When making a traditional-format comic, how do episodes work?

@Rhonder Rhonder
Fri, 19 Mar 2021 19:18:34 +0000

@Rhonder wrote:

ninjashira:

The one thing to watch out for with the "one page at a time" approach is to make sure that each page is worth it. If you have too many nothing filler pages in a row, people will feel dissatisfied with the reading experience. Whereas if you have five pages in a row with nothing happening, but are sandwiched between four episodes of cool things happening, and upload it all in one episode, then readers will barely notice that nothing happened in five of those pages.

If I ever find myself scheduling a page that I feel "isn't worth it," (which has only happened twice in over 150+ pages so far), then I'll upload two in one episode.

Definitely agree on this point! I took the same approach with the page-a-week comic I mentioned in my initial reply- usually updates would be 1 page but there were a few cases where I felt like a page was a little underwhelming standalone and would typically pair it up to bridge the gap a little. Similarly, there were a few full-page panels that I would typically pair up despite being cool/exciting because... well, they're just a single panel