For how long do you plan your comic/series to run for?

[Ayumi]

Dreamcatchers is my first comic, which I'm drawing for around 10 years, because I'm so slow. It will have 27 chapters, and I'm drawing now the 21st chapter. I hope I can finish it in 2-3 years.. X.X

Furusato House will be 6 volume (I imagined how would I divide it if it would be printed, but of course it won't be, haha :D), with 32 chapter. I'm coloring the 16th chapter, so half of it is still left. I'm sure I can finish Dreamcatchers someday, but I don't know how long would it take to finish Furusato House. So I just try to draw as much chapter as I can.

And in the future? Well, I can only dream about it right now, but I have so many other story I wanna draw.

[rmdooley]

At the pace I'm going at, probably into the next century.

[PennieWagner]

Well, with my Other Realm series as a whole (with all the inside-series and stories I have left planned to work on in my head), a good....30, 40 years? Just with the Frost Family Series I'm working on now, it'll be 6-7 books. Plus I need to do a series for the Canis, Fae, and Westa families. Then there's the individual stories exploring the "Human Rights Act" brought about by Lady Nisha Frost, as well as the Souls story and the (possible?) series Switched at Death may turn into. Let alone the 7 other stories/series I only have a tiny inkling about and so have no real plans for. Oh! Yes, I almost forgot. I have to keep reminding myself that Slendie (Slender Man) needs his own story as well. Too many readers enjoyed his character not to.
But, yes...Oh my, I have my work cut out for me.
Seeing it all laid out there in plain words really is quite intimidating. But! In a year I finished the 1st drafts of 5 of the Frost Family books, so that's something at least! Now to keep up my efforts getting the 2nd drafts of them worked through and finished.

[aqua03]

For the two long webcomics I'm working on (Edible Green Tea and the WIP DRGN), I have a sort of "dry-run" length of strips/episodes I plan for and when I complete that initial run, I'll see if I want to continue with them. I also write down future plans in advance in case I want to continue past my dry run period.

FOR EXAMPLE: I'm planning on doing at least 100-ish strips of Edible Green Tea for sure, and have a lot of ideas for story arcs and future strips planned out after those first 100-ish if decide I want to continue it.

[spadesart]

im about....16% finished with season 1/the first main arc of spire, there's two planned parts/seasons/arcs, the first one is the longer of the two at about 18 estimated chapters. its probably gonna be a super long term project, at least over 5 more years of work. after that i have a prequel planned for the story that takes place 2000 years before the comic.

[fleohr]

I think it depends, if you say updating it weekly or monthly

My comic has 16 episodes so far, with 30~45 panels per episode, running for about 4~5 months, if everything goes well, it will be running for almost a year!

[SteamTK]

who knows

I'll probably stop when I run out of ideas

[MK_Wizard]

I am aiming for it to be four books long. No more no less.

[Shanny8]

Not entirely sure. I know it's gonna be longer than 5 yrs, but my plan is still a little murky if it'll be between 10 or 15. Right now I'm brainstorming over the ending- one ending could be "that's that" while the other ending could lead to a whole new story altogether.

[vfinnigan]

My September 11 mini will end on September 11. Go figure.

As for Tiger on the Storm, since I've got a lot of pages left to post and I'm only posting weekly, that will go on for another year or so.

Once I get the Real Women of the US Military up and going, I could keep that going indefinitely as long as I keep paying my illustrator.

[vworksart]

Most likely a good couple years. I have a huge story in mind and after drawing the first 3 chapters, I can already tell the scope is a lot bigger than I had planned initially.

[LT1986]

Thank you for making the forum topic. Right now I've been on a pace to finish in ten years. The time might become extended, because my sagas are becoming longer and I spend more time on each page to try to constantly improve my artwork. If I go ahead and fuse another story that I've written with Warrior's Triumph, I could be working on the web comic for about twenty years.

[lil-sea-salt]

I've never really thought that far out.

Most of mine are just series . . . they'll go on as long as I have idea or saturated everything there is to explore in that world . . . or that I'm tired of torturing the main character and they've matured to a point where I feel like they've moved on.

I have several series running in tandem. I write whichever I have a good idea for. I'm lucky in that I have nice audiences on a couple so my readership doesn't mind which I update. I always add little bonus series when I can so my readership can see me try new things.

[baasinsimple]

Main Comic: Ending at the very earliest mid-2019- mid-2021 range and latest: a while from now
My fan project based off Bleach: Definitely July 2019-Early 2020

The Main comic is at least going to be 90 chapters (130-150 episodes) with frequent breaks and schedules revolving around my school sched and my Fan Comic is only going to be at most 120 or so episodes.

P.S. My chapters are rather short to be like book chapters (around 60 pages) they're more like 10-30 pages at most so I can do them in only a couple uploads, or even just one episode occasionally, so I feel like getting that far in will be much easier for me than a mass majority of writers on this platform.

[ninrhusajha]

Not sure, at least six story arcs. Halfway through first one. It's one of those things that has a very clear end post.

Might as well plug it. If you like spooky mystery stuff, here it is, but I only update monthly (15+ pages)

Murky Deeds | Tapas

[NiKons]

I hope 2-3 years but sth tells me that Secret of Death is going to be waay longer than that xD

[sushy00]

People plan that? I never planned anything like that I only plan things if it is client work or a project that is to be printed.

[Rosso]

took me ~4 months and i'm not even done with the first chapter yet :") which is fine this is all new to me and i am still learning BUT!

I have a rough draft of NO MORE than 20 chapters over 2 seasons.
worst case scenario it'll be a ~20 years project and i am absolutely NOT DOWN FOR THAT! 8")

i'll try to condense things to the best of my abilities (less than 20 chapters hopefully? shorter chapters??) i have a lot of of stories to tell and i wanna see it finished in my own lifetime LOL. I know i'll get more efficient as time goes but it's kinda hard to keep up when you already have a full-time job and other time consuming hobbies.

[Freemints30]

Well I have finally finished 50% of my script now, and my heaven, your heaven, has only have probably 10% of that material. Really my comic was originally 21 chapters (11 pages, not counting cover and end pages). However with how my script is it might be 25-30 chapters(11-13 pages, not counting cover and end pages).
This is going to take a while.....

[Wumbl]

I know my comic has another year or so to go... I've been at it for a year and a half so far.