How much time did it take you to reach lots of subscribers?

[PocketFloral]

My current stats on my Horror/slice of life comic Glamour (not counting the 150 followers on the Glam tumblr account) To be honest I'm extremely happy with my number considering the comic isn't even 3 months old yet. The ppl who do sub are also pretty active and vocal, another thing I'm extremely grateful for. I've gotten a staff pick though, so that greatly helped boost up the number.
Something I heard repeatedly in the forums when starting out was that it'll usually take about a year of consistent posting to build up a following and that's definitely put how i feel about my stats in perspective. There has to be existing content for people to make an active choice in whether or not they wanna sub.
One thing I noticed though was once the comic started veering into its horror side i did lose subs. I think mostly because the beginning was so cute and nice people who weren't attracted to horror were still subbing but realized later on "hm this might not be my thing" which is understandable.

[heterodont]

Sharing stats? sharing stats.
I joined tapastic around March, so I've been on this website for roughly 7 months? Granted, I've been working on my comic Kongene Faller since 2012, it's listed as action bc I've never really been able to pin a genre onto it. Prior to uploading to Tapastic, the readership was limited to my group of friends and maybe like 3 strangers. I always feel like the art in the first two chapters is what usually turns people off from reading it. 1k+ views on the first few pages that slowly drop as you go down, then again there are 200+ pages!

Either way, just like everyone else says - it's usually not a good idea to focus on how much views your comic is getting bc soon that behavior can lead to feeling unappreciated, putting too much effort into nothing, yada yada negative feelings. Not to mention if you force ways to get more views, you WILL get an audience but it won't be the audience you want - not to mention you'll just make yourself miserable. Just make your comic for yourself and sooner or later it will get attention!

[allenthomas]

I still haven't reach 100 subscribers, but I have also only been on tapastic for about 9 months. I still don't entirely understand how this subscribers thing works as there are a ton of different comics that are of very high quality (much higher than mine) and not even have 50 subscribers meanwhile others get to 100 within weeks. I honestly think there are three ways that people hit 100+ subscribers,

1. Having a previous following before uploading here thus hitting 100 rather quickly, if they follow you.

2. Having a quality of work amazing enough to grab people's attention on its own without promoting. Even good enough for other to promote for you. (I do this myself for really looking comics)

3. A slow and steady approach, which may be difficult at times and the longest of the three, but will get subscribers due to consistent and reliable posting over time provided the artist doesn't give up. (which could also be said for the previous two)

It should be worth noting that some comics apply to all three numbers above.

[jacintawibowo]

Hello there!
We're JesnCin, and we make Tales from the Well, an all ages dark and creepy fairytale. Often compared to Over the Garden Wall.

We started our comic in June. On that very month alone with only page 3 posted, we reached over 500 subscribers (we were lucky enough to have been featured on Staff Picks!) By August we managed to get 700 subscribers. By early September Tales from the Well was featured on the Tapastic phone app as the Daily Snack, and sky-rocketed to 3.1K subscribers.

On the surface, it looks a lot like an overnight success. However, we believe a lot of Tales from the Well's success came from supporting other webcomic artists long before we started and having a very strong network of artists friends to share your work with! We were completely touched when webcomic artists we looked up to supported our webcomic upon its release, advertising it on their sites and recommending us through Twitter and tumblr. Our friends were even nice enough to draw fanart of my characters, and we were less than 10 pages in. My amazing comic professor recommended us to all her connections, getting some very important art people looking at our comic since day one :B All that helped a lot with getting Tales out there, and we're certainly working hard to keep that going!

[ikushina]

I think it was within a month my BL comic got 200 fans xD people are so thirsty lol.

^le stats
and yes, I putted the BL label to tease the people who hate it. As if the title or the image wasn't enough.. d:

"Manyak comics"... well, got it over time. I remember being so overwhelmed when it got 40+ fans :'D

But keep drawing people! Just DO IT!!

[Dorian_Grey]

@joannekwan I struggled with this exact problem, and I guess I could to get more subscribers with a tag like that?? ...But then I realized my story is more about the struggles faced by that characters and much more beyond that tag.
But I agree, a lot of those tropes bother me a ton and it's unfortunate.

I got about 200+ subscribers in about two months in Unravel. Which is a promising start! (I hope haha!)

That's setting yourself up for failure because good comics are a lot of hard work, and you will not be able to keep your work ethic up if you don't love what you're making. That said, a complete lack of outside encouragement will also kill your work ethic. You gotta find a balance between making what you love and making something that's good.

I completely agree with this. I was just hoping my story would catch interest with no gimmicks and just hard work and a good story (or as best as I can tell it.) I have no following elsewhere.
So with that in mind, I'm hoping that my hard work will slowly but surely pay off. As much as I would like a ton more subscribers (I tend to jump ahead of myself and expect more from myself sometimes,) I'm trying to be very patient.
Patience is key.

[joymontserrat]

I started off really slow. I would get about 5 subs after every new episode I uploaded, and then it just sort of stayed at 46 for about a week. Then I woke up to like 133 and by the end of the day I got about 300+ subs in about a day (I have no idea how).
The whole day was about 10-15 subs a minute.

Lilies For Death | Tapas

Here is my comic, it is romance/fantasy.