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Chocolate
Aug '23

I would love to know some tips. My comic is stagnant at 50 subs for like a year now. 🥲

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moontokkym
Aug '23
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Err... Not much? I posted every week and hoped for the best. I learned early on that I'm not famous enough anywhere for my promoting on social media to really do anything so I haven't been really.

I've posted on like 5 promotion threads ever and I'll post my new chapter links in my discord servers with friends but they only read the french version on webtoon if they read them at all. Other people'll be coming from me talking to them in person at conventions but again, mainly on webtoon for the french version.

So yeah, a lot of luck on tapas. Someone upstairs noticed my comic and put it in a feature about a month after I first started publishing and now my comic just pops up in places on the community tab now and again.

Like Kate often says, to get featured it helps to have a good comic, so having a professionnal-looking cover (that is actually indicative of the art in the comic), readable text size, a good interesting summary and a decent hook in your first few pages. Seeing as getting featured is still by far the most effective for me, I'd recommend focusing on making something with quality and then doing what you can to get noticed. I'm pretty sure entering my banner to the banner feature helped me get noticed for example.

KelheorRegular
Aug '23

Posting.
For my first comic on Tapas, it also took some reworking it, i.e. making the font bigger.
For my recent comic it was also a boost from the contest banner feature.
Although all of those were post 100 subs I think, the idea here that improving stuff and trying to get yourself out there also may help :slight_smile:

darthmongoose
Aug '23

You only have eleven episodes, your last one was posted over a month ago and isn't a comic episode, it's somebody else's drawing of a mermaid. You haven't posted an update with actual comic panels that tell a story since April.

If you want to build a following with a comic that people read, you have to make a comic. You have to consistently upload comic pages or episodes that tell a story.

Make a cover with your title on it in a nice, clear, but decorative font, with an image that shows the characters in a way that hints at what the comic is about.

Then pick a story, and start regularly making and uploading pages or episodes that tell that story. Stop stopping your story all the time to change the story you're telling, or to post random bits of art and things. People can't get invested in the characters or situation if you keep changing the comic they're reading to be a different story, or not a story at all!

All I did to get 100 subs was to keep making pages, a couple a week, without interruptions like random artwork. I picked Tapas because I could see comics that mix Fantasy with relationship drama and especially showcasing authentic LGBTQ+ experiences doing well here. I designed a nice title font (this was before Tapas comics had covers. They just had thumbnails and a banner back then), and I planned out a story starting with a sympathetic protagonist in an interesting scenario that creates tension due to potential opportunity, drama and danger. I made pages to as consistent a style and quality as I could, uploaded them, then I posted about it on the forums and social media.

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