What is the ideal frequency to update your comic?

[AdrenalineShots]

I know that some feel too much I'd just as bad as too little, so what is best? Twice a week, one at beginning and one at end? Has anyone experimented with the amount of subs that you get based on frequency and also when you update?

[Shanny8]

I stick to one page a week. I work a FT job that sometimes has me working a little more than the usual 40, so I dont have time to post 2 pages a week.

[danitasibert]

I upload three times a week, cause my series is a long one so I wanted more frequent uploads, while if I had a shorter series i would upload it maybe twice a week!

whatever work for you really!

[sarrowsmith10]

This is a good question and has been answered many times:

I am currently doing biweekly for my webcomic Beyond The Sky and wondering if that is not enough. With work and school I know I can commit to biweekly but might have to bite the bullet and sleep and make it weekly.

So... my comic, White Angel (http://tapastic.com/series/White-Angel), is a long-form serial story that I just started uploading to Tapastic. At my current rate, I can only turn out about 1 page per week. frowning Sad reality... but having a day job that actually feeds me takes precedence. So my question is... how do you prefer to update your comic? Do you do it at a regular cadence of 1-page-per-week? Or do you release by chapter? What makes you prefer one over the other? Tapastic seems bet…

I own a comic named Understanding Nothing, and i'm curious about ow often i should update it. My comic isn't plot based, and is one of those comics attempting to make you laugh. Currently i update once a week (Wednesdays). I have a scheduled Hiatus going on (Ending next week), and post a full week of comics after that which i have dubbed a "Comixplosion". Im curious about how much i should update to keep my readers satisfied, while still maintaining enough free time to keep my comic as a fun hob…

[Lumdrop]

I put a great deal of work into my pages. Because of the themes of my comic, color and lighting are pretty much essential to the storytelling so I decided to go with full color and shading and never looked back.
I'm only able to do a page per week at most, so my first 22 page story still isn't finished ^^b

I don't think a strict schedule is necessary if you put a lot of work into it, but at least once a week seems like the safest choice. If it's a simple art style or something that you can draw quickly, then the art load isn't as heavy so you could actually push yourself to have quicker uploads.

[awesomefeelsman]

1 page per week is a good one. Twice a week if you're capable. I personally enjoy long updates that have 20 or more pages coz it saves me the pain of anticipating what's gonna happen next. But I like twice a week because it let's me get regular updates without forgetting the story's chronology.

[Aspie_Gamer]

Thrice a week to keep things flowing at a reasonable pace and so that you might actually finish your comic before your hair turns gray.

[fatemehmemar]

I am pretty sure the amount of effort one has to put in for a comic is way more than a novel but I update my Novel Youria The Third twice a week and I am drowning. So I think if you are a full time employee Once a week should work just fine for a comic.

[jpnakashima]

I feel consistency is the best, no matter how many times you post. Posting in definite time windows is better than like 3 pages this week and then 3 in 5 months.

That said, Tapas really open up to different schedules. It's kind of a cop out, but to me the ideal frequency is the one that allows the creator to do well what he wants to do in a continuous and frequent pace.

[shazzbaa]

Honestly depends on the style of comic. A story comic where a decent amount of story happens on each page can get away with once a week. A three-panel gag-a-day can't. Or, for another example, a story comic with more atmospheric manga-style pacing needs more frequent updates so it doesn't feel like "nothing happened" after a month of updates.

My comic was designed to be read at one page a week, and when I first started uploading on Tapas at 3 pages, 3 times a week to get caught up, it ended up being so dense that readers would miss hugely important or obvious information that my weekly website readers had caught just fine.

So outside of like, what's ideal to attract people and not spam notifications (no less than once a week, no more than daily), different comics are gonna have very different ideals.

[darkone4587]

I update daily but take haitus's quite frequently. I say that when you have something you can post, but it's good to take a break every now and then.

[noreception]

One of my comic is a comic strip so I can maintain updating once every week. Another one is story-based but I just choose to update whenever I'm free. I think the amount of subs do depend on the frequency since the recently updated always show up first in the newest sections and people will go on there but it also depends on the quality of your comic aesthetic and plotwise.

[ChanYE]

ive got school so one episode per month is all i can handle.

[YangKoete]

Once a week or biweekly if your comic is larger/takes more time.

Just so long as the readers appreciate the timing.

[gh0stcr33p]

once a week. preferably weekends

[Velome]

I update every two days since I've got plenty of pages!

However, once I have like 13 pages or so remaining, I will update twice or once a week.