Places to show higher resolution comic pages?

[rucalikes]

Hello fellow comic creators!
As the title mentions, I was wondering what ways do the comic creators on this forum share their higher resolution pages of their comic.

I am hoping to print my comic one day, so I do single page comics in B5 size (182mm x 257mm, 600dpi since its black and white) which is the standard Dojin size here in Japan.

I also tend to draw fine lines, so when I export and resize my pages to fit the tapas/webtoon size restriction, some details seem to unfortunately vanish ^^;

Doing some research I’ve seen some creators uploading higher resolution pages on their Patreon, but are there other websites or ways that you share your higher resolution comics with your readers?

Would love to know, thank you!

TL;DR Where do you upload high resolution comic pages?

[Mallory]

Comicfury.com lets you use whatever size you want. I think you might need to host it externally if you want the files to be really big (I'm not sure, since mine are always under the limit), but their template supports whatever size comic you want. I'm a big fan of the service, too. For being free and non-profit it's really creator-friendly.

[artamazon]

GlobalComix is my new favorite comics host. They have no size limit and have all sorts of awesome tools for setting up panel reading, page reading and vert scroll reading.

[rucalikes]

I've heard the name of that website pop up in the other forums. Seems nice that they have templates, and that you can also customise the design of the page to match the tone of your comic. I will have look into it, thank you for your answer!

[rucalikes]

Oh I have never heard of this one, but it seems quite a new-ish platform (since 2019)? Seems great that it includes tools such as panel reading, as I often get worried my panel order isn't too confusing I will further look into this one as well, thank you for your answer!

[DarkChibiShadow]

The classic, Deviantart, is still a fine place to upload higher res versions of your pages, but tbqh, Tapas has a really good page limit size and doesn't garble the quality like Webtoons does. Your comic looks great on here! already looks high res, so I wouldn't worry too much about platforms outside of like, idk, maybe Patreon so you could show off bigger versions of the pages there for folks who wanna see.

Good luck with your comic!

[rucalikes]

I am not quite tech savvy, but I've heard Deviantart is still good because unlike other platforms the pictures appear when you image search in google, which I think is good for getting noticed..? But thank you for your kind words, maybe I should focus on other things if quality doesn't seem to be too much of an issue!

Btw I'm a subscriber of Solanaceae. Just wanted to say I love your artwork, and the chemistry between Sal and Battam

[DarkChibiShadow]

Oh yes, the Google thing is a very good point! If you name your files stuff like "yaoi comic with cute protagonist" that will also help your work appear in Google, just as a heads-up. (It's called SEO, if you're curious about optimizing that.)
And yeah, I think focusing on either advertising your comic around social media and other sites, and generally just updating it, would be a good thing.

Also aw, what! Thanks so much for subbing and your super nice comment! That made my day

[rucalikes]

Ohh I see, that is how SEO works! I should look into that too, once I get used to things. Many thanks for the helpful tips!

And it's my pleasure! Hope you don't mind I follow your other socials too

[Nimloth]

Oh I have never heard of this one, but it seems quite a new-ish platform (since 2019)? Seems great that it includes tools such as panel reading, as I often get worried my panel order isn't too confusing

Hi there- creator of GlobalComix here. Happy to field any questions you might have

[rucalikes]

Hello @Nimloth , thank you for offering to help!

Since this is a great opprtunity may I ask:
1. GlobalComix has no image size restrictions, but does this mean that the image size can be as big as we want it? (This may be extreme but for example few hundred MB?)
2. I see there is a multi-language publishing option for professional plans, but does this mean for the free plan the default language will be English?

[Nimloth]

Since this is a great opprtunity may I ask:1. GlobalComix has no image size restrictions, but does this mean that the image size can be as big as we want it? (This may be extreme but for example few hundred MB?)2. I see there is a multi-language publishing option for professional plans, but does this mean for the free plan the default language will be English?

@rucalikes

1) Yes - currently the hard cap on an image upload is 100mb, and 3.2GB for PDF archives to account for large HQ omnibuses. Our system will automatically resize and optimize the version presented to readers for their device while retaining as high as quality as we can

2) Actually - that needs to be updated. Multi-language is now available in the free tier, but what the meant initially is that you choose your primary (any language), and ability to add more was gated. As per today, adding many languages is available to anyone.

Hope this helps!

[rucalikes]

@Nimloth
Thank you! These were very useful to know, especially the language one!