Does anyone have any series that are much more popular than their others?

[AdrenalineShots]

As I do an anthology I'm noticing a difference in popularity between some of the stories, which is becoming quite significant... has anyone else noticed this and have they got any theories on the reasons behind the difference?

[abbastudios]

The quality of the story and art determine popularity.

[Kayke]

I think the length factors in too. If you have a comic with a lot of updates it will get more attention than one with fewer updates.

[Wishjacked]

I have two very small and young comics on Tapastic (SO TAKE MY INFO WITH A GRAIN OF SALT!!!), one of which has 30ish followers (Cargo) and one of which has 100ish (Crow Summer). While Crow Summer is a good bit newer and has far fewer updates, I put a lot more time into it so it's much higher quality. I'd say another big difference is the fact that I've never ever promoted Cargo but I've spent months talking about Crow Summer. Three different CS readers have written me and said they didn't realize I made another comic. Now those people read Cargo, too, but it took them a lot longer to see it because I never put it on their radar.

[GesuGesu]

Rabbit Boy has only 168 subs, as a suspense/drama (black n white)
Features shota boy, creepy pedo teacher, animal cruelty in a story of karma circles

I Don't Want to Become a Manga Protagonist!! has 958 subs, as a parody/comedy series of a popular idea (full colour)
Manga tropes are subverted by a pink-haired girl who takes no shits

Kemonomimi Playground has 1494 subs, as a BL/comedy series (full colour). Well, it's BL. That speaks for itself.
Cat/Fox/Wolf/any animal-eared boys and their bromantic antics

The difference between 168 and 1494 subs is pretty big. It's probably because of genre and the quality of my art(?) I do think that full-colour is more attractive than black and white.

[Jabbage]

Because I'm a short story kinda 'gal (my stories seem to naturally want to fit into about 50 pages, it's weird) I've got multiple projects under my belt to compare and its really interesting. I'll talk about them in chronological order, so you might expect the number of subs to go up as I gather more followers. (Spoiler: that's not exactly what's happened!)

The Art of Monsters - Black and white fantasy comic, 50 pages. 62 subs

This was my first comic so the art is a little wonky, and also it's not in colour. It does have a weird looking monstery lead character though!

https://tapastic.com/series/Breaking-the-LoreBreaking the Lore - Full colour fantasy comic, 50 pages, 93 subs -

We're into full colour, I carried over some subscribers from my old comic, so as you might expect numbers went up a teeny tiny bit. But not much.

Marginalia - Full colour, slice of life/autobiographical, 416 subs. FOUR. PAGES.

So... yeah, I write all these crazy fantasy stories and put months of planning and effort into them and then a quick comic I did as a filler in between "big" projects ended up being the sub-magnet, comparatively. You have no idea how tempting it was to switch to just this comic and dump all my other plans!!! But I had a story I wanted to tell so I went ahead with...

The Trapper Lad - Full colour, drama/historical, ongoing. Currently 14 pages. 69 subs.

So those extra subs didn't follow me to my next project - fair enough, it's a very different comic.

When I've finished the Trapper Lad I'm probably going to return to Marginalia. But I'm conflicted about writing a comic about my own life, and I think my happiness at getting more readers will always be tinged with a little sadness that my personal favourite projects weren't so popular.

[momoriin]

I got two series.

DECC : Created 2 years ago | FANTASY | Manga Style/black and white | updates done in installments/page by page and the quality of my art was pretty low. It's got only 232 subs | it's on hiatus for 2 years too but I'm planning to revamp soon.

OUTSIDE THE BOX : Created 2 months ago | ROMANCE |Fully coloured/Webcomic/vertical style | Updates done every 1-2 weeks(or more) as whole episodes/chapters | The art quality is still not too good but it's much better than my first one as I put more effort into it. | It's got 2614 subs

The difference between them is huge QAQ

In my case, not saying it's the same for everyone, it's probably the art, the story, the genre, and the number of chapters released. For outside the box, I got 12 chapters and so readers already got enough to judge whether they want to sub or not... as opposed to DECC that's got 2 chapters done and nothing happened yet and the releases are slow and spontaneous. The quality between the two is also apparent and perhaps, the colored comic is more eye catching. Then again, it's still also about exposure so as long as I update, more people will see the comic. Since I stopped with decc, the sub count also slowed considerably.

[Zetsubonii]

Jim's Days has the most viewed of the 2 series I have with 918 while having only 17 subscribers

However, Danganronpa FM: Half Past Despair Side Stories has only 320 views but surpasses Jim's Days by having 39 subscribers (If you wanna check this out, I moved it to another account: Zetsukuma)

I think it's because of the fact that more people are interested in fanfiction than original content, however, I post more frequently on Jim's Days these days due to an inspiration burst ^^"

[thomassayle]

yes, my main comic to which the only reason I joined tapastic has 15 which is a shortish story. While my gag comic has 50.

[AdrenalineShots]

Thanks all, some really interesting statistics there. I think that the point about colour is particularly interesting - with one of my comics I go with black and white as I feel it's more atmospheric, but it may be leading to less views... interesting!

Thanks

Danny