i haven't had 'bad' comments. just ones that are completely offsubject lol.
think the rudest one i've gotten is like 'when you like the antagonist over the protagonist' it makes me feel a lil awkward since thats the chara i work the hardest one--
I think it is fine that some readers prefer the antagonist than the protagonist, however it should not be reproached to the author like that. Also, it does not mean the author did a mistake, it may be simply a personality difference between author and reader.
I often feel closer to antagonists that are non human sentient creatures like aliens or fantasy non human races, for example. I find it is difficult to comment politely to explain that. Sometimes the author get upset no matter how it is explained. But in my opinion the minimum the commenter should do is explain the personal path that made them feel closer/more empathetic to the antagonist, or sinply more interesting, due to the commenter personnal interests and expectations.
Edit: re reading it, the comment you receive can be taken a different way too, as 'when you (=me, the reader) is so weird that...) which is not a critic toward you at all. But it's not very clear.
I'd say the worst comment I've had so far is " It took you that long to draw that?" and that was yesterday in a conversation with someone I know.
It just rubbed me the wrong way as immediately after they went on to show me a bunch of artwork they had done in "minutes" as if to make a point.
Outside of that nothing.
Oh I got a good one.
Context if you're curious
I was drawing a costume for a contest and posting it on reddit but I didn't know what I was doing. I ended up uploading it like five times (like an 80 yr old learning to use an ipad or something). Friends from the game teased me about it but this guy interpreted it differently. Apparently I suck though o.o
I really don't get the sense people will deliberately comment rudely on this site. It's mostly taking it the wrong way but only appropriate response is not giving a shit. If it's not helpful, then I don't give it attention
Never really received anything negative yet, but one sub never commented except for one years ago when my skills weren't still all that polished:
"Wow, she looks like a man."
yeah and i think it's fine if its like that.
it was when someone was upset over the protagonist of my comic but tbh i've been getting some criticisms about him being kinda 'flat' which makes me go 'ahh :("
It's a shame then that people don't tell you why they find the protagonist flat, then (Or why they appear flat when compared to the antagonist). 'Flat' does not help much. I can't promise to check it anytime soon because I have so much of a backlog of comics to read, but I put it on my to-read list with a note about that. It is Star boy, right?
The number one thing I hate about the internet: people bravely punch others in the throat just because they can. I'm really sorry that someone said that to you. 
Actually, maybe I shouldn't even say 'bravely', because I doubt these kinds of people would say anything like that in real life. So, more like 'cowardly'.
Eh, it doesn't bother me. It made me wonder why my piece didn't do well in comparison to others and there were several factors. The last place you should ever go for confirmation of feelgoods is reddit.
I cold probably find his original comment in the history but that was the easiest to find
yeah! its up to you if you wanna give it a read, i never wanna push people to read it.
but him initially being the way he is is like a massive story element
plus its still early in the comic to rREALLLYLYYY JUDGE
It was years and years ago, on another website.
I was sort of in a bad place already with burnout and feeling low about my comic when I got a comment that amounted to "I don't know why people read this overrated crap. The art is garbage and the story doesn't make any sense."
I'm kinda sad to say that was the last straw for that comic. (Though, my current comic is a reboot of that old one hahaha. Guess I beat the troll in the end.)
I've gotten more hate than that over the years, but I think I remember that one just because of the timing of it.
Sorry! Shocking cause I just subscribed to several of your work today, and I love them. I guess everyone has a right to their feelings but it’s not an artist or writer’s fault you don’t know how to unsubscribe. Bleh. Just wanted to let you know I quite enjoy your work! 
like some others said,the worst "comment" i've recieved from "readers" were complete silence. but that silence was added with a rating of 1/10,and so far these are most of the votes i've had for my comic. not only the fact that it dosn't help,it's straight up sabotage,my comic's stuck with a low rating,and so far none of those who voted this low bothered even telling me the reason....
so far i had only 1 comment,but that was actual fair criticism and the guy didn't rate me from what i know,the people who did rate me and rated me low said nothing.
i don't know how much i deserve for my comic,but i sure as hell know i don't deserve to get rated that low,and if i do,i worked hard enough to atleast know why... otherwise those ratings are literally a worse way to say "USUCKLOL"
From mangatoon: "i don't understand a thing​
...its just that m skipping through the pages. At first i thought the long haired was a girl until i saw him in the. shower​
"
-maybe you'd understand if you read it instead of skipping... and I keep on getting baffled by people surprised that a BL series with a description clearly stating that it's about a gay couple has male protagonists, like, do those people even look at what they click?
and from webtoon: "Tf u talkin bout... this shit boring asf​
️️" - that's just plain mean
Didn't answer any of these ;p also can't recall any such comments from tapas - I've got really supportive readers here ^^ also no mean comments from comicfury and globalcomix, though I don't get that many comments there in general ;p
I also had a beta reader comment repeatedly "what's that supposed to mean?" Or "Did you mean it like that?" The worst part was that they refused to clarify what they meant by that. My lines weren't complicated and all the dialogue was written to sound as natural as possible. Nothing too complex!
tapas hasn't given me poor/mean comments, but I did get a few here and there on youtube. The comment was some middle school kid (yes they said their age in the comment) and it was something like, I can do better than this, blah blah blah, this thing sucks, blah blah. I basically responded with, Look at the video date. Its a few years old, and yes I can do better than this now to, so have a nice life somewhere else if you don't like it. I think I handled it pretty well, because I know that my fanbase at the time would have called them out on it (as it happened before) and I didn't want that to happen again. Another poor comment I got, although not insulting to me or my work, was a link to a porn site. Bots be putting these links in the wrong places. I was actually sad, as it was my first comment on DA and I was hoping for it be be another artist. NOPE. 
I'm too small for bad comments but replying to bot comments if I did and they could feel, would be "Please for the love that is holy leave me alone. I don't want your virus filled garbage on my page. Leave me alone. Try a site full of neckbeards if you want success in that scam"
I haven't gotten mean comments on my works yet. I am very grateful for that, but I did have someone randomly target me and call me the N word on one person's comic and told me something to effect of that they wish they could flag my comment and called me the three letter F word on another comic. I wasn't talking about anything except how cute the comic was on both occasions so I boiled it down to someone just wanted to be a troll. I ignored them and the comments were deleted by the creators.
Oh, for some maybe-necessary context, this is from a story about that popular Bowsette character from a few years ago. Bowser ends up coming out of the closet as transgender partway through the story (this sounds really stupid out of context) and then that becomes a very important part about the rest of the story. Based on the chapter they commented on, the reviewer didn't like something I did involving shipping and wrote this obviously because they thought it would cut me deep to call me a "bigot" but I found it funny more than anything else.
The worst comment was from someone who wanted to promote his shi** in my comment section, writing to MY readers. 
"YOU MIGHT ENJOY MY COMIC BETTER!! (LINK)"
This probably doesn't count as comment by a "reader", but it's pretty insulting to dismiss my content.
Noooo! That's so rude! I'm sorry that happened to you. (I've also had this happen on other socials where people pop onto my art and ramble about their stuff... On my art. About my novel. Trying to promo themselves and push me out of the way. On my own posts. No one is there for someone else on my posts! They'll be there for the person on their own dang posts. It's so rude and tone-deaf.)
I kinda blame that on the whole system when people do that (and I'm sure I've inadvertently done it myself at some point). You have to constantly self-promote to get eyeballs on your work and so people are so invested in the "hustle" that they forget to use common decency and let people enjoy their own stuff. It's not a valid excuse but I do understand it.
Oh, absolutely! I understand the struggle of self-promo but I would be lying if I said it it didn't irritate me. 
Luckily, I've been able to take care of the issue by only allowing followers to comment on my insta. 
Haven't had an issue with self-promo comments since then. (I believe they would find me through the recent tags? It would always be rap accounts or photography accounts when I'm a manga artist lol!) The only time I ever felt someone was being truly malicious with me was a long,long time ago. I had a person going on and on about how powerful their character was over mine which was uh... I just quit replying because I was beginning to feel embarrassed for the person. It was really weird and I was getting the off feeling that they were upset by the attention I was getting on the post. (They may have been a kid, I really don't know. I just let it go for their sake.)
So mine is a little weird but I drew this art on tumblr once and it got reblogged into an RP group that was like using my image as an avatar for their...uh...very sexual RP stuff. And like...when you do that, I get notified every single time the art is RT'd with all this uhhh sexual stuff??? It was very awkward for me??? So anyways, I didn't tell them not to use my art or anything, I just blocked their accounts and then had to delete the original post and re-upload it so it was no longer used for some...online hookup thing.
Hopefully they rediscovered eachother on missed connections or something because uh I deleted their steamy date. Also please don't do this if you're on tumblr. Please don't do sexy RP with people's art right in front of their faces when they uh...are just trying to live their life.
It is true they did. Police didn’t have female officers until the early 20th century though and even then they did very different types of jobs. Mostly desk work or answering the phone or as plain clothes officers. Definitely not on the rank or type of work as the dudes.
Definitely. The "divisions" that the detective agencies had were. of course, women who could go were men couldn't. One agency employed an actress (big surprise there lol) and I believe a Russian princess.
There was a fascinating article I found once written in Australia about the British female private detectives. And there was on in the US who used to advertise in the papers. It's been ages since I did any of that research. And then, on the other side of the coin, you had the 40 Elephants Crime syndicate that was all female and active up until the 1960's or longer and way before the 1890's.
People are just too mired in that old Victorian stereotype.
Been making comics for so long it's hard to remember all of the worse ones I've gotten (I've gotten quite the handful, my memory is just bad, which I'm kinda grateful for in this context) and am honestly just relieved to see this thread and remember that other comic artists go through similar stuff to me! Hang in there everyone!
Now that I’m talking with you about it I remember a novel written in 1915 I think called Piccadilly jim and it actually did feature a female detective! And she was kind of amazing and insane like the one from Madagascar 3
1 month later
Lol my comic was reposted here: https://imgur.com/gallery/xOs7f5e9
And there had been some interesting comments on there...
^lol I wish I had one honestly... I'm working on this comic solo
^maybe not too bad tbh what do you guys think?
Not on tapas yet-- thankfully! But someone on reddit got VERY upset at my drawings in which i put cat ears on a musician i really liked. Like, this was the stuff they were mad at:
They really didn't like it, especially because I'm probably a furry, and for some reason they hates furries. Anyway, the acted as if it was the most disrespectful thing you could EVER draw, and then said they'd rather have someone draw them realistically in bed with said musician. And I'M the disrespectful one???
I ended up painting this picture as a "fuck you" to them. Why they hate catboy memes so much, I'll never know
You have to find a way to ignore comments, it only does you harm.
I can only give one advice from making the mistake for a long time,
don´t read reviews, comments and only focus on your art.
You can get advice elsewhere and don´t depend on praise in comments,
it means nothing and just distracts you from what you should do, then
you read a bad comment or a hate comment and spend time on it
which you should spend into something positive like practice & creation
Other than the monochrome complaints I used to get and the "too-short" comments I'd say the worst one I got was from this individual who subbed my comic and just kept comparing it to Devil May Cry and other franchises like Black Butler and Bleach in every freaking episode. I asked them to stop but they kept going so I ended up blocking him so he couldn't read the series on that account anymore.
Thing that really irks me is I dislike both Black Butler and Bleach.
I think every artist has to read through years and years of negative junk about their art. One comment I remember well is "She looks like a man." Not the cruelest comment I've ever gotten, but it stung a lot.
Most commenters have been kind to my comic. I had one commenter who implied that because my characters have horns, they all screw animals. I think it was intended to be a joke, but it really didn't land.