How old is your comic?

[Mharz]

If it's based on when I started it, My comic is already 2 1/2 years old. But if it's based on the first time I posted it, it's 1 1/2 years old. I'm in this for a pretty long run because my plan was 8-10 volumes. I already finished 2 within this time span and my average is 1 year per volume. (I wish I could be faster.)

[Kura]

How old is your comic?
For the ones currently running, publishing wise (not production, work began long before I started uploading pages) Raven Wolf is 5 years old now, while No Future is 2 years old.

Have you ever started and then abandoned a comic before moving on to a new one?
Unfortunately, yes. It makes me unhappy, but I'll start projects that will just not click well enough for me to be invested in them for the long run (the reasons are varied and different for each series) Causing me to either set aside the series on hiatus until I can find a way for the series to work for me so I can keep it to a schedule. Or abandoning it all together if I feel it's just not going to work for me. It's something that I don't like to do, but if a series is not working for me, then it's not working. I'm not going to force myself to finish the project especially if's it's more of a self imposed goal and not one that will help me financially. I'll go back to it when it will work for me (if I can get it to do so)

How long did you expect this project to last when you started it. How long do you expect it to last now?
I started the projects knowing that they were going to be long and be something I would be working on for years and years. Raven Wolf I did however underestimate how long it would take. Originally I thought it would take me about year maybe 2 years translate each book in the series into a comic version. So I thought it would be maybe 7-9 years. It's been 5 years and I'm still on the first book in the series, and I often wonder if I'll just be able to only make the first book in the series into a comic and not be able to do the rest, as my health has taken a significant drop from what it was when I first started the series. When starting No Future I had a better idea of time time and work involved, so it' estimated lifespan is much more accurate.

Do you have an ending planned?
I don't start drawing a series unless I have an ending planned. Comics are a lot of work, I just can't afford invest so much work into a series without knowing where it's going to go or how it will end. I even have 'rushed' endings that I can use in the event that I have to cancel the project due to my health. They're not ideal and I do not want to use them, but at least they're an ending if I have no choice but to stop working because of my health.

[atlas]

My comic Dragon Chapel is about three months old, while Po's Adventure is almost two and a half months old.

[UzukiCheverie]

I began coming up with Time Gate (though it didn't go by that title back then, Time Gate was actually the name of a prequel I came up with to the main series, which was titled Fall of the Fairies) when I was still in middle school/junior high (so between grade 6 and 7). Back then it actually started as a fanfiction for Legend of Zelda, but as I began putting more time into it, I realized that if I wanted to actually write it as a novel (or make it a comic) and get anywhere with it, I'd have to make it original.

So in high school I worked on making it an original story, but thought nothing of turning it into a comic until I came to Tapastic (it was a novel up until that point, which I actually did post in some places). Though I had tried drawing it as a manga before for my own personal satisfaction, in the middle of high school I was working on Uzuki, so Time Gate sorta got put on the backburner and stayed in my brain. Once I got to Tapastic though, after I had been doing Uzuki for a while here, I decided to pull the trigger and start drawing Time Gate as a manga, starting with Time Gate: Reaper. It was a bit of an on-the-spot decision, so I'm pretty happy with myself with how I've stuck with it for nearly 2 years (as a comic production - in its entirety, Time Gate itself has been a work in progress for like, 10 years lol)

[nessiefynn]

I've been working on my current comic, Household Slime Mold, for about four months so so. It really doesn't feel that long @_@. I imagine it will last maybe 3 years? I already have the broad strokes of the comic planned out, all the way to the end, I just need to write out all the details.
I've abandoned comics before, before Slime Mold I got about 10 pages into Snaggletooth, which I dropped because I didn't plan it well and wasn't as dedicated back then.

[Mikayi]

I have a comic Nemution Pobea which was something I started way back in 2001, so it's really old! but I stopped it when I had a lot of things going on around 2004 or so and officially took a Hiatus in 2010, started to officially redraw it in 2014 or so to where it is now, but never rushing to get pages done, till this year where I am doing weekly updates. so that comic is pretty old.
inner heart went through somewhat of the same process but it wasn't an official idea till about 2010 sadly it went through the same Hiatus and redraw issues.
Indomitable spirit is the newest one, and it started somewhere in 2014 with me not officially weekly updating till this year. I changed my style a little because it was more school based then fantasy and I wanted the characters to look a certain way. sadly the style not changed much from my others. LOL

I did have one comic that I wrote completely in Mandarin Chinese. the story is only 10 chapters long so about two volumes. I did draw part of it but never finished drawing it.
all of the comics I have do have official endings. but that doesn't mean I don't change how exactly I want to do the ending, or how I want to do the story till the end. some of the comics are very long Inner heart actually only has 5 volumes. and is nearing the end of volume 2.

[Shanny8]

My webcomic, Ray Thunder is only 3 months old(by the end of this month will be 4 months). I do have an end for my comic though I'm still in the phase of string possible plot ideas together. I have never started a webcomic and abandoned it, & hopefully my interest in Ray Thunder keeps long enough to see it through to the end.

[indagold]

My comic Welcome Back is at least 5 or 6 years old when I finished it. Started planning the story 7 years ago. I'm slowly uploading it again to test this platform and to get an actual audience that I can talk to since the last comic site I was on you cannot expect to have a conversation with anyone. It was very unuser friendly.

For the first part of the comic I had a clear ending set out. I actually had an ending for the later part but wrestled with what it would be for god knows how long. I'm now fixing up minor parts of dialogue because of the ending decision, very minor. The ending I finally choose was basically the same I had planned just varied.

I plan to have it finished uploading within a year and a half? Maybe? I already have a comic I might start at the end of this year along with this one.

[tzuba12]

I've only been working on Glitch for 8 months now I think. I'm still on the first chapter and have a long way to go. I have a few things planned for it and I'm still not quite sure how long it'll last, but I'm enjoying creating it and don't think I want to stop any time soon.

[TACOBERTO]

On the 25th of this month will be the one year anniversary I've been working on my comic.
Though I had been doing planning and concept art for over 5 years

[aspiderjonny]

How old is your comic?
I have two (technically three) comics running.
The J-Man passed 2 years online on August 26th (BTW guest art is still open)
The Valve is around 1 1/2 years old, starting on March 16th, 2015.
Tales from the Other Side, where I post other comics I make, is a year old.

Have you ever started and then abandoned a comic before moving on to a new one?
Not yet, but I almost did. For the first TftOS I started redrawing J-Man 1933, a comic I made for Sophomore year at SVA. It wasn't more then a year old when I originally drew it, but I made it with traditional inking (which I'm not good at) and questionable anatomy. So I redrew it digitally, which I thought wouldn't take long.
But then Junior year started and my Thesis basically took over my entire schedule. Trying to do four comics at once was too much and my upload schedule took a big dive. I was at the point where I thought about abandoning J-Mam 1933 halfway through. Eventually I did finish it a year later. My thesis, Cinderella, now uploads on TftOS, and since that's already finished, I don't need to worry about it messing with my other projects.

How long did you expect this project to last when you started it. How long do you expect it to last now?
Not really sure. As long as I can make them, I guess. J-Man and Valve are ongoing and I have plans for at least 12 chapters and more. Tales from the Other Side is an anthology with each chapter a different story. I don't really have a plan for that one so I don't know how long it'll last.

Do you have an ending planned?
I have ideas for endings for both J-Man and Valve, but they won't come for a long time. I'm more familiar with western comics that go on then graphic novels that have a planned ending, so I've been making my comics like that. My comics don't have a planned ending as of late, but If I do get to do this for years, maybe I'll end it properly.

Thanks for the questions! I've never thought too much about length or endings, so this was a fun exercise.

[SirGutsalot]

My comic Lacrim is 6 days old, a wee baby comic so far, but i also have another one called Galaxy Guts which has been going for a few months. I hope both of them simply go on for as long as possible because they're so fun to draw!!

[AnnaLandin]

How old is your comic?

In years of posting finished pages, Grassblades is about 1.5 years old by now. If we count age from the time I started planning, it's about 7 years old. I'm estimating it'll be another 4-5 years before I'm finished with it, at least - and that's assuming the rest of my schedule doesn't change.

Have you ever started and then abandoned a comic before moving on to a new one?

Yes I have. I abandoned the first webcomic I made, because it was poorly planned, going nowhere, I'd lost interest in the story, and because I'd just gotten into college and was absolutely slammed with schoolwork.

How long did you expect this project to last when you started it. How long do you expect it to last now

I expected it to last 4-5 years, now I'm looking at maybe 6 total? It might be longer - it all depends on how busy I get with other things, how well my planning goes, and whether I get to be healthy throughout the run of the project.

Also, this thing has a tendency to grow in the telling, so, uh. >.< I'm fighting to keep it below 1000 pages total.

Do you have an ending planned?

Yes I do. I have a general outline from beginning to end, and then I tweak stuff as I go - adding, removing and shuffling stuff around - but I know where I'm headed. There are a few details of the ending that I haven't quite nailed down yet, but the basics of it are already planned out.

[Ringarune]

It's been about one year of making my comic Star Pace even made some anniversary art a couple weeks ago ^^
This is my 1st comic so I've never abandoned anything yet. I hope I don't abandon this one since I've worked pretty hard on creating a cohesive plot, even though it's going to take years to finish :') I knew going into this that it would be years of hard work, like seriously over 10 years, but I believe in my story and haven't lost any drive for it in the past year so I hope I continue on that way. And yup, my ending is planned. For my story the ending is pivotal for me to keep focus and helps me have a set goal as to how my characters need to change by the end of the series.

[Potoh]

I came up with the first elements of Amaranth around 13 or 14 years ago and developped the story over all those years. A lot of things have changed, but the core always stayed the same.
I had another comic which I kinda threw the idea away for, and I also had 2 other versions of Amaranth which I abandoned because they didn't work out.
As of how long Amaranth will continue... I have no idea, but it's probably going to take me more then 10 years to finish it as a whole. It has several parts, and every part is different in length. The first part, Sky, is probably the shortest, so spoken about that... maybe a year? But it can also take longer, since I keep adding stuff in the middle...
I don't have an ending. Well, not for the whole Story. I have a rough ending for Sky, though. I know where the characters will stand, who dies, thinks like that. Even the transition from part 1 to part 2.

[timinabox24]

if my comics count then about 10 or 12 years, depends on how you look at it

[punkarsenic]

My comic's about two months old, and yeah I've abandoned a comic before due to depression and lack of planning (not gonna happen this time) I didn't really plan out specifically how long it'd take, but now I'd say two years'd be a reasonable length of time - hiatus time notwithstanding. I've got an ending planned, of course, I just need to figure out how to get there (there's lots planned, but gaps here and there to navigate)

[Herofeeder]

my comic is also 2 months , we must be brothers

[evegwood]

I started writing the very first version of Inhibit seven years ago, but the current version is only 1 3/4 years old, and about 90 pages long so far! I was originally going to do another comic before I started this one so I could practise making a comic but I'm too fond of this story. I'm planning to be working on it for several more years at least!

[mkrenez]

My webcomic actually started as a gag-a-day strip series by the same name about three years ago. Here's a link to deviantart that has some of them. I made about 30 strips I think, then tried to flesh out the story more. Tomervision had a lot of incarnatons before I decided on a "Teenage Mutant Ninja" story. So, Tomervision is three years old!

I don't have all the original strips saved or backed up anymore, but they may be floating around on the internet somewhere.