How Long Did It Take You To Gain A Significant Following...Or Not

@ryoko Wnqs
Thu, 20 Jun 2019 00:10:45 +0000

@ryoko wrote:

The comics that get subs right away with just covers/sketches, etc, are probably from artists that have been toiling away for years, working hard to gain a reader base. Then when they put something new out, all their hard work pays off and people sub to their new series. They probably use other types of social media to get the word out, too.

I started on Tapas in 2015 with no social media footprint. I think it took about a year for me to get 100 subs. I didn't advertise or anything, I just posted updates on a regular schedule. On Webtoons, I think it took a bit less time to reach 100 and currently I'm at 1800 subs on Webstoons compared to 596 here on Tapas. Growth on Webtoons tends to be faster because of the higher number of readers there, but it's not a hard and fast rule. Some people do better here on Tapas.

I'm still working on my first comic and am going to be doing a sort of prequel starting in 2020 with a couple of characters from my current comic, so it'll be interesting to see how many people move over to it in the future.