How many were your first subscribers?

[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.

[elixiadragmire]

for Silversong, by the end of the first month it was 581

[bjornar]

I seem to have lost a couple of subscribers now, so I might have to adjust my numbers for the first month, seeing as it's not over yet...
Does this happen, or should I freak out and start analyzing where I went wrong on my latest updates?

[keii4ii]

One time I lost over 90 subs overnight. I'd say don't worry about it XD

[TheRealBevinDacey]

I'm at about 27 right now but can't seem to get any attention on here.

http://tapastic.com/episode/274301

[dglisson]

I am hearing about a lot of folks living the dream here. I do my best to stay active on the forums, and I update religiously one page on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. So far I have one 22 page chapter up and two pages into the second chapter. I use thank you drawings for all subscribers and I am very friendly to everyone, engaging with all comments (in short, I basically follow all the guidelines I've read by successful comickers like you guys!).
I started in January and have 19 subscribers and am grateful for every single one of them, they all seem to love my comic Beast Bait. I have never been featured on the Daily Snack or been Staff Picked. I don't know how that happens, but it hasn't happened to me. I'm not complaining! I am just going to persevere and take the slow path, and hope that each of those 19 subscribers has the best reader experience. In the meantime, I do hope more discover my comic and want to read it. If anyone has any other suggestions for me so I can get to at least 50 that would be great, but that's just what I'm experiencing right now, which is by turns inspiring for me and sometimes depressing as well... but like I said, I love love love each of my 19 subscribers and hope they are having a great reading experience.

Beast Bait is my comic again if anyone wants to give me feedback.

[UrMom]

Well, if you're talking about totally starting off. The first webcomic I ever attempted was named 'We All Must be Daft' (I wanted to call it 'The Gods Must be Crazy', but I didn't want to take the title of the movie with the same name), in short it was going to be able previously mortal demigods rebelling against the a stagnant system that went on for whatever thousands of years, and create some surreal world or something. I dropped it because my mind was taken over by a sub-genre that was not present in the story, so I lost interest, which was probably for the best because I didn't have a clear idea of what I was doing with it.
But I remember before I deleted it I had about 10 subs or so, none of them ever tried to interact so I didn't have much of an attachment.

As for the first actually serious comic I made SJ, I honestly can't remember how many I had to start out with, but how I have about 350 or so; which is more than I ever imagined having on anything. For 'Void', when I started it on SJ I got probably 10 or more, now I have about 50. For here I just started out with 1, and now I have 27.
While subs are about as real as fast food, it's fun to analyze the numbers.

[demthorshie]

I started on Cosmos Song on December 8th of 2015 and by the end of December had around 40 subscribers. I feel like I gained subscribers a little quickly back then mainly because I had posted the first 10 pages during a 10 day span, so it was about 1 page a day. I gain at least 2-4 subscribers per new page currently