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Stay clear of Webcomics app In 2023, a lot of creators were burned when the platform wouldn't pay them or answer their emails. You can read more about what happened in this twitter thread. The platform used to hire salespeople and call them "editors." Their job was to mass-DM or mass-email cr…
You don’t have to be from Japan to make manga! I'm an American making English manga -- and not to brag -- but I make money from it, too. If you love manga and want to learn how it works, you're already on the right path. The best way to start is to study your favorite manga while paying attent…
Very much, yes. Once you know what to look for, then it becomes obvious how much hair stamps, hand stamps, action effect brushes, 3d clothing, 3D accessories, etc. is used in the official comics. Take a look around Acon3D, where professionals buy a lot of their assets, and you can see just how muc…
I wrote a blog post about it. For me, Tiktok used to be the best platform to catch new readers. My videos used to get 10K+ minimum views but now they barely reach 5K :') Reels do the best for me right now, while image posts are mostly misses. When I was posting my main series, my goal was to …
I've heard a lot of "MAIN-ga" and "annie-may" in the States, at least in Texas where I grew up 
the vowels were chewed and stressed like crazy.
I think you should lean into it. Your core audience is people who want stories with queer characters. And you have only one or two seconds to catch someone's attention in the sea of online content. So labeling your work with LGBTQ+ hashtags and showcasing the queer characters/moments will he…
so I won't know what the quality of the product is like, or how well the designs look once printed. The quality is pretty bad ngl. I gave RB a couple of tries but every time the quality was less than satisfactory so I don't use them anymore. Stickers were extremely grainy, and the shirt prints …
I think the cover potential is there to be even greater! First, I gotta say the logo is fancy but very hard to read with its many thin lines, kinda like death metal band logos. Second, the current visual hierarchy has me focusing on the big red guy in the back, but only him. Everyone else blends…
99% of the time why a series gets axed is because the story simply isn't good. And that means low ratings and low book sales, which means little revenue for the publisher. Even if the premise and some of the concepts may be interesting, if the execution sucks then the cool stuff can't save it. A…
I want to show to my parents that it can be more than a hobby and want to major in this area of field in University. Having been in this position myself, best of luck. That said, I'd start with publishing your writing/scripts online first as webnovels and such. Not only does that give you the…
I've also had my fanarts reposted by several Instagram reposter accounts, and they garnered way more attention than my own posts .
the majority are more comfortable with art as a simple stimulus that does not have an origin
To the general public, reposting accounts serve as an easy place to view…
Not mine but one of my favorite video game franchises starts with the protag dreaming + waking up
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The text size is very small on mobile, and often you have long paragraphs of words, making it doubly hard to read. Comparing the text size of your comic vs random ones from Tapas, from my phone: [image] That giant block of tiny text will chase away most mobile readers (and mobile users make up…
My biggest change was to make the story longer. I was going to end the story very short, but after getting feedback that I needed to delve deeper into my main character's backstory, I decided to make the story longer. And it gave me more room for angst! I greatly enjoy drawing and writing angst. …
I searched for my assistants on social media and creator-focused discord servers. It's good to have examples of what you expect, what programs to use, the timeline, etc. Something like this post: https://twitter.com/SnaiLords/status/1241128725477031937 For lineart you might consider having a tes…
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Speaking from a customer's standpoint: I buy black/white comics more frequently than color comics because b/w comics tend to be more affordable (ex: $6-ish per b/w book versus $12 per color book) and a comic having color isn't a selling point to me. BUT if a comic was originally in color, I'd w…
Yeahhh I know reddit isn't the best representation of readers, but a lot of people on webtoon subreddits are not pleased with how everything requires money now (at increasing prices too). Some might just pay, but some turn to illegal scanlation websites instead.
I haven't been publishing that long but I've noticed a decline in readership and traffic compared to when I started. Several WT Original creators have mentioned on their Twitter how their recent releases receive MUCH fewer views compared to their earlier works. Back when I started, new WT Original…
I started my main series without much planned because I was very new + it was meant to be a super short story. But now I have a document with the big outlines (that I don't end up following lol) and shorter episode documents that I try to write before I start the particular episode. The scripts …
I don't look at my comic numbers but oof -- when it comes to Patreon, it does sting and makes me wonder what I'm doing wrong even if I know most of the people leaving are probably due to financial reasons. Some people even leave mean exit survey comments but I try to avoid looking at the surveys …
Agree, such comments tend to come from a place of fun meme-y fandom behavior rather than from a place of malice. And not limited to queer media either. Example: Old men are sometimes lovingly referred to as "babygirl." [image] [image]
I pulled in a lot of new readers via IG and grew my account a lot as well. There's generally two types of posts: For attracting new readers: Narrative Panels: Post panels that act as a mini-story, showing potential readers a snippet of what the comic is about.One or two panels per carousel sli…
I personally prefer it when the lines aren't clean and perfect. I enjoy seeing and appreciating the artist's pen movements. This is also why I sometimes prefer the early works of professional manga artists. Even though their art might not be as polished as their later stuff, it can feel more vibra…
I hear Good Omens has something like enemies to lovers? in season 2. Personally though, shounen manga. Some creators get so focused on the relationship between a main character and his rival that the hetero romance gets put on the back burner ("He's a guy and she's a girl so you know.. they're i…
I myself have done full-length simultaneous projects by myself and again with assistants (full-length meaning each episode is 50-ish panels, due every week).
I definitely will not be doing it again I found out the hard way why artists can only take on one full-length comic series at a time.
It …
I prefer Iliya or Illiya — Elia seems like it should be read with an "eh" sound like Elliot or Elizabeth.
This tumblr blog has many great resources and answers: https://howtobeaconartist.tumblr.com/resources I myself have only sold online and for me, people like to buy mini prints (6x4 or 7x5 inch) more than big prints, probably due to the cost of shipping. I've heard this is different than physical a…
SAME I can appreciate experimental, huge-focus-on-the-art comics if they were one-shots but not as a long comic. Too many details, too many colors, too much focus on the art pull me away from not only the dialogue but also the surrounding panels -- at that point it's not a comic, it's just a bunch…
Twitter is a very community-driven place that takes a long time to build up a following & also doesn't react well if all you do is promote your own stuff -- not saying that's what OP does but it's a common mistake I see users make. I made most of my creator friends via Twitter, when we'd hop into…