Do you guys post per page or per episode?

[Kura]

For my older series it's just page by page, because that's how I've been releasing them for years and I don't really want to change up what I already have established, it would also require me to redraw a lot of old panels and pages to make them fit a vertical scrolling format (or even if I want to do any work on them in general, I use different programs now than I did when first starting webcomics). If I brought in more money from tapastic I would be more inclined to put the extra work in to make Raven Wolf fit the preferred scrolling format of the site more. For now though I can't justify the extra time and work a project like that would need (it would interfere with my current projects, slowing them down or putting them on hold).

For my newer comic I have both a page by page version No Future , and an episodic version No Future - Vertical (it's not just multiple pages though, I rework the text and panels to take advantage of the extra freedom you get with a scrolling canvas / get experience doing the scrolling format)

In concern to the comic with two versions, the page by page is a lot more popular (the page by page version has about 520 subscribers, while the episodic version has around 70), the page by page also has a much more active audience. It of course gets more updates and sees more exposure in the fresh, trending and popular sections, also brings more ad-revenue in (it's also ahead in the story BECAUSE of the page by page updates) and I find when comparing the two people like commenting on pages more than they do full episodes, (my guess is because there's less to focus on so they know exactly what it is they want to leave a comment on)

Some people just like reading it one way over the other, so exposure / add revenue aside, in regards to creation there are things I both like and hate about both, and on the reader end if people are interested in reading both versions I'll continue working on both.

[jaymkidd]

good to know! thanks!

[jaymkidd]

interesting! so you believe you reach more people by updating page-by-page?

[sonyateach]

I usually go episode by episode for my weekly and monthly. Although right now I'm putting out a bonus chapter over several episodes to make up for older work.

[blastryoku]

I usually upload page by page so while tapastic says that i have 45 episodes i'm only in chapter 8.

[AkaOkami]

For me, I've always tried to upload chapter by chapter mainly so the readers don't feel the need of having to check in every day for the next x number of days just to finish the chapter. I think it's probably easier to the readers if it was released all at once.

But then again, I guess uploading it one at a time gives the readers the choice of chasing it daily or wait for it all to be out.

[aspiderjonny]

I've been posting one ep=one page with usually (hopefully) two pages every week. I try to finish two pages a week in advance, but sometimes stuff happens inbetween. Recently I've made Chapter versions of my comics, one episode=one chapter, because I know some people perfer a whole chapter. I usually update that at the end of the week a something.

[bmacbride]

Lately I've just been posting complete "scenes" altogether because Tapastic doesn't really have a good way to add new pages to an existing chapter yet. And for long-form comic creators, the episode list would get way too cluttered if we continued to update page-by-page. But I hear staff is working on that!

[goenn]

Hurray! I post page by page so this is good news.

[Jrej]

Haha I do both!!!
I do recommend posting by page to get more exposure and views for the whole series.
But posting by episode gives a smoother experience for the reader!

I basically have the same experience as @kurapikasuki! Very well summed up!

[DuneDeca]

I currently post page by page, but as a new user here, it's a bit intimidating. Posting feels like it was really meant for comic "strips" and less for the page comics. The layout makes posting single pages feel pretty awkward, but it's probably because I'm not used to it.

[AyanoTanaka]

It normally takes me a month or so to finish a chapter so I split it into parts and update those part every week, though since Cursed Messiah is on hiatus right no since my tablet's broken I can't do anything about parts and chapters right now.

[UltHamBro]

I started uploading three pages per episode to be able to catch up with the pages I had already done. I now update one page per episode.

[AnnaLandin]

I upload a single page at the time (that is, one page per "episode"), every Monday and Friday, and I have no plans to collect them into episodes. I find it's good because that means my comic is visible in the fresh-feed twice a week, instead of whenever I have time to finish a whole chapter, and because it's easier to navigate through for my readers. Instead of endless scrolling (some of my chapters are quite long) and keeping track of exactly where in that endless scroll they are, they can simply navigate page by page.

Also, having grown up reading traditional comics, my pages are structured to be read one at the time, as though turning the pages of a book; it allows me to do things like cliff-hangers and dramatic reveals simply because the pages are only visible one at the time.

[GFalconDX]

For me, it's definitely 1 page per episode since I'm trying to keep up a schedule of posting a page per week.

[MGO]

Per page. If it was per episode I'd update twice a year ;U;

[UzukiCheverie]

Page by page, with the completion of each chapter at the end of every month (averaging to about 18-22 pages; I don't post on weekends, so this means I'm usually able to finish a chapter in the last week or last day of the month).

Although I'm thinking of switching to a chapter a week. This would mean a LOT of work though and I wouldn't be able to accomplish this unless I made comic-ing my full time job. So I'm gonna see what happens after I finish school and only have to worry about part time at Starbucks. If I can make more money with Time Gate and afford to live off it, this is something I really want to consider doing. I did the math too - if I continue to do monthly chapters, Time Gate: Reaper alone will take about 6 and a half years to complete, and that was just me guessing the chapter amount (as I don't know how many chapters it's gonna need until it's done); off that same estimation, if I do it weekly, Time Gate: Reaper will finish in roughly a year and a half and I'll be able to continue the series at a much more comfortable pace, and maybe I'll be able to finish it before I grow old and die

[dark_axion]

Some time ago I released the comic of mine (currently undergoing reboot) with a one-page per week update. Now I'm thinking that maybe it would be better for me and the comic's story to update it per chapter like other big artists (mangaka) are used to do it.

(This time I won't rush into the comic creation)

[SpavVy]

I try to go by 3 pages but I move them up into the episode above later on.

[Skyler]

And how would it be to upload one comic in two versions? One with chapters split into few parts for readers who prefer to read comics that way, and one upaded when whole chapter is ready? Then the readers would be able to choose which version they'd rather subscribe to.