comics when you were young, love writing stories, wanted to make a video game, and wanted to make a movie. I'm not surprised. Just try to see if there's a way you can make money." Lmao.

[ButterflyEmpress]

I've been trying to keep it a secret since my comic is a bit weird and not exactly family friendly. My nephew has an instagram and webtoon account and found out about it. Now my mom just started following me on insta too.

[spadedigsbutts]

I’ve let one couple in my family read some pages I had...and my mom knows I make comics....but I don’t tell anyone I post stuff online at all I just don’t really want them reading my stuff tbh haaaaaa

[Rhonder]

Wow, terribly sorry to hear that your family burned your last one :0 It still amazes me that people do that sort of thing, but even I have a friend whose parents burned all of her Pokemon cards when she was a kid because her dad was like "Pokemon/video games are for boys only!"...

That said, on topic!

Yeah several members of my family are aware that I make comics! At the very least my parents, but I'm sure several other people have seen when I rarely share about it on Facebook and such as well (I have an art page and from time to time share posts from it on my personal page). I thankfully never have had a reason to hide what I'm doing from my folks (who I lived with up until this year) but it would have been super hard to since my comic required so much time to make each week I suppose I could have just shut the door and lied about playing video games or something instead but... especially working in physical medium it would have been a challenge haha.