How long have you’ve been working on your comic for?

[Scarlet_Cryptid]

I suppose it depends on when you start counting. If we go by when the MCs were first created, Adi goes back to some writing I did with my then-friend-now-husband, back in 2012. Koreal, one of his old DnD characters, goes back even further.

We continued to write stories with these characters for most of a decade, off and on, but the idea to finally make their story into a comic didn't really occur to me until 2019. At that point, I had tried (and failed) to script several other ideas, and was at a loss and sort of desperate. And then I thought... 'why don't I just use this thing my husband and I have been writing for most of the time we've known each other??? It's not like we don't have enough material to pull from!'

So I started writing the script for chapter 1 in 2019, spent about nine or ten months doing that, and started drawing the prologue in October of 2020. I was afraid to post before I knew I had enough momentum behind me, so I built a buffer of 30 pages before I finally started posting in April 2021.

[Calculus_Homework]

I was really dumb and lacked the self confidence for a long time, so I never started mine till last year.
The story's conception was back in 2009 when I was a very young teen. I'm happy to say that the story's development over that time has made it much better and stronger as a story, and now I can just focus on drawing it.
So I guess technically 13 years? But truly, just 1!

[XiuLyn_12]

I've been working on my romance comic for 8 months now!
Honestly, I didn't expect it that I've been working nonstop for 8 months haha.

[RedLenai]

Well, some are not my comics buuuut

Drawing
For Scarlet Society -> Since November 13th, 2018 (Webtoon Canvas - Tapas Community)
For Love Quotes -> Since December 30th, 2021 (Webtoon Canvas - Tapas Community)
For Solomon's Time -> Since April 30th, 2020 to June 3th, 2020 (Ko-Fi Shop)
For Yandere City -> Since December 30th, 2021 (Series TBA)
For Giri -> Since April 17th, 2022 and still on the making (Webtoon "Call to Action")

[Aleksei]

Like, submitting it here, 1 year and 6 months.
Drawing it, maybe add 2 more months.
Thinking it, and scripting, etc. Let's add 3 more months.
And to be honest, I kind of rushed the project, because I wanted to draw something soon and easy as a first project. Maybe next one will be more thought.

[CommissarTarkin]

Writing the first draft of the script for a volume of 3 chapters around 25-30 pages each took me... not that long, actually. It was last September and I was on vacation, so I wrote really quickly in the evenings and got it done in about a week. That first draft, of course, changed quite a bit since then - but the first chapter in total took us around 6 months to do, give or take a week.

The idea for the setting struck me in the middle of the night sometime during December 2020 when I was recovering from COVID, and I've been trying to bring it to life ever since. The main characters for the comic started out as really distant background characters for a completely different plotline, but our artist drew them so appealing that they demanded a plot of their own.

[rumpenstiltzkin]

Like seriously working on it, for about 2½ years, but I did do the 10 first pages already in 2016, ad concept and ideas for the character in 2014ish but I got into some major irl issues and had no motivation to keep drawing until 2020 again and just kept going from those first pages, so theyre a bit old compared to after I started working on it again but they still do the job haha

But yeh, I didnt seriously commit to the comic itself until 2020
but the idea of it have been slowly progressed in my head since 2014

[Lady_T_Musings]

For MagicalMashup! Conceptually since 2008. The protags were created to fill a niche interest I wanted to see more of and I'd post illustrations of them with short blerbs about them on ye old DeviantArt.

I didn't get the kick in the butt to go full steam till around 2018 where a friend was just like "Lady. Just. Do. It." And I was like... "I think I WILL gal, no, I totally will." Then I took all the scattered notes, illustrations, cute moments, and Ideas and started to combine them into a long form story.

Better late than never haha

[gabriellabalagna]

For me, it was about 1 year of planning/writing/concept art + 6 months of drawing the pages so far.

Been turning out pages too slowly, but that's why I'm making a buffer and haven't released any pages yet.

[BarBarKetrab]

I've been working on the one I'm drawing at the moment for around six months. About 2-ish months of planning and then 4 months of drawing.
The idea came to me pretty spontaneously near the end of 2021 and since I didn't want to burn myself out starting a longer story that I probably wouldn't be able to finish, I decided to stick with it.

[Cryingtart]

First comic I made it is I guess, since 2014. Still working on it because the story plot isn't exactly right/it will be long series.

However, the comic I just released is Called Royal Advice; I've been working on that for a good year or 2. The reason it took so long, was I was doing university projects at the time; I told myself once I graduated, I'll release this comic weekly, no matter what.

[Awesomeness_Studios]

I'm not proud of this but JumpHero has kinda been baking for a while, probably as early as 2018. That's cuz I was a bright-eyed high schooler back then with a goal to make an animated series (don't worry I'm wiser and in college now)

On October 2020, someone convinced me to finally just make it as a webcomic. I was working on another series at the time, but as soon as that ended in January 2021, I went fully into preparing JumpHero for Tapas, which would release on May 14, 2021.

It's been over a year at this point and it's still going strong

[Phantomobservant]

I've been working on Raining down Monday since June 2021
But I've been working on the whole series Inferior since 2017

[brianandchapin]

My comic has existed in my head since around 2007.
I didn't start actually drawing it until around 2018, but I never posted that version of the comic.
It wasn't until 2020, when I suddenly gained a lot of free time, that I actually started working on it seriously.

[BlairFujin]

BDSM Boys - nearly 4 years
Vampire Prince - almost 3 years (which is actually longer than the time I was working on the original, black and white, traditional version I was posting on deviantart as a middle schooler)
Horny Hell - a little bit over 2 years

[LostKelp]

Hard to say honestly, with see the stars the character who started it all was made in 2018 but the actual main characters were only made mid last year in 2021 and half of the main cast was made about 4 months ago. Overall most of the story and cast was made three months ago with the exception of Najm, Alya, Jaya and Thana who were all main characters in the original version which was in development on and off for four years but is largely irrelevant to the comic I'm making now.

[powerplantanimations]

Since November or December. I think January. Still having a ball expanding the plot babee!

Read That Stick Figure Isekai | Tapas Web Comics

[river121693]

the first general concept I had was around 2018, but it went through multiple iteration, genre, and plot. I wrote the current story (150 pg outline) over the pandemic and finished it in 2020. First version of the post was late 2020, but I wasn't happy with the art so I scrapped it. The current version was published in 2021

[Nada]

Since the beginning of last year, but I put it off and put it off until between October and November of last year I began to structure it. I have two stories in mind once I finish my current comic, one I wrote in 2017 but I need to improve the ending as it seems forced and one I've been working on for 2 years.

Why didn't I start publishing them before my current comic? I guess it's also because of my lack of trust in them, but my goal is to improve the plot of both.

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