How would you publish this, any smart ideas?

[Yulek]

hiya!
Sooo I've been working on this way to long, but now my very short short comic is finished aaaaand... I don't really know what to do with it?

the whole thing is just 12 pages / 6 double pages.
each double is it's own color scheme.

I had to make it printable for reasons, which is why it works when you look at it page by page, but won't be so great when each double page is converted into one episode? ( I will rearange the panels to fit vertical scrolling)
esp since some double pages have 10+ panels... and some other have like 5. the last one even just has one.

Sooooo:

what can I do with it?

options I've been thinking about:
- still just turn one double page into an episode for tapas / WT
- make the PDF as pages avaiable on gumroad
- post on twitter? with link to gumroad?
- ???

[doublemelon]

Since its a short comic, I would just post one page into one episode, especially after the reformatting to a scroll format. And then I add an ad that says "THE COMPLETE VERSION IS AVAILABLE ON...."

Whatever you do outside Tapas can be whatever? Like.... yeah, whats stopping you from making a pdf and put it on gumroad as well? Unless you dont want to make it for free if you plan on selling the comic?

If you want to post to Tapas as well as to Gumroad, you may want to consider making extra/bonus contents that you wont publish for free.

[Yulek]

okay, it's great that you also see it this way

gumroad would be mainly just a tip jar tbh, so the selling point is that it's in it's uriginal page format without being compressed

[ninjashira]

Yeah I think putting a PDF on Gumroad is a great idea! I think you could print some physical copies if it wanted to and sell them at conventions for like $2 each. If you have a local comic shop or book store, you can see if they will carry things from local artists to sell on commission.

Or if you wanted to print something a little more substantial, you could make another short comic with a similar theme or the same characters, and you can give the first story away for free and say "if you want this plus a bonus story, buy my physical comic!"

[Yulek]

I think you could print some physical copies if it wanted to and sell them at conventions for like $2 each.

ohhh wait that's actually a neat idea! I will return to conventions after covid anyways.
the page count is pretty low, so print costs could also be managable to bear ahead of time

If you have a local comic shop or book store, you can see if they will carry things from local artists to sell on commission

and that's brilliant! we do have a place or two that might be open to that.
I will have one printed copy either way, so I can show it to ppl in charge as a mockup.

thank you, that's really neat ideas!

I won't really make extra content since it's very much completed, and I want to move on to other projects, and the story type won't lend itself to that very much anyways.
otherwise, it would be an option for sure

[sorible]

Having each (double) page as a different color scheme is actually really cool! I haven't seen anything like that before, but that could be because there aren't a lot of short story comics out there.

[Yulek]

yeaa I mainly just thought "why not use this to try some stuff out" and then it turned into something presentable :D.
esp wehn flipping through physical pages it's gonna be neat :3

but short comics just dont work tooo well for tapas and wt since like with this one, I will only get ... idk, 5 updates out of it? and in that time, you won't get that much views.

I think it will be fine enough since the readers of my other comic will be notified, maybe it even gets a spot on the "new" lineup on the frontpage. but other than that it's not the most effective lol

[ninjashira]

For posting on Tapas, if you're planning on doing other short-form comics in the future, you could make a series called like "Yulek's Short Stories" or whatever you want to name it, and put all of your short series there. Not on any kind of update schedule, but just as you finish them. That way you won't have to start from scratch with subscribers each time you make a new short comic.

[Yulek]

right!

it will be worth considering once I made a second one.. my library of works would become really cluttered and it might be good to have it easily sorted into long/full running series, and short works

changing the one series into an anthology would be easy enough with tapas' creator tools too

and I do plan on making more (this wasn't my first one either just the first that's worth publishing) since short stories are the perfect space to put in a lot of effort and also try new stuff, which you can't in running ones.

definitely gonna put it on my list

[Kaydreamer]

If it's already printable, I also think you should do a small print run and sell them at conventions! Those must be starting up again soon in most places, right? See how many you can get within a budget you can afford, and see how many you can shift.

Christmas markets will also be a thing in four months or so, and there are the occasional book markets and such in most cities. Both of those are good options for selling a physical comic.

You could have them uploaded on WEBTOON/Tapas at the same time - people tend to buy physical comics because they like that format, and they like holding the physical object, so you could double-dip by stacking the panels for a vertical web release, and selling the original format in a physical-only copy.