Not a "consistent" schedule - always a bad thing?

@AnnaLandin Anna Landin
Mon, 25 Apr 2016 11:31:18 +0000

@AnnaLandin wrote:

I do a storybased comic, which I update consistently (except when I get, like, food poisoning or the cold from hell that had me practically bedridden for a week straight). For me, that consistent schedule matters because if I go too long between updates, my readers might lose track of the plot, or who the characters are, etc. If I just updated whenever, people might a.) forget what's going on, or b.) be flooded with pages and not know where they were and whether they've missed something.

I agree that subscribing to a comic on Tapastic means I don't need to keep track of the updating schedules of other comics - I just get notifications when they do - but at the same time, if something goes for too long without updating, and then suddenly does, I find myself having to re-read earlier pages to even know what's going on.

For gag-strips or the like, a regular schedule isn't as important - people don't need to keep track of long-running plotlines, etc. - but it certainly doesn't hurt, as the more regular the updates, the fresher you comic is in people's minds, and the more often it appears in the Fresh category, which can net you new readers.

I can't think of a scenario where irregular, whenever-it's-done updates are superior to regular updates, though.