For those who have more than one ongoing comic, what's your secret?

@darthmongoose Kate Holden
Thu, 29 Oct 2020 09:48:57 +0000

@darthmongoose wrote:

As Ron Swanson said in "Parks & Recreation":

"Don't half-ass two things; whole-ass one thing."

In other words, if you can't get the sort of level of quality in your work with the time you have where it looks polished enough to get noticed, featured and build an audience, unless your goal is simply to make these stories without caring about whether anyone actually reads them, don't.
There are some creators on the site who make two popular ongoing comics, like Lord Vincent (Crimson Tracks and Moonshine) but that's doable because those comics are popular enough that making them is his full-time living, and he was able to do that because he started out making one very polished comic that got enough attention and traction on the site to launch a career doing it full time.

On my side of things, I have a part time job as a Creative Associate (a sort of mix of editor, copywriter, illustrator and games designer) at a kids edutainment company I do three days a week that covers my rent and bills. The other days I make my comic. It'd be cool to get up to 2000 subs and pitch a Tapas premium comic, but until I get to a point where comics pay my rent, I'll just work on making the one I have really good. I can make another comic when I complete this one.