Post a comic in multiple places

[Squeakybat]

I was wondering if any one else here posts their comic on Tumblr?
How many different place have you posted your comic?
Which place do you prefer?

I originally posted my comic, Stellar Persona, on Tumblr and then recently discover Tapastic and started post here as well. I like both but I was wondering if one of these would be a better platform to use or if keeping the comic in multiple places is better?

[joannekwan]

Yep, I initially posted Demon House on tumblr, but then my friend suggested I look into Tapastic and I started mirroring. I've garnered a lot more views and subs here though so this is my primary site now.

[heterodont]

Use both platforms, tumblr's tagging system is great for getting your comic out there (seeing as tapastic's tagging doesn't quite work...yet) as well as people are able to reblog your pages and thus spread your audience. Not to mention on the offchance if either tumblr or tapastic are down, people interested in reading your comic can just go to the other website that's still up to read rather than wait around for the website to come back up.

I used to upload to smackjeeves but I forgot to upload a buffer during my move last year and now it's behind by 3 months :x
Tumblr isn't really ideal for me bc for the images to show up properly without blurriness the resolution has to be 1280x1920 and my comic pages fall short of that.

[joannekwan]

bc for the images to show up properly without blurriness the resolution has to be 1280x1920

Really? I always wondered what caused that! It's weird because with a single page upload it looks good and clear, but more than one image NOPE.

[heterodont]

Yep! Tumblr's photosets have weird requirements...I always upload two images, the actual drawing and a buffer image thats only 1px high so in order for my stuff to show up clearly I have to resize it to either 1280 wide or 1920 tall.

[Kayke]

I post my short comics on my art tumblr and they do pretty well there. But I think that's because they're self contained. For my big webcomic where I update one page a week I don't think Tumblr is really great for that, so I have a wordpress site for it.

[Ringarune]

I use tumblr mostly for extras for my comic, it don't like that you can't scroll to the exact page u want but instead have to click through multiple pages to get there, plus, i think it's harder to get exposure on there, at least for me. I upload my comic on medibang and webtoon as well. Webtoon is pretty easy to exposure from, but the rating system annoys me plus it's hard to interact with your viewers. Medibang is kind of a new platform, so we'll see how it goes.

[phen]

I have the same issue as @Ringarune when it comes to uploading comics on tumblr -- reblogs have the potential to be awesome but with the sites webcomic/comic/art tags as flooded as they are, it's difficult to get a leg up! Self-contained comics (ie, one-shots) seem to do much better over there but anything with a running story seems to get lost, heh!

As for other places to post a comic, I think a personal website is awesome. As mentioned above, it's especially helpful when the other sites go offline for maintenance or whatever. Regardless, it's always good to share the comic on as many platforms as possible to get it out there and reach as big of an audience as possible!

[VermillionWorks]

I put Daniel all over the damn place.
At it's own site (which updates a page ahead of all of my other mirrors)
At Tapastic
At Smackjeeves
At Deviantart
....and though it's only updated once in a blue moon, at LINE Webtoon.

WHY? Because I like making things hard on myself, I guess. XD I keep thinking about dropping one of them, but I get a decent amount of views n' such from all of them, so it's hard to. So far Tapastic has been my favorite though and absolutely wouldn't be a mirror I'd drop, and I definitely think it's better for webcomics than Tumblr.

I only post update notices at my Tumblr, not the actual pages, save for maybe cover art.

[mariusthered]

nope Tapastic is now the only place to find my comics. I did have them on my own site too but i took them all down and put a link to here. how ever should anyone want to see a map of my city the address is talesfromswipecity map I am putting other stuff up there too but have lots of work to do yet.

[stephensharpe707]

Tumblr and Tapastic only, though I've had so much more response from Tapastic users. Having the comments section is a major plus!

I just keep the tumblr page now because I put it on all my business cards at conventions...

[kazukitakamura126]

I post my comics on Deviant Art and here at Tapastic. I don't too many social media accounts or it will be a hassle managing them all.

[demthorshie]

I post my comic in various different places including on my own website as well as on Tumblr and occasionally Deviant Art. I sometimes get lucky with Tumblr and get some good reblogs, but I feel like it's really hard to be seen there in general! I've gotten a lot more recognition here on Tapastic than on tumbr and deviant art so far.

[camillabluejay]

I have a tumblr too, but no one ever seems to look at it. What tags do you use to get noticed on it?

[AnnaLandin]

Yes, I post in multiple places.

Grassblades has a main website and a tumblr mirror. I also post early-access pages on Patreon for $3-backers and up (backers are always 2 pages ahead of regular readers).

Of those, I prefer Tapastic and my main website - Tapastic because it has a lot more activity going on, with readers commenting and sharing the comic and hanging out on the forum and all that, and my main website because it's, well, mine. I have character profiles, etc. It doesn't look perfect, because what the heck do I know about web-design, but it looks okay, and it lets me have little extra-pages that Tapastic doesn't.

The Tumblr-mirror is only a kind of backup - and Patreon isn't really intended as the main reading-platform for my comic; it's just a place for me to give treats and extras to my backers. As soon as the regular sites have caught up with what's posted on Patreon, I take those pages down and only leave the extras.

[Shanny8]

You want to post your comic in as many places as you can that are advantageous to you garnering more readers.

[Mharz]

The Angel with Black Wings have a main site, tapastic, comicfury, smackjeeves.

I scheduled my pages on comicfury and smackjeeves so I don't have to visit their site all the time. I also upload 2 page late on these sites because I'm favoring Tapastic more because of the Ad Revenue.

I'm not really good at managing too many sites because I get too lazy to check them all the time and sometimes I forget to check them at all.

[Jrej]

I started posting Shades Of Men only on my website.
Surprisingly that didn't reach much people!

A few years later I mirrored it on Tapastic and LINE Webtoon.
I had originally plan to update per chapter everytime one is over however I had so much response from Tapastic that I added a page update as well.

Sometimes I even think about dropping my main site since I don't get much traffic there but it feels like my own quiet home where I can move furniture around once in a while and no one complains about the noise.

[Doubtcent]

For new stuff: Tapastic, with links to Twitter
For old stuff: Twitter and Tumblr
For art: Twitter and Tumblr

[Creaux]

Tapstic has a far more accessible and friendlier community. People come here to read webcomics and even my own dinky no-name comics have audiences because of the way that Tapastic draw people down click-holes. They like one type of comic and look for more? They're bound to come across you. On tumblr, you're buried under every other type of blogging. Tumblr isn't exactly good for... Anything. It's a wide platform of "DO ANYTHING" where people sort of laze about but don't look for material to read.

Tapastic>Tumblr, it's made so you can be seen and read and it does the job well.