How long have you been working/ will work on your comic?

[UrMom]

Let's see, I've been working on my comic for 3 years, I've (almost) finished 3 chapters so far. I'm not quite sure how many more chapters I have left, but I'll guesstimate that it's be another 6 or more years till I'm finished... that is if I continue to hold up a fulltime job while working my comic.

Sometimes I think "wow, I'm going to be in my 30's by the time I finish a comic I started in my 20's. Would I even be able to make that kind of commitment?", but as long as I'm enjoying the process of working on it that's good enough. I know I'll feel pretty awesome when it's done.

[dawgofdawgness]

1 year so far, and I've recently finished my first chapter. But in total, I've completed 100 or so pages ^_^

[joannekwan]

3 years for my two oldest stories.

As time goes on I'm starting to realize I enjoy doing these 'shorter' comics more. My long epics that are still on the back burner I'm afraid I'll never turn into comics/graphic novels. I'm thinking my best bet is to novelize them, then they can at least be published in some fashion.

[Ayumi]

More than 11 year on two long comic. Dreamcatchers will be 27 chapter long and I'm currently drawing chapter 21. I wanna finish it in 3 years, but I am slower and slower... so maybe it will be 6 year XD. (Hell no!) Furusato House will be 32 chapter long, and I'm working on chapter 16.

[Shanny8]

I started building/creating my webcomic in September of 2015, scripted the 1st chapter in January 2016, started production in March 2016, and finally launched it in May of 2016. Currently working on chapter 3, so I've been at it for about three years now; not sure how many chapters my comic will have but I do know it will be over 15.

[druidcitycomic]

I've actually been working on mine for 8 seven years, all things considered. I released two graphic novels in greyscale, and have now gone back over old work that is being released in full color here on Tapastic. There have been a couple of years where I barely touched it and other where I worked on it like crazy. I keep the illustration style pretty simple so it never gets to overwhelming for me.

[vworksart]

Actually been working on Powernote for a good 3 years. Just started sharing it online like a month ago. Big reason why it went for so long was because for a good while I wasn't able to settle on a good art style. Honestly, I'm still tweaking it. But If I had to guess how long I plan to work on it, it would be most likely 5+ more years from now.

Even if my viewership doesn't grow a lot, it's still a story that I want to tell and it's something that I want to see to the end. I'll do everything in my power to complete it.

[Chita]

Yeah, I’m getting better at drawing pages faster (at least I think so XP) so hopefully it won’t take that long to do the same amount of pages... Also I’ve tried to compress the story many times and I don’t think I can do that anymore, but I’ll check it anyway. Thanks for the advice!

[Chita]

That’s awesome!!! I’m still on 50 pages

[MadamBubble]

This is my long term project, but I'm not doing it alone.

Personal Bubble | Tapas

[ZombieOwl]

I've been working on it for about 2 years, but it's not a narrative, so, who knows how long it will last

I hope it goes for a while, though ^^

[fischhead]

The idea for my comic, Garden Variety, came to me 4-5 years ago. After fleshing out the story, then cutting it up into 3 independent series, I'm finally confident enough to start posting it. Just to clarify, I'm drawing the first series as I write the script for the second.

Garden Variety | Tapas

[storytimebiondi]

I plotted mine out in general arcs, having 6 arcs in total. I was hoping each arc would take me a year to produce, though that may be slightly inaccurate.

So far I've been writing mine for a year, and I have one chapter left to do for Arc 1. I recently passed 100 pages, though! So, I feel like 100 pages for 1 year is an accurate measurement. Which means likely 6-7 more years for me :s

[PaulDevers]

I'm currently working on a comic, should officially launch in about a month or two, and realistically speaking, it should be running for the conceivable next ten years!
crying

[feuersichel]

I started mine as a one page gag. It wasn't supposed to get more pages... this was 2 years ago and it turned into a longterm project with almost 100pages now... Well, back then I already knew it would at least take me 6 years to finish it.
The problem is, I have an 100% job and I can only work on the comic in my freetime. So it might take me longer. (Having the money for artsuplies but no time to use it basicly xD )

In case someone wants to check it out, here is the link https://tapas.io/episode/375358 The first chapters are looking bad though

[Rhonder]

The project I'm currently working on, from February-May I got from concept to like 8 or 9 finalized pages done. Then I pretty much took the summer off. It's like 60 pages total and i can do 1-2 pages per week, so hopefully I'll be finished by like next spring with any luck will be able to start uploading by October.

[yozhikisblue]

I also feel overwhelmed thinking about how long I've got planned ahead, especially with my current workflow being so all over the place- seeing all the longterm estimates in this thread is actually very encouraging <3

When I think about it, I can't think of a single favourite work of literature or awesome comic series that didn't span multiple years. I guess we've just got to keep at it and hope our passion for a project can carry us through, even on days when it seems like a losing battle...

[Memai]

Oh I've worked on Anfänge for years now. I first worked on it around 2009, started publishing it around 2010-2011? I had to stop around 2012 because I was moving countries and going to Grad school.

I worked on it again later at the start of 2017 and only started making pages for it this year. I anticipate working on it for much much longer, especially since now it sits in a much bigger universe with more potential to expand! The goal is to talk about the universe and the people that live in it eventually, so I'm in this for the long-haul X)

[LT1986]

Thank you for making the forum topic. I wrote the story to my web comic 20 years ago. I've been illustrating my web comic since 2013. I started uploading to Tapastic is 2016.

[BTS]

I think I started my comic in June this year for the heck of it, so I wasn't really expecting anything.
Plus I can't do long term plans, I just pretty much draw whatever.

I don't really do chapters unlike most people..I just write a short sentence and upload lol