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Most stories I write have multiple protagonists, all of which with switch from male and female characters, while the stories I've done were it's more focused on a single 'main' character usually fluctuate between male and female characters. HOWEVER when it comes to translating these novels into webcomics none of my stories with female protagonists (not counting the multiple protagonists) have not been in high demand. (I put most of my stories through trusted friends / family first before trying to go through the trouble of converting them, to see if they will stand a chance of catching on)

I was for a while working to have a series go through, and it was one of the ones that happened to have a female protagonist, but because of my health I couldn't stress myself by starting up another comic. So was looking for artists to assist me. I had it completely plotted out, with most of the dialog written out, and I had many of the characters design and reference sheets ready to go. I got a good amount of artists excited about the project and wanting to work on it so I had a team ready, but I am not very good at bossing people around... and when one artists slacks the whole project would end up getting put on hold, constantly, to the point where it looked like it just wasn't going to happen, so it was canceled. I still would like to work on this project, not sure if I'll look into trying the team thing again though, I'll probably just end up working on it myself, but that of course is all dependent on if I can find the time. At the very least I can release it as script or visual novel once that side of tapastic is added.

Although they have not all come to be seen here on Tap yet IN my comic Talesfromswipecity2 I have four female Protagonist who are a group of friends, although they kind split into two groups most stories.
Cassie: the older posher of the group, who's always finding herself in trouble.
Roz: the younger new kid who's always finding trouble to get Cassie into.
Jane: Nice on the inside, tough on the outside and kinda messed up about her mom and dad's break up
Zoe: The rock star wannabe who can't defend herself for toffee, so always in need of help.

These are the main representatives of the family's featured and thought them more domestic drama stories can be written. I somehow seem to be very good at writing mother daughter dust ups they always make good scenes.

While my main comic Fallacy3 doesn't have a female as a protagonist, I do have bunch of women in roles that would make them deuteragonists / tritagonists depending on how you want to look at it. They have their own plot line running parallel to the "main story". Or rather, their plot line is integral part of the main story which couldn't happen without it. While the first arc doesn't focus too much on them, they are still essential to it and the further the story goes, the bigger their screen time will be. I think that they will actually get almost ½ of all the screen time in time if the planned pacing doesn't change.

Then there is also a one shot comic I'm publishing Sea Love2 which has female protagonists.

I'm also developing another long form comic which will have a female protagonist along with several side characters but that one won't see the light of day for months yet.

I think I like having a lot of female characters because I'm slightly fed up with the pattern of 4 men, 1 woman so I try to make my casts very balanced. A lot of time my stories don't have elements that would dictate that character has to be certain gender for the plot to work, so I can freely decide about this. Sometimes characters demand to be male or female. But then again, a lot of time I can switch them around easily because their personalities aren't tethered to it. So if I notice there's an imbalance of genders, it's easy to fix into something that will make me happy. More women in all sorts of roles is always good in entertainment. :3

actually i havent any human characters in my comics (that s quite an owngoal but... well... that's it)(i would draw a female but there s no space for humans in GRUNK :\

btw, my next 2 comic (im planning them right now)(so this mean i ll work in the next future), will own a female main character each. 1 ll be in another absurd story, the other 1 in a complicated fantasy world...
why a female? well, in the first i need a character strong in a crazy world, some1 who can fit a role "wrong when right", while in the 2nd story i need a "human" female like i image (so, not a sexy bomb super heroine or a crazy one)

My comic Final Light3 have a female as protagonist (I'm also a female), even though in the latest episodes she got a little aside by the other characters, it's just because she's insecure about what's going on and soon she'll get gain the power as a lead xD

My comic Serenade Song5 has two female protagonists . As for why? Female characters have always been more interesting to me. Not to say male characters aren't or can't be interesting, just not as much for me.

Shorter version: Girl's are cool.

Well my comic IMAGICA=verse5 is about magic girls so GIRLS take the CENTER STAGE!

As a nerdy guy who have zero experiences with girls I am forced to consult my lady friends on how does a girl react to a given situation :/

Also too many badass Male heroes, time to make a badass Female hero!!

Hey woah I really like your comic premise, paneling, art and style! :'D Consider a new subscriber!

My webcomic Cosmic Fish3 has a female protagonist though she's often been confused for a boy at times by readers and characters alike. Although she's more androgynous than female, with preferred female pronouns. Much like the second protagonist, Bells, who is pretty much a living rock with "pigtails". But hey, the series (although just starting out) is meant to focus on their friendship.

As to the why, the characters just worked. I didn't consider the gender at the time. I had the characters, liked the chemistry. My characters in my comics tend to be preeeetty balanced, so there's that too.

My comic is told mostly from the PoV of a male character, but the actual protagonist is female (in a sort of "lemme tell you about this person I know" kind of narrative). You could argue that they share the role of protagonists, but the story is about who she is and how she grows and overcomes adversity as a person, not so much for the narrator. Actually, the majority of the cast is female.

I'm also planning another comic in the same universe, which will be a horror comic that follows a female protagonist as she tries to save her twin sister from the grips of an evil alien monstrosity. This comic won't be started until an appropriate time in the plot of the current comic arises.

I'm male, and I seem to write an even mix of male and female protagonist stories, but the ones I write with female protagonists tend to have more developed and complex characters. Not really sure why.

Runewriters3 has a female protagonist! Tareth is a sheltered deaf girl who tries to help her best friend with #shapeshifterproblems and somehow gets dragged along on an absurd magical quest. I didn't make a conscious decision to have a lady as the main characer, so I can't really say why -- Tareth just sort of sprang fully formed from my forehead, and I'm still just guessing what the unconscious inspiration for her was. xD

I'm a lady, but I tend to have way more guy characters than lady characters -- I think a lot of us who were raised on fantasy do, just because it's what we're used to seeing! I have a lot of respect for the people who make an effort to put more lady characters out there to counteract that; they've inspired me to make more of an effort in my future comics, too! :>

Just curious... did you get this idea from an online conversation you had? Because I talked with someone over comments a while back (it may have even been here on Tapastic) about how someone needs to make a story about someone who finds a possessed guitar and becomes a rock star. The other person said they wanted to make it, so I've kind of been waiting to see if it would ever happen.
Was that you? Or is this just a coincidence?

Sorry for random.

As for your topic... my fantasy comic, Outcast Kingdom4, has four main protagonists-- two are female, two are male (though one of the male heroes almost shouldn't even count when it comes to gender ratio, but I won't say because I like it to be kind of a surprise (even though it's on the second page)). One is a thin, delicate little sorceress who will instantly become everyone's best friend. The other is a badass warrior woman and the team leader-- she can be a bit of a jerk sometimes, but she really does care about her friends.

I guess I gave the group an even gender ratio to prevent the whole "bunch of men with one token female" sort of thing. Plus I just really liked the personalities I had written for them, and they fit better this way than if they had been men.

Hey @nickysoh! Welcome to Tapastic!! :3

I'm C, and I'm 1/3rd of the team that creates a comic called Kamikaze1.

We host our own website2 too, as well as mirroring here on Tapastic. It's a scifi, cyberpunk series with a lot of action and plenty of heart. Our lead character Markesha sprung from my husbands head way back in college. He's always had amazing women around him from his powerful mom, super smart sister, and firecracker of a grandmother, not to mention a whole slew of aunts who kick ass and take names on a regular basis.

While we were in college the world seemed to be really messed up. The simple act of going to college, having a job, supporting yourself and any loved ones you might have...man, it just felt like you had to be a superhero just to get through the day. Our story started out as our lead being a girl from a low income family that took on a scholarship in order to pay for school. The original idea was that the scholarship she landed only worked if she became the worlds first superhero WHILE attending classes passing tests etc.

Over a few years we just tossed the idea back and forth between car rides. It wasn't anything serious until the story started morphing on it's own. We kept trying to shove it in this comedy direction and it kept falling apart. Once we started playing with the idea of Kamikaze being more of a serious thing, then suddenly it just started falling into place.

We love having Markesha as our lead, and better yet, so many others love her too. It's a pretty normal thing for people to stop dead in their tracks when they see our sign. On multiple occassions we've have women come up to us, nearly crying and say, "Oh my god, she looks like me." And that's when I turn into a blubbering ball of tears. >.>;;

Ultimately I think the reason we kept Markesha as she is, is because Kamikaze wouldn't be what it is without her. However, we do a little tongue-in-cheek bit at the beginning of the story with the idea of what would happen should our story ever get sidelined into the 'typical' action hero lead. It...doesn't end well. wink

Hello Nickysoh and welcome to tapastic! hope you will enjoy the trip smile I'm going to check out your story right now!

As for the question, Echo2 got a female protagonist. I don't have a "preference" for a man or a woman as a MC, it just happens to be a woman because... why not? Plus for medieval fantasy, a young person is almsot always a boy. I wanted to use a girl for once. A girl that will not have all the relationship drama I can see everywhere.
Well, she can love, but it won't be the first purpose. Not all the guys she meets are here to be her maybe-future boyfriend.

And I wanted "strong" female character. Because it lacks of strong characters that aren't Korra.

Hey, I really like what I've read of your comic thus far!

Stray Cats2 has a female protagonist (as well as a male one), which makes sense for me because I'm a woman... PLUS a lot of the story deals with the main character not being taken seriously (as a threat) because she is female, so yeah, it's sort of essential to the way the story is going to play out.

The premise of your comic sounds interesting and something readers of all ages would be interested in. As a male it doesn't really matter what gender the protagonist is as long as they are interesting and grow as a person throughout their story.

My main comic series which is an action based has a male protagonist but, my drama comic has a female protagonist. The comic is called In The Midst1. There are a few reasons why I made her a girl. First, this comic seems like a Josei (comic for older female readers) especially with its very dark tone.I have been itching to write the protagonist's character type (Dandere) for quite a while.Other then those two reasons I can't really comic up with another reason why the protagonist is a female.

I chose a protagonist with the lady parts cause I love drawing long hair and even longer legs.

Just kidding, it was for the shoes.

My comic Lalita at the end of the universe 2 consists of Lalita as the main character. Along side a large cast of other female characters.

All my comics have female protagonists. I think it's because i want to make characters that i wished i had growing up.

I have three main casts for The Angel with Black Wings: 2 females and 1 boy. The story is told through the boy's perspective but the lead character is of course the titular character.

As for the reason why well, (1) I love drawing pretty females (even though I'm a girl). (2) I love creating strong female characters. Plus it feels weird to have a guy Angel as the lead character and put him through any emotional struggles I could think of.

Well first off, thanks for all the participation! Just got back home from a cancelled flight and so many things to do. Took some time to read through everyone's post and took a look at all your webcomics.

@justifiableconcepts Hi! Wonderful first reply! I just subscribed to your webcomic. I really dig the unique art style you have. Can't put my finger on it. It has a rough sketchy outline yet very cell-shaded at the same time with the tones. The art is very catchy, I'm interested to see if you're drawing and male character or even adults and how you treat them in this style. You mention the idea of "soft" side in a female and toughness in them. I completely AGREE with you! That was something I wanted to explore too in my comic.

@keii4ii Hey Keii4ii! We meet again. Yeah I actually created a Tapastic webcomic here but somehow the link was messed up the first time. Now its working already! What other forums are you in? I feel that Tapastic and CF are the more active forums. Don't you think?

@demthorshie hi! I just went over to look at your webcomic on Tapastic. I thought it was going to be a silent comic! lolx. Yeah I definitely understand what you mean. Now that I'm writing a female protagonist webcomic, its not exactly easy and during scripting, I have to keep pondering what I would do if I'm a female in her situation with her character and also, as a teen. But its fun, love the challenge.

@toadsteroven Well I've never read a Aspie perspective comic before. Seems like you're the best subject matter and I believe you will have your own audience and fanbase pretty soon!

@Aetherwing Wow I like the art. The mood in the pages are great too. Great coloring. 4 chapters since September? Very consistent webcomic you have there and the male characters are charming too. Went to your webcomic site and saw that you update twice a week. Wow, wish I can do that haha. That's my eventual goal in end Feb. Great stuff.

@AnnaLandin Wow look at your art. The people in Tapastic are really good lolx. Also another twice weekly update webcomic. I must step up my game. I visited both Wishlight and Grassblade. I must say out of the two I'm very hooked on to Wishlight. The pacing, mood and story is just mesmerizing. Withiin the ifrst 10 pages I'm already hook and very interested to find out what happen. The expressions are priceless in the panels. I can't imagine what it feels like to have 2.2k of subscribers in your main series. Wow!

@starfestival I must say you caught me off guard with your webcomic. especially a music player panel followed by a naked man. hehhehhe

@lizm Your webcomic is so cute!

I agree too. I think it doesn't matter (most of the time) what the protagonist gender is though it does affect a story depending on what the creator wants to portray. Mine happened to be the case and I specifically needed a female lead.

@kurapikasuki

So you write stories that are group focused? Like the avengers or sailor moon with multiple protagonist? Really keen to see your webcomic on Tapastic.

@aronthemason Hmmm interesting webcomic you have there. Not the kind of genre that I read frequently, especially with the NSFW content and violence genre. The dialog seems very fluid and your characters are very well drawn I would say. I would say all 4 of your female characters are very character driven.