What will you do in the instance of tragedy?

[Chocolate]

What will happened to your comic once you passed? It’s a grim question, but let’s be realistic and think of a plan rather than just going into the future blindsided.

*For me: if my comic gets super popular; I will write the ending script and hand my comic over to someone who loved my work just as much.

What about you?

[EverydayWonderlander]

It's something I've given a lot of thought.

I don't care if my work isn't popular. But what is important to me is that it's finished and out there. So the people I trust have copies of the work, behind the scenes. It doesn't need to be drawn all the way out.

As long as it's out there, it's okay for it to be unpolished or ugly.

[darthmongoose]

If I found out I was terminally ill and wouldn't have time to complete my comic, I'd probably release a synopsis publicly of what was going to happen in the rest of the story so everyone could get closure. Maybe I'd even release all the scripts for scenes I never put in there, stuff like that. My comic is available to read for free, so however popular it gets, I'd want everyone to be able to access the ending for free too, even if I wasn't around.

[Chocolate]

You wouldn’t handle your work over to another artist to finish it?

[darthmongoose]

You wouldn’t handle your work over to another artist to finish it?

I mean... I'd leave the rights to my partner, and if they wanted to pay somebody to complete it they could, but my comic makes double digits on a good month, so that'd only work if it became significantly more popular and could reliably make enough in income to pay for the artist and/or writer to complete it.

It wouldn't be quite the same though... like it's so rare for a creator to hand something off to another creator and for it to not feel like something different. Homestuck^2 isn't the same as Homestuck, Boruto isn't the same as Naruto etc. I feel like at least some readers would rather have a synopsis and imagine how I'd have done it than to see an artist and writer with a different approach to comedy, characterisation etc. try to draw and write my characters and probably never perfectly match the tone of my work.

[Lensing]

I´ll be preparing something in the next years.
A recording, I will record every instrument and sing on it.
I´ll do the artwork and I´ll draw a comic which will be in the vinyl single sleeve.
It will be a 10" record because that´s my favorite format.
My ashes will be in the vinyl. There is a company who offers that.
It will be a pressing of 100. 90 of them will go to people that I choose,
10 will be sold. So there are only 10 of the records sold on the open market.
I hope people will care about it and it will be a collector´s item for rockabilly vinyl collectors.
Maybe nobody cares, I will never know

[Chocolate]

That sounds so cool! Didn’t want to be morbid but I want to go out with a bang and have my comic loved for decades to come. ️

[Lensing]

Sounds very Hunter S.Thompson like,
I love that.
I want to leave a creative impression too, I hope I will.
Something people dance to, cry or something that will make
people laugh would be cool

[RedLenai]

Honestly... I won't worry much since, everything I'm doing right now is working for other people, so I believe the easiest outcome would be to hire someone else once I'm unavailable.

[ccmatta]

As someone who's mentally ill and almost died a couple of times, I think about it a lot. And I still haven't come with a solid plan, but I may write a sumarry of the possible end of my comic, and as I have a lot already writen, I may ask a friend to post it as a novel, maybe translate it to english and post it for those who really enjoy my work and want to know how it goes. I don't know any friend who'd take the project and draw it for free so keep the comic alive is a no xD so it'd have to live as a novel unfortunetly.
But I do think of leaving all my notes about it and asking someone to share it with those who follow my comic. As I imagine my death being programed, I'd plan all this ahead, so it'd be easier on the people who'd be responsible for it. But I think it'd be one of my last wishes, to share my work that I loved to do. In the case of a sudden death.................... well, I don't have any planned yet, so I may do that soon hahaha who knows

[powerplantanimations]

Damn it, I was going to do this funny joke where I say "I'm practically immortal" and then I just start mashing the keyboard like my face slammed against it something, but Tapas keeps saying "is this a complete sentence?" so I guess I'll answer properly.

If I ever somehow reach popularity, I'd actually dedicate my time making a blacklist on who's able to handle my stories and who isn't. Not just companies, but people as well. One of my biggest fears... is having a fanbase that would end up being like Tolkein's. Also, I don't want my characters popping up in soulless crossovers like Fortnite, I don't want my characters being involved with multiverse shenanigans since I made it clear in my stories that fiction is fiction, I don't want adaptions like Harley Quinn or the Velma show, I just want people I know that're capable of telling a proper story.

I know companies change leadership and there will be new writers, but I'll be sure to make requirements to work on my stuff.

But that's IF I'm super popular. If stuff happens to me now then... welp... I think I'll be handing my stories to my collaborators and basically have them figure it out what to do. And then hopefully guide them or whatever since my spirit would still be around. Specifically my best friend. I'll just be guiding her through her dreams since we're working on a story together. She's really obsessed with that kind of stuff, so I know for a fact she'd listen.

........Although that's if I end up going to Heaven. If I end up in the other place (which I mean, I can't ignore THAT can I?) then.... well..... hope they can hear my screams :v

That got a little dark at the end. Have a picture of a puppy:

[JFeverFells]

The ending is in a book, hand written and tucked away. One person knows.

I hope to see it through from beginning to end, but if that doesn't happen I hope someone picks it up and finishes it, like my kids.

[Stargazer31]

If I knew that I was going to die soon, I would post a message online to inform my readers. Then, I would give the synopsis and character designs of future episodes to my boyfriend, in the hope that he would one day find a way to publish them.
That, or I'd reincarnate, and write a reboot. (Joke)

[Lady_T_Musings]

If I know it's coming, I would work on it for as long as I felt up to it, probably finishing the current chapter and then releasing the script/codex/notes to any interested and just make art about the world and my short stories while hanging with loved ones till the end. Burry me with my spare Tablet pencil, but keep the other since my work is mostly on the tablet and that will be needed to touchup loose ends.

If it's abrupt. My hubby knows almost all my logins and that he should read over the script and feel free to add what he wants since I love his input and really wouldn't mind him combing over it before releasing it on my socials bc he knows how I would have wanted everything to tie up, but can feel free to edit the adventure there haha. It may take a while though since in his grief I doubt he'd be able to tend to whatever online presence I have, but he'd get to it.

[UrMom]

I am hoping to finish my comic by then. If that all works (And I know when I'm gonna go.) I plan on handing over my stuff to my collective, they can do whatever with it, and there will probably be a small handful of people who have the books. It'll be some obscure thing only some webcomic readers and fans of dark stories will know of... maybe. Would be cool if it got some kind of cult following, but that probably won't happen. Either way I'm sure my comic, especially the physical books, will become WAY more valuable once I'm gone since people tend to value art/writing more once the creator dies. Lol

[MeltingCOREneo]

I've also thought about this and like others, have a plan. I have the entirety of my series (including the ending and a side story that takes place after the main series) outlined. If I pass before I can finish everything, my fiancé knows there's a thumb drive to send out. People can do what they wish with it - the art, writing, and music.

[Ordinaryaverageguy]

"Words left unsaid may have special meanings
Dust hidden pages fill the books left unread
One blank page left the poet crying
He failed to remember there's a price on his head
And the wheel keeps on turning
The wheel keeps on turning
The wheel keeps on turning
Turning around"

--Moody Blues, "Celtic Sonant"

[TroyVSTheWorld]

Y'know, this is the exact reason I started making comics. There wasn't a whole lot I was leaving behind if I died on any given day.
When all is said and done, dress to kill for oblivion.

[TheLemmaLlama]

Release everything into the wild! My stuff's public domain, so if anyone wanted to pick up where I left off (or do whatever else with what I've released, letting it permeate through works and culture into the future), that's the dream :] Probably won't happen, but I'd be too dead to care, so eh

[rumpenstiltzkin]

Something I honestly never thought about a lot.

I mean if I die, the things I do die with me. I have no delusions about my art/comic to grow big enough for anyone to really care or even notice that it would stop coming out

But even so, I dont think I would want another artist to keep working on my comic, that would feel weird and not be the same. Also why would someone else take over MY personal project, that probably gives them no pay and just takes time away from their own projects

But as @darthmongoose says above, if I knew I was that sick I might just make sure to write a proper synopsis of the ending and put it out there for closure I guess.