How many were your first subscribers?

[Jabbage]

@Marvin - wow, that's living the dream right there!

I started a week ago here on Tapastic, and one of my comics has 20 subs, the other has 30.
I'm really intregued by the fact that my older black and white comic is "winning" so far! I think the thumbnail is grabbing more people because its got a mysterious monster in it, rather than an old lady (I guess old ladies are boring I'll have to try to work out how to fix that.)

Over on my main site at ComicFury my first comic started to build more of a following after it had ended than when it was currently updating, so when I started posting my new comic it gained a lot of subs very quickly just because people knew me/liked the other comic. I know a couple of people were really baffled that I had so many subs so quickly, I had to reassure people, nooo I've worked for a year to build that readership!

[2rinaran]

I actually do remember the day I posted my very first page of Mew Mew Parfait and I kept checking back to see how it was being received (I'm sure we all get excited?). In the first 24 hours, I got 18 subscribers and that was pretty impressive in my book. Now I'm 10 pages in with 56 subs. I expect it will be a long time to 100 and who knows if I'll ever see 1k. I would do special things for those milestones as well, but for now I'm settled with doing small contests time to time to go with the story instead of the sub count. ^^

[joannekwan]

Hm, I gotta go into my series performance stats because I really don't remember. : P
I'll just give what I have for the first month for each of them.
Demon House: 190
Heavy Horns: 330
Erie Waters: 200 and it was hanging around 500 for a while then I got to be one of the Daily Snacks and the sub count went to 1.4k about.
At Ease (hasn't really started yet): 250

[SpavVy]

I think my first subscribers were somewhere in the 30's or 40's in about a month or so.

[heterodont]

According to the subscribers chart in the dashboard, first month of uploading I apparently only had 5! Now I have 531 after...nearly a year of updating (11 months)

I don't quite pay attention to my subscriber number so it is kinda startling to see such a jump...even if it's spread out through a year.

[Pandastrophic]

For my comic Socializing101 I first started posting back June 27 1 month later I got around 700 subscribers.
Safe to say I almost got a hear attack I was so happy as I didn't have any expectations for my comic since I've had previous webcomic projects back in 2010-2011 which I barely had any success with at all. So I was kinda convinced that my current webcomic wouldn't do so well either but I wanted to work on it just for fun, people ended up liking it so that's good ;v;

[Mharz]

I started The Angel with Black Wings on March 2015. The subs actually got stuck on 27 until I started to get active on Forums and Twitter on October and it managed to gain 129 subs as of this day. (I feel pathetic.) I've been at this for almost a year and I only got this number. (Sorry if I'm unlikeable.)

[60Six]

Looking back at some dates, City of Blank looked like it had about 800 in its first month (Which I still can't believe). That first month was without a doubt my most successful and I think I owe it a lot to the fact I already had about 40 pages finished, so I was able to upload every day, sometimes a couple times a day. Apparently at one point I made it into the daily snack as well, which helped a ton. Things have obviously slowed down a tooon since that first month with me only updating twice a week now.
A lot like @Marvin said though, I really hope this doesn't come off as bragging! But like they said as well, I just also wanted to provide experience as someone who didn't have a Tumblr or DeviantArt army backing them. For me personally, the huge boost was just having a very big queue of pages to post at such a frequent rate that my comic was constantly visible on some page of Tapastic for about a month. And that is exactly what I advise to artists now if they're thinking of starting a comic: Finish your first chapter before you start posting it. Then go ahead and post it like crazy (once a day or even more if you have that many pages), make it so it's constantly seen and get an audience from your frequent posting that will stick around once things catch up and you figure out your normal pace.

[Marvin]

For me personally, the huge boost was just having a very big queue of pages to post at such a frequent rate that my comic was constantly visible on some page of Tapastic

Same here, I did that the first week, it helped a lot !

[blop]

Glorious indeed xD I wasn't expecting that.

I think your art style is the first thing people look at, so the more appealing it is the more sub you'll get.
It might be a bit sad but I think at first it's easier to get people to be interested in your comic with good art than a good story, because it's easier to judge right away. And even after that I think people tend to be less critic when a story is not perfect if the art is good enough.
You can get famous with crappy art or an art style that is not mainstream and a really good story but it will take more time I think.

[shaylafarley5]

Hmm, I wonder if I should start updating during the weekdays instead is saturday

[Jabbage]

Since I've been posting every day I thought I'd be able to tell you which day is "best" according to my stats, but they're all over the place. This week Tuesday was my best day, the week before that it was Sunday.
I think that there are pros and cons every every day. The best thing is to post consistantly and don't keep your readers waiting.

[jonufele]

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[Silerna]

Back on inkblazers where I started my comic I had 50+ subs total,but it shut down.
I got ~20 subs at the moment and started with 1-5 I think.

[bjornar]

I'm nearing a month now with my single panel comic No Socks Attached and I usually get 1 (sometimes 2) subscribers per daily update. I've been fairly active on the forum and also commenting on other people's comics that I like. When it comes to how many likes I get per episode I am more confused, because the ones that I personally think are the best get the least amount of likes with the same amount of views

[Kayke]

For my comic Creep I had 598 in the first month and for Snips I had 94.

Creep got featured by the staff when I first started posting and I had a large backlog so I was able to post often.

I definitely agree with what @Marvin said. I have a tumblr/twitter following, but my following on Tapastic doesn't really overlap with that. People tend to stay on the site where they found you.

[jonufele]

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[Aspie_Gamer]

I've had 11 people like my current chapter and 8 people subscribe to Life of an Aspie over the last several months as I infrequently update it because of real world obligations. Now I have 7 subs and almost 900 views. Wish I had a hell of a lot more subscribers though. I would love to talk at length about LoaA in the comments section. Just uploaded five new pages today. Hoping that will get me featured in the daily snack so my sub count will shoot through the roof.

[Marvin]

Dude, you first pages are so pixalated the text is completely uneligible. Before I was featured on the daily snack, the staff asked me to increase my font by 2 to make sure it's readable on a mobile so let me tell you : you'll never make it to the DS with this low resolution pages.
And not only about the daily snack but if you want more readers, re upload those pages and your banner (what's up with that, what kind of res and format did you work with ?) so that is looks more professional (you seem to have taken the hang of it at the end) because when we go back to the beginning, we just stop at "I can't even read the dialogues, there's no way I'm gonna squint to try to decypher them, I'm on my computer, I shouldn't have to ! Gonna find something else to read."
No trying to be mean, just giving advice

[Aspie_Gamer]

I've been meaning to go back and resize the earlier pages of LoaA now that I've gotten a hang of things here at Tapastic. I just haven't gotten around to doing it yet what with all the other stuff I've got going on in my life at the moment.