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You know, we're still kind of new, but what's helped us out a lot so far is addressing short-comings or challenges and seeing how to solve them or rise above them. That should be the first goal for Tapas folks always. Tapas already does an amazing job of monitoring things for you, views, subscriptions, etc., so work with this valuable info. Do you have a page that didn't get many likes, for instance? Write on your wall and find out what was different about it, get a survey and then answer your comments. Stuff like that.

As far as the subscription challenge goes, that's easy really to get past, but it requires you to do a little hard work too, and that means telling people on social media, other forums, comic sites, link exchanges, wherever you feel you can reach the kind of sites that work best with what your comic offers. For example, one of our webcomics is "Insignificant Otters", and since the comic revolves around otters, we plan to check out some of the most popular forums for otters especially and subscribe and post pages of our comics there. So think about the content you're actually dealing with, and then find your audience that would deal specifically.

One thing we have found helpful is actually interviewing other comic artists, which is a LOT of fun. And since we've both spent the last 20 years or so interviewing all kinds of celebs, this comes naturally for us.

Our only challenge right now is being NEW. But we already have a massive audience from another webcomic we do, a more daring one which we cannot post here, so when we told them we were doing a comic strip, they came running. ^^ So if you already have a built-in audience anywhere, start there for sure. Friends, family, co-workers also, let them know what you're doing, show them what you're doing, and get them to spread word too.

We're Scribes Unlimited and we actually have two webcomics here:

"Insignificant Otters"
https://tapas.io/series/IOtters

"Island Girls"
https://tapas.io/series/Island-Girls

Thanks everyone, and don't worry. If you've got a good webcomic, you can succeed. :heart:

Under 100 and barely reaching 20.

My challenges is marketing the webcomic, building fanbase, and gaining traffic for my webcomic. I use instagram and forums to promote webcomic. I worked on my webcomic on weekdays and already had a large 80-page/11-month buffer which gives me an advantage. I was treating my webcomic as a job or work for me with patreon on my side. I also update consistently. I ran this webcomic since June so it's relatively new. Also being a new webcomic artist who just started and having very small to no social media following is a challenge.

Here's my slice-of-life webcomic, Chion and Kobi. A charming story about a boy and his guinea pig pet in early 2000s Maine town.


I think it belongs here, because every time before I start a project (a novel in my case) I go through a tough period of trying to figure out of there is audience for each idea I have on file. And which one has the biggest chance to be noticed.

So far I had small successes here and there, but I also had a huge misfire with a romantic comedic fantasy. It was a reimagined story of chivalric love, a Princess who wanted to marry a Dragon (shifter). I thought it was a lovely story, but I guess comedy has its time and place and last spring just wasn’t it.

I am looking at the ways for me, with my style and my writing, to get into the genres with traditionally large audience, like fantasy-BL and Werewolves, but I am always worried about balancing out what interests me/the story I can tell & what the site’s build-in audience is looking for and will follow.

This is where I am right now.

We have found Instagram to be very limiting, since everyone is looking for photos these days, and especially from cameras only. =P We had better success with Tumblr. Not only could we post WIP and special art, but we could re-produce the whole comic series there. A lot of comic creators do that too. ^^

I'm under 10 suscribers, who can beat that? haha! :grin: (newbie here)
but this stuff I'm making is goood so I keep on until it's finished and then continue making another one and then another one and so on.
I guess my problem is not having enough time to do the marketing stuff in all the social media, bad internet to keep in touch to other people and all those social skills one has to learn forcefully in high school didn't do much to me I guess haha But I enjoy in doing what I do and I hope other people could enjoy to read it as well :relieved:

I'm at 47 Subs right now, I want to make it to 100.

Here are my comics, Enjoy




https://tapas.io/episode/1775200



https://tapas.io/episode/1847819

Aww, woke up to 97 subs this morning. So close... :innocent:

Currently at 33 subs for Psetha, so pretty long way until I get to 100. :thinking:

Thanks. :grin: I would call you Domisotto but using your full name felt too formal haha

54 subscribers now. Won't be too long before we have to leave this club and start the "Under 250 but at least 100" one. =)

My friend and I released our first ever webtoon yesterday ... she's illustrating, I'm writing. Since we just started posting less than 24 hours ago, we obviously have less than 100 subs (still in the single digits!) :cry:

It's a slice-of-life autobiography with a "slow burn" love story thrown into the mix. Enjoy! :blush:

Also available on Webtoon:

Best wishes to all the other Creators out there! :heart_eyes:

I have ten subs and just started publishing. I have a new chapter every day for two weeks and then I'm going to weekly.

It's a supernatural romance with werewolves, witches and supernatural abilities. It also takes place in Canada, because why not.

https://m.tapas.io/series/The-Sea-and-the-Wolf/1