Is there a niche for your comic?

[kitschensyngk]

I'm not sure how niche my main comic is. Coming-of-age stories aren't exactly uncommon...which was part of the reason I started it in the first place.

[faisalhussein394]

My comic is not for specific people. I make the comic for my own goal, the story I want to make and want everyone to view, read, read their comments, and reviews about it.

It felt great when the comic I always want to make is viewed by many individuals and would like to hear their thoughts about it.

[smokesalty]

I'd say my comic is niche, but not too niche. It's not for everyone but I feel like it's not super hard to get into (maybe I'm just saying that cos I wrote it )

It's mainly for people who are mainly into psychological horror- there's no jumpscares and no "serial killer with knife chasing you 24/7," but mainly a whole lot of mixed feelings on characters and events in the story. It's a lot to do with family relationship dynamics and issues, and asking the question "why stay in what seems to be a clearly abusive relationship to everyone else?"

I also enjoy that my villain is not this grotesque, creepy monster but a character the audience will get to know very well. He's definitely the most interesting character there, which is definitely something I market to potential readers.

[rumpenstiltzkin]

I make my comic for myself, and if others enjoy it too its a bonus

So I feel it hard to say what audience it would be aimed for other than myself, I guess its pretty open as its no explicit gore or violence, just wanted to make my own little fantasy adventure with a little bit of slowburn romance somewhere a long the way

[Freemints30]

Honestly, my niche for my webnovel is very dark romance. Which is a niche genre in itself but more to scratch that personal itch I rarely see. Having a messed up, aggressive, out right dangerous monster who is at the same time just a sad, timid out right socially stunted person. Plus having a chance to really get into thier head and see why they do or did what they did.

Alot of traits I give my characters from intrusive thoughts to severe anxiety are things I deal with. I guess the story has a more personal place in that aspect.

I also knows I tend to deal with very dark subject matter which I know can be turn off for people looking for a cute fluffy romance. Especially when the relationship as fluffy as it seemed to start off as, does not really brush off or downplay some very unsavory traits of my characted. The whole point is monster falling in love with a broken person and said broken person as conflicted as they are return those feelings.

Finally the spicy scenes later contain ... things I know will be niche, from mild blood """admiration""" to romantic canablism to just straight up inhuman anatomy

So a slow burn hurt comfort fic but the comfort becomes intentionally messed up the more you actually thing about it

[darthmongoose]

I largely think of Errant as sharing a niche with other action-adventure series with a focus on female LGBTQ+ characters. On Tapas, examples include: Hard Lacquer, Pandora's Devils, Alien Heart and The Flying Ship.

Errant is a little more "boyish" in identity with a bit more of a shounen manga aesthetic and focus on the action side and politics to go alongside the emotional stuff, and so even though I suspect most readers overall are female and nonbinary, a lot of the most dedicated readers who leave the most comments are male, which is a fun surprise! So I think it also hits that sort of audience who like things like Madoka with some feminine aesthetics and lightly queer themes but also a meaty plot and world-building going on underneath it. I'd love for it to be like Fullmetal Alchemist; a shounen manga created by a woman that has really broad appeal; that's kind of my dream.

[CommissarTarkin]

Well, "vampire space opera" sounds kind of like a niche, I guess, but at least it doesn't have a lot of competition in it.
I'm honestly not sure. There's not much explicit stuff, like gore, violence or nudity, but it does have vampires, so it will have blood, it is about a military, so it will have violence, and it does have people, so someone is bound to be at least partially naked at some point.
I do sometimes fear that, at present, there's not enough action for people who like action, not enough drama for people who like drama, not enough exciting sci-fi concepts for people who like sci-fi, and not enough vampire stuff for people who specifically like vampires, therefore our comic fails to hit any audience. Time will tell.

[IndigoShirtProd]

I think there is. With my main comic, The Black Belt Society, it was one I made with myself in mind. It's the kind of action-adventure story I watched as kid and love for it's charm and simplicity.

I don't know how niche more kid friendly, "boy-oriented", action stories are that focus more on a friend group rather than romantic relationships. I tried to make it with broad appeal, but realistically, I guess only a certain type of person would feel nostalgic for they type of story BBS is.

[Zay]

Yeah, my series is catered to people who are into the occult.

[DasIstWunderblyat]

I honestly don't really think about my target audience, which might play a part in difficulty on gaining an audience. It's too niche to be mainstream but too mainstream to be niche.

I have a planned comic that might be an alternate retelling of a folk tale with the main character being the folk tale protagonist's sister. But I want to kind of make it for international audience, and hopefully just for them to know a bit about folktales other than overused, disney-fied, ones

[Lady_T_Musings]

Niche a-f, though I freaking beam for every new comic that comes along with a plus-size nonjoke character that's a part of the main cast. If they are a protag, My word, I become the sun.

[wispysing]

I think it's about...60-70% niche? There are lots of action and mystery bits, but it's leaning more towards solarpunk and biopunk in terms of themes and aesthetics. So a little Frankenstein-y there too.

I work on my comic to de-stress, so it's already a joy just working on it by itself. But it does make me even happier when someone (especially my Tapastic friends/community) enjoys it.

[powerplantanimations]

I aim to please everyone. I be a people pleaser. What I love with That Stick Figure Isekai is that everyone can relate with a stick figure; however, I know that there's people with specific tastes and the isekai genre allows me insert characters from different genres to get their attention.

One of the themes in the comic is about communication and getting to know one another. There's sort of a meta aspect that encourages readers with different tastes to get to know one another.

WHICH IS CUTE because my most relatable characters are just the regular stick figures so that gives me hope that yeah... my fans are more into stick figure shenanigans.

In a way this is a good thing since I play around with the whole kenosis concept and how the isekaiers are basically gods. It's a little difficult to be attached to them since if you remove everything that made them special and leave them with their core personality, most of them will act like complete aliens.

Also DUE to the fact that everything's comprised of stick figures, it makes advertisement easy. So that's a plus :v

I will say, I do try to shoot for the male demographic. Really curious if there's more boys or more girls reading ma' comic.

[KennethLopezJr921]

I'd like my comic to appeal to the age group of 10 to 15, or people are fans of Shonen and action. I have a feeling that a lot of furries may find my series appeal cause of the animal characters (not that there's anything wrong with that), but I don't want it to be something that appeals to only furries.

[konori]

My different comics will have different niches because I want to explore different themes.

Though I think my more light-hearted comics will appeal to a wider (and maybe younger) audience than my darker-themed ones.

[Chocolate]

Yes, my comic has a niche. It cater to Shonen Jump fans. I love Naruto, One Piece, and Yugioh growing up. I hope to attract those type of fans for my comic as well.

[JaveCraze]

I don't really think that a lot of people are going to take the time to read mine because it seems like scroll format/color comics reign supreme on platforms like these...
So not even story-wise, the niche is black and white page format.

[DreamyPastel]

I definitely feel my comic would resonate a lot with people who like somewhat dark but lighthearted animated shows like Gravity Falls, Owl House, Over the Garden Wall, etc. I absolutely adored Gravity Falls and OTGW growing up and it essentially subconsciously affected the story of my comic down the line haha. But overall though I don't make my comic with a specific audience in mind, I just like telling the story I've made and if people like it, then that's cool!

[bulgariansumo]

I'm guessing the niche for my novels would be:

• People who still watch narrative-driven cartoons even though they aged out of the target demographic.
• People who like cutesy indie games with unexpected darkness. (not too much in my case, though)
• People who like overanalyzing characters.

(I would've said fans of Earthbound-inspired indie RPGs for the second bullet point, but I don't know if my style of humor is quite the same as those. Fans of those might like my story too, though.)

[GumshoeComix]

my comic is 17+ as default as talks about CSA from an adult perspective/ how childhood trauma affects us when we're older/ which is inherently niche.
That and the fact that each ark is about my main character being forced to murder someone without his choosing.
The readers are supposed to feel uncomfortable
For me, this is a vent story so I know only specific people are going to understand it. And that's fine.