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Hello everyone!
First of all let me introduce myself I'm Mario aka Afroskeleton art student from Spain and I've never did a serious comic before but now I wanted to get started sooo here it is when I need some help.

-Which way you found better to make your webcomics well known?

-Which canvas size works better in this web site? (and sites like webtoon) Scroll comics seems cool but I know almost nothing about that format.

-Cool webcomics for reference and stuff? I currently follow some but I think reading some more could help so if you know any good webcomic I would appreciated.

-"Do"s and "don't"s in general? Some of you might pass from some general errors that could be avoided, any general advice?

Thanks to take your time to read this and help me.

PS: sorry for my bad english if I made any mistake or anything similar.

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Hi! So I haven't been making my comic for very long so I'm probably not the best person to answer your questions but I will try!
I do scroll comics but I think the only rule is that the pages can only be up to 940 x 4000px and under a certain size (2MB?).
I have found Twitter and Tumblr to be useful for promoting and networking but mainly the forum is best so far!
There have been some good topics o help with networking such as:
This one5
and this one6

And for reference it think you should just look around tapastic through genres that interest you or through things such as the popular, trending and staff choice.

I hope I helped!

Thanks! It helps me, I use twitter but since I mostly tweet in spanish (and tweet a lot of shitposting) I feel like most people won't care in following me maybe I should make a serious acount or something like that.

You should give both accounts a go...I've seen a few in Spanish but it might be a good idea to have another account if you want to network more. Glad I could help!

Hey!
To answer most of your questions, I really recommend you to read the Tapastics creator guide12. A comic by Tapastic staff, they explain a lot of important stuff that's really useful for comic creators. smile

HI! Welcome to Tapastic!

I'll answer your questions according to my experience!

I got BH well know by doing lots of updates. Update often and your comic has more chances to be seen.

Here the maximum size is 940x4000, nothing can be bigger than that. But you can create your pages in any size and then resize them to upload them to Tapastic. If you plan on printing your comic in the future, I recommend following this template.5

I'll give you mine, BioHazard3, because I can't speak for anyone else. Check it out if you want. You can also go on creator's reading lists and see what each person is reading. I find cool comics by doing that.

Do's and Don'ts?? Just be nice, I guess. Everyone, for the most part, is pretty friendly here. Stay active in the community an you'll be fine.

Hi, I'm just starting so my webcomic VCvsDvsCFAD1 is not well known yet, but being active, following a schedule and sharing through facebook & twitter helps a lot.
I work with pages of 900px x 1700 px and does the job, the files cannot pass over 2mb, so if you work with colours you gotta check the size.
Do's:
Write a summary of your story before hand, in a simple maner, then try to write chapter by chapter what happens to follow that summary.
Plan your pages, not just draw and put dialogs, try to make it legible and natural to read.
Follow a schedule of updates, ex: Upload a page every day or once a week etc, try not to skip the schedule that much.
Dont's:
Even though Tapastic uses the self promotion, don't spam your comic everywhere you can, it makes people go away.

My comic Heart of Keol1 is a scroll comic, and some of my episodes get WAY longer than 940x4000 pixels. You can easily get over that limit by dividing your episode into multiple files. Going over 4000 isn't always the best choice, but it's good to know nonetheless!

I wouldn't say my own comic is well known, but it's certainly grown a ton since its beginning. Talk to people and make friends. I've seen some creators cross-promote each other by doing things together: e.g. multistreaming, guest comics, collaborations, etc. I've done a little bit of that myself, and while it didn't give me overnight popularity, it's helped a little.

But don't try to make friends just to self promote, obviously. Help people out, without expecting to get something out of it every time. Be genuine.

Shamelessly self promote where it's allowed. This forum has quite a few self promo threads if you look around. Just be sure to follow the rules of each thread. I wouldn't expect a lot from this, as your post may get buried, but it's better than nothing.

Some people have benefited from paid advertising. I've tried this... and got pretty much nothing out of it... :'D But that's probably because my banner sucked. Give it a try if you have a few dollars to spare (Project Wonderful and TWC are good places to start).

DO NOT spam people about your comic! e.g. Don't comment on somebody's comic/ profile to say "great work, now please check out my comic." Don't randomly link your comic in a forum post unless it's somehow relevant.

DO make sure your font is easy to read!!! PLEASE! It should be legible on a phone without zooming in.

Are there any particular types of comics you're looking to reference? e.g. Action? Comedy? Romance?

Thanks everyone! I'll take a look into your comics, the template helps even if I'm not planing to print it by the moment (first I have to pulish everything and get started with the comic) but maybe in the future I might change my opinion on what to do about it. The references I'm looking for it's at a visual level organization panels and that stuff mostly since I want a dinamic reading, something like hellohellper.
If I have to say a genre I would say drama/mystery and maybe even horror the comic I'm planing it's a 80's drama pixelart thing so I doubt I can find something very similar at least by myself.

Good way to get noticed is to give people quality content and promote yourself in places for it. Twitter is one nice place to meet other creators via #comicbookhour and #webcomicchat. Others here have given you some stellar advices on font and canvas sizes!

If you enjoy drama/mystery/horror then I can guide you to my comic Numb4 which is a fusion between those three genres! Though instead of pixel art it's full watercolor. Good luck with your comic smile