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

@Lady_T_Musings Lady T Musings
Fri, 19 Mar 2021 20:26:40 +0000

@Lady_T_Musings wrote:

It doesn't sit right seeing my pages being called episodes either, as episodes are more geared to mobile layout works and gag-a-day type comics in my head and I'm doing a long-form one page at a time haha. I wish I could spend all my time making comics, but that just isn't feasible bc a Lady needs her benefits that her day job provides XD. So actually making weekly episodes isn't feasible to me.

It is what it is though. I work in page format over scroll too bc that's what I personally like and I want to print someday, but I do think about mobile so I try hard to not crowed my pages and tested the readability of my fonts with a few people and across multiple devices. I update once a week and have since November of 2020. I enjoy getting to see folks thoughts on my work as it comes out weekly and I'm dedicated to seeing my comic through so long as I live and have use of my right hand, but unless something happens that gives me more time to work on my comic (without major stress like a pandemic weighing me down) this will be how I tackle my series into the future and I'm cool with that as I know my purpose for creating my comic and have a finish line planned.

I could go to spaced-out updates to like once or twice a month, but as I draw pretty large and take up all the space, I don't see the trade-off being worth it as my page rate wouldn't increase and engagement would probably take a hit as it wouldn't be featured as fresh as much anymore.

I do think it's mad crazy smart to get a buffer going though. I didn't start posting until my first chapter was completed bc I'm not the fastest either, but I am defiantly working on was to improve my speed even more. Some things I did to improve my page-making time were, switched to using a tablet over pc for mobility, simplified my coloring style, got all my character sheets printed and in an easy-to-reach place. figured out all my design stuff ahead of time like logos, brands, and architecture (not all of it but most building stuff as this is my weakest point and takes me the longest to draw).

Something I'm working on to increase speed is making cleaner thumbnails so I can start drawing over them more neatly and not freaking out about them being perfect and going over my lines redrawing and cleaning up 2-4 extra times. @_@

Something I may do once I've gotten a few chapters done of my comic has condensed the updates to have each episode be like 6-8pgs, but I am not there yet.

Your comic looks lovely and I hope you find a solution that works for you, but I wouldn't split hairs about how Tapas labels your updates and would focus on pacing your story with the natural beats that work for what you are trying to achieve over trying to change it to fit what an episode should be, unless you want to reformat your story to fit in a more episodic fashion, then hey, do you CMYKat . That's my 2 cents.