Would you want people that know you irl to find your comic online?

[Kann]

I wish some of my irl friends would actually read it... XD

As for family... Not really? My comic has some topics where I don't know how comfortable my family is with them and I'd rather avoid weird questions from relatives. XD I only told my dad that I have a comic but he wasn't that much interested since it's in a language he doesn't understand very much.

[OliviaMerteli]

No. I'm not statisfied with what I'm doing right now with comics to show them irl.
If I progress sufficiently then maybe I'll share some next works.

(edit: I don't really care about what they would think about topics treated on my works, most of my family are avid readers who read about everything on every kind of medium )

[Kat]

When I was younger I worried about that. I don't do NSFW content, but sharing my art and stories with people I actually know seemed really vulnerable and frightening.

Now people are like, "How are you?" and I'm all, "Good! I'm working on a comic, want to see what I have so far?"

So yeah, I'm pretty much delighted when people I know want to check out my work. Sometimes they like it and sometimes they're not that into it, but I'm fine with that.

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[Carossmo]

That's awesome hahaha

[revisionstudios]

I think that's normal, don't feel bad about that! Even many of my best friends don't read my comic because it's not to their tastes, and that's okay! As long as they're still supportive of you, that's what matters.

[vothnthorvaldson]

My family knows but does not read it. It's mostly because I told them it would be better to wait until there is more to read.

My spouse is supposed to read it and correct the English but time is often short.

Some of my friends from my country of birth know, but technically they are not so much IRL friends anymore.

IRL I told no one because I still have difficulties to understand what is socially okay or not, still very much struggling with cultural differences. I don't want to add unnecessary issues, although it's a bit a shame because there are some people I would like to show my comic to. Maybe later.

[charliesackett]

People I know know that I do it, but they don't read it. I try and discourage it if I have to but usually people don't bother trying to read it. The only one who ever pressed the issue any further was my boyfriend.
It's just a weird, vulnerable thing for me. I always liken it to a part at the beginning of 'The Portrait of Dorian Gray' where Basil says he put too much of himself in his painting.

[baasinsimple]

My friends know about it but don't see what I post. Which is a relief. All they know is "Oh yeah, he draws a gory comic about muscular men beating the shit out of each other" but I like to experiment with different kinds of character designs. Making a male character have a flamboyant design but extremely manly, like Abbacchio from JoJo or Ouki from Kingdom, and all they would do is look at the surface level of the character designs and what not. It'd be rather annoying.

[kimketli]

Hehehe. They have the chance to know about it. I shared it on my facebook... once!
And Also they can see when I share something in public groups...
I thought it will be a big surprise for many people around me, but no. Most of people just don't care. :DDD
Sometimes my mom, grandma and great-grandma re-share my stuff. (yeah, I have great-grandma, and she is on the web) I'm really grateful they participate in it. :>

[Rhonder]

I'm pretty open about my comic: i share all of my update posts and whatnot to my personal Facebook, so most of my irl friends/family have the potential to know that I draw a comic, if they pay attention every Sunday. Not many actually read though. 2 of my closest friends irl subbed to my comic (and infrequently read), and I don't know of anyone beyond them xD (edit: I have quite a few more friends who follow my art social media pages and like my artwork that way, as opposed to sitting down and actually reading my comic, that is)

[ratique]

Friends would usually know, but I tried not bringing it up at work for a looong time.

... That is, until one day, I was traveling for work with 3 colleagues, all my senior, some of them my managers and one of them says: "Oh, You're working on a comic, aren't you! Tell us all about it!"

I wish I could have disappeared, but unfortunately it was a 3 hour car ride and I had nowhere to go XD I still have no idea who originally spilled the beans.

[gh0stcr33p]

nope, I wouldn't. but it seems that more people I know in person, (usually older people or people I don't even know that go to my school) find my instagram and I honestly don't like it. I mean, I try to stay as anonymous as possible (despite some mistakes I've made in the past when it comes to anonymity...) with the older people who find me, they usually either find out because I showed them something I made online and then they follow me for some reason. I just don't want them to see the side of me that they don't know me as. I mean, I just don't want my online self being associated with my irl self anymore. as for the people from school... I have absolutely no idea how they even find me, and a lot of them don't even know who I am. as for my comic, the only people I know who follow it are ones that I don't mind, such as my mom, a friend and then a girl that I know and am okay with.

[JeanGuillet]

some my friends & family pretended for a long time that they had no interest...but then one by one they cracked and admitted they were reading things every single week and had been for years. smh. thanks to the irl guys who supported me from the beginning though, it took bravery.

[Eveeka]

Nope nope nope and ...nope

[Zushi]

No. Never.
While I wish I can share my comic in real life as it does discuss a lot of very common important issues in mental health especially in regards how it effects me as a student, I simply cannot risk the chance of tarnishing my image. I can try to attempt to say it's based off the experience of a friend/someone I know but the way I write the emotions are what my readers describe as "being raw and honest that only be from a person who has experienced such a thing " could write.

Yes unfortunately mental illness is still seen as a huge No-No where I live despite the increase in awareness (but it's only skin deep which is why it kinda never felt meaningful to me) and it's a huge taboo in academia, especially in the professional medical world to be seen with a mental illness. It can literally affect your acceptance and standing to a school or future job application since any indication of mental illness usually equates to an automatic rejection due to liability reasons as well as other outdated views. Hell, I even had some teachers and professors who said until I won't get anywhere in life with a mental illness since it's just slacking off/being crazy and even my psychiatrist says unfortunately I have to keep it a secret unless I want to be discriminated with this. It sucks since my mental illness like any chronic illness has taken a huge toll on my life being hospitalized multiple times and going through various different treatments but I can't use it to explain why I'm struggling more than usual because it's seen as sorry excuse for "a lack of self discipline and character".
Only my 2 closest friends in real life know my comic the rest are just strangers though I do notice some do go to my university

[Azifri]

I'm very open about my comic and other art stuff, and usually have links and images posted around on social media. It's hilarious when people I don't associate with art sometimes make comments about it out of the blue, like when my academic advisor asked if I had submitted more paintings to the campus art magazine (I didn't even know he looked at that magazine), or when a former coworker asked if the main character of my comic was me (yes, she kinda is).
So yeah, I think many people I know in real life know about my comic and other artsy stuff, but only few read it

[punkarsenic]

im generally atrocious at promoting my comic in any sphere, but irl i feel like theres a level of trust &/ respect before i show ppl my comic. like, my teachers all know it exists bc I Want Approval and my friends vaguely know it exists, but i never wanna push it on friends at all bc i dont want them to sub just to be nice. when i show ppl my comic its like when i ask ppl to watch my favourite tv show or listen to my favourite album - its sharing an important part of myself, and is kind of a way i show respect and trust.

i have a few closer / older friends who do read my comic on-and-off, and my girlfriend sends me memes about it now and then, which is really great lol

[Shanny8]

It wouldnt bother me- but it would bother if they ran up on me asking me questions about stuff that I'm not ready to reveal yet...

[Strontium]

In college I was more hesitant to tell people because there were people in college I didn't like and didn't want them to have a way to follow me past graduation XC but now I share it with potential jobs and with my peers. It's a good place to demonstrate my work ethic and dedication!