7 main characters times on average like 3 for their relatives, Ive got about 21 characters in my comic

I have 2 main characters, 2 character designs that I always use for background characters, and about 10-20 characters that have been used once.

i've never tried counting them for actual stories. mostly cuz i don't know yet what characters i'll need;; there's also lots of "filler characters", meaning they're there to make friend circles or important groups look populated. and i usually do have names, designs and simple personalities for them (somewhat unavoidable to think about the character as you draw them in your world, huh). for my current comic, as far as major characters go... my current count is at... 12. there's definitely way more tho, like i said;;

several main characters is deff hard to juggle. Oda of One Piece juggles 9 of them and has taken to splitting the main cast apart to make room for arc-relevant characters. but it can be done! i do think you gotta prioritize and have some idea of why that character exists, i think. like in One Piece, you can get a sense for which strawhats are more prominent and in what situations - they each have a role that comes from their job in the crew, allowing them all a chance to be useful to the events.

For the moment only 3 characters

I don't even want to count because I always end up making more characters as I need them, haha.

That said, most of them are side characters, characters who only show up when they're needed. I think having too many characters is only an issue when they're all main characters, because after a while it gets hard to keep track of them all.

For my ongoing comic I have two main character and one almost main character. But they all have a lot of family and friends and pets and classmates and team-mates and teachers and what not. I don't even want to count!

Thats cool, a lot of characters in a comic it's really good

I have 43 episodes so far and I have 26 characters introduced now though some are just minor characters or one time appearances but I plan to have at least 100 characters introduced in my comic
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no way I feel like counting them but I'm guessing about 50?
10 of only the most main ones and then the list goes on forever

Currently (in my current series), about 20. Though that might increase. I have a bad habit of creating new characters. Also, keep in mind that many of my characters are related.

My old series had about 10 characters. It was also much shorter.

In my comic I have 9 characters. In my loar I have10.
In my opinion its not how many characters you have or don't have; Its if the story needs them and the purpose they serve to drive the story forward

oh gosh I have so many >.<

About 5 main characters and about 14 total, not including the really minor characters

Most of my characters are all in the same place throughout the story and are seen together so the reader doesn't have to keep track of all of their separate lives.

I think as long as each character is clearly distinguishable both through design and personality you're good!

3 main characters, an antagonist, and at least 15 supporting that come into play at different points in the story. I didn't want the 2 human main characters to feel like they're completely isolated, so I took care to make a good background cast, even if they don't show up a lot.

there are 7-8 characters in my comic who have been named and make a physical appearance (one of them has only been in a painting), but there are at least 15 more characters who have yet to even be mentioned yet. Obviously they aren't all main characters, but...there's a lot +_+ There are only 2 main characters, though, so I guess that's pretty average?

Major characters that play a significant role in the plot: about 9-10
Maybe 5ish characters who are involved with those characters but very secondary.
And around 15?? background folks with speaking parts have shown up so far (3-5 each chapter, so, many more to come), but I don't usually count them. Even though they do get designs and personalities, they don't get names.

Like WAYYYY too many. There are a lot of one time/one shot characters, so maybe 25-35 ish main ones??
Gosh, that's so many still

I have seven characters in my comic.

For (Semi) Super I have 3 main characters that are set to the story and a bunch of regulars to be introduce that aren't technically main characters.

eight main characters but not yet shown so just two main characters and later would be three characters and bunch of recurring characters

Outer Spaces1 is a bit of an anomaly for me. Typically I have a trifecta of main characters - (looking back now, I realize it tends to be one gruff and weathered character, one intellectual, and a spirited youngster) - but in a novel I'm concocting, there are something like 20-30 characters whose actions are relevant to the plot, and in Outer Spaces, there's only two central characters. There's about 10 Inks that I've given much story-time to, and they're the driving force in the plot - but there's also a host of monsters, anxieties, and other creatures that don't stay quite so long. Honestly, a story with generally few characters is a first for me.

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Grassblades currently has 12 characters that have or will turn up in more than one chapter, as well as a handful of single-chapter secondary characters. I'll be adding another character to the reoccurring cast, to make it 13.

I tend to try to stick with fewer characters, as that lets me be more focused and in-depth, and it's easier for both me and the readers to keep track of who is who and what they want.

For oneshots, I try to limit the scope even more, usually sticking with 2-4 characters.

There was a War currently only really has 2 characters, with about seven introduced side characters. that main character list should eventually evolve to four or five, with some other big players as well, but right now its dead tiny, which can get difficult sometimes in things feeling thin and i do maybe too many flashback scenes.

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Right now I have only two, but the number WILL increase.

Re:Set have five main ones and seven demons that people should remember.

But in total maybe 30.

it doesn't so much matter how many you have as long as each of them are developed accordingly! the only problem with having too many characters is when all of them start to compete with each other for 'screentime' and the creator is unable to compensate with adequate plot to keep them happy. for parlor tricks, candel and i have about 15 major characters planned so far, but they came into existence according to their purpose in the story so we know theyre all going to get some time to shine.

so yeah! don't worry about quantity, just get it rolling and have fun!!

Right now, I have three main characters, five important secondary characters and a handfull of minor supporting ones.

I try not to get sidetracked too much and focus on the three main, but I do plan to have secondary characters share the spotlight at some point. Don't you sometimes find it's hard though to not get carried away with too many characters? XD

Not a lot. Numb1 has 3 main characters and 5 other ones, not all of them revealed properly yet. So it's a 8 member cast.

Just one - it's LIFE ;p

Oh man, I get a little carried away with characters sometimes, but Paisley Brickstone2 has 9 current "main" characters, but by the end will have had about 40. I wanted it a large class sizeworth cuz the school is based on the highschool I went to and we had pretty massive class sizes. I'm trying to spoonfeed things to the audience, though, so hopefully it'll be easy enough to keep track of. (I do purposely limit how many characters are hanging around at any given time, though, and a lot of time was put into trying to make sure each character looks different and recognizable.)

Perilous Journey only has 2 currently, and there will only be about 3 or 4 reoccurring side characters. It's also intentionally a much smaller story and even from the beginning I never planned it updating much longer than a year or two. (I'm currently sitting down and forcing myself to write the script in it's entirety just to force myself to keep it small as I can go off the rails if I'm not careful.)

I just launched 18 Saints are 18 Sinners1 yesterday and currently the plan is to keep everything centered around the 1 main character with about 50 currently planned reoccurring characters (this number may shrink as about 10 of them are super tentative and I'm trying to decide if their inclusion would mess up my plot structure). I don't normally write stories, especially long stories, about just 1 character, but I'm kinda going for one of those stories that's about someone who'd normally be a side character as he's not super involved in the main events going on in the background.

Now that I look over this again, these numbers aren't TOO bad as far as active characters go that are important for readers to remember. Some of my old stories I tried creating got a little ridiculous, so I think I'm learning B)

Goblins of Razard has 3 main characters. Hawk, Reign and Nodin, who travel together. We mostly see the story from their perspective, and they are the focus of the story. There are 2 main villains who are King Laird and the evil wizard Zilck, with several sub villains who support the main villains, like the Goblin Queen and the mutant rats. There are also supporting cast members- members of the wizard order, Hawk's wizard teacher, Zilck's sister, goblin friends and such. As long as all the minor character's storylines support and move forward the main storyline, I think its a good thing.

I do think that for slice of life comics, gag comics and such (Like 'Chicks' or 'Suddenly Burbs') having too many characters overwhelms people. It's better to have a small very recognizable cast.

I have two main characters and a cat that is like the mascot of the series.

Then I have three supporting characters and then a few others that come way later.

My comic is a longer one. I've never really thought about how many characters there will be exactly because there are still some characters that are yet to be created I'm sure, even if the main story is completely finished there will be some side characters that I haven't thought of yet.

But in terms of main characters, there are 6. For sub-main there are around 8. All the characters though, even the main slowly are introduced through time so currently there are only 2 main and 1 sub haha but my comic is still only in the first chapter on tapastic

Too many to count haha. Around 10 have appeared so far, but there's so many more to come lol

2 main characters, for now the story would be about them

Haha haaaa....I lost count.

I just started and i have 3, but almost 50 more, waiting to enter the story. At this point i am considering to add more in the future. Anyway i think it depends on the type of story you are making.