Have you every considered printing your webcomic/novel?

[esquarecomics]

Have you ever considered printing your webcomic/novel? Would you change some parts of your story for the printed adaptation? What would you add or subtract from your story? How would you sell and publish it? If you print a comic would you rearrange the panels or remake the comic from the ground up?

[igneriss]

Years ago when I started drawing my webcomic, I chose format in a way that it would be good for printing later. I still have separate files with proper margins, resolution etc I even know which chapters would go to the first volume, and tried to keep chapters' length quite similar (...so the volumes are also quite similar).
But during the years that I've been drawing, my priorities shifted and I printing it out is no longer my goal. I mean, seeing it printed would probably be cool, but not enough for me to put additional energy into that I still keep printable files, just in case I change my mind, but I don't really think about it and enjoy the freedom of random chapters' length and impulsively adding/removing content.

[N1ghtm4r3]

i do intend to print some though sparringly that way i cna have a hard copy of my work, plus give soem to friends and maybe try sell some

[river121693]

my comic's final form is a book volume. I actually work on them in book form and change them for webcomic; It's much easier than the vice versa. I actually don't think my story matches well with the majority of tapas/ webtoon readers due to its slow pace as a fantasy epic. I'm competing with other more exciting and fast-paced stories. If they were to be stuck with a book they've bought on the other hand... >_>
I wanna sell it at conventions and through other distributers (bookstores and online) if they're interested.

[darthmongoose]

Already did it!

In my case, I was given the advice before I started making the comic, that it's way easier to make your pages in page format, and then to spread out the panels in a long scroll than to upload panels as a long-scroll and then try to arrange them into pages, so since I'd planned from the start to print a book, that's how I approached it.

The only changes in the print book of Errant are:

• It's in CMYK colour (so I had to tweak some of the bright colours to work, and it's generally a little duller... but people who haven't read the web version are still always like "waaaa-! So colourful!!!").
• It's at 300DPI and without the Tapas compression, so the art is sharper.
• One or two awkward early panels from the first pages where I wasn't settled into the art style were tweaked.
• The text and speech bubbles are smaller, because they don't need to be readable on a phone screen about half the size of a page, and need to be smaller because I don't have the extra gutter space.
• One or two lines of dialogue have been tweaked for grammar or feeling slightly out of character.

Mostly though, it's fairly close, so....

WEB:

PRINT:

I funded the print run on Kickstarter, and now sell it on a dedicated website, just posting them out when we get orders.

[Takaki03]

This is my dream! But unfortunately I'd have to reformat and probably even redo some episode to fit the printed form, especially I'm relying heavily on 3D renders to make the panels. It probably won't sell but I see it as an accomplishment and a reward to the readers who have been supporting me. I also consider writing prequels and spin-offs if time allows.

[allenT]

Yes! Not for real publication-- I want physical volumes for myself first, and then some small print runs maybe?

It requires few years down as I develop/discover better ways to make the possible print version as polished & pro-looking without changing/redrawing any panels (unless I drew some bad ones)

Things I probably will improve is the more polished & digital panel boxes replacing wobblly hand-drawn ones, changing some panel size/positioning, line weights for better effects & readability, tweak & unify the existing fonts style (and shrink size a bit), a better formulated shadings/tonings, and also maybe fix small drawing errors. Those improvements will only be for print versions. Plus, reasonable chunk of new side contents will be exclusive too.

[TheDoublekey]

My plan has always been to print my comic from the very start, but since making a volume takes time and since I needed an audience, I decided to post it while creating the chapters. I still haven't managed to print my first volume, sadly, due to some problems related to my first chapters (they cannot be printed and I'm remaking them from scratch).

Instead, though, I succesfully managed to print out the script/novel of my comic through KDP for myself and a friend of mine and that's a great accomplishment for me!

[aprilferrero]

Yes, my comic is actually more intended for graphic novel format than webcomic. I draw my comic on physical comic pages and when I finish volume one, will try and get them printed. Tapas is kind of nice because I can just upload my pages individually and do a few per episode. Tapas seams them together nicely so I don’t have to completely reformat them in a more conventional webcomic layout.

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