How would you like a webcomic to work?

[kevin_mchugh]

Hell All,

I am looking for feedback/input on the following question. Ideally, how should/would a web comic work or behave? How should you interact with it and vice versa?

I am thinking more from a readers perspective than a publisher/creators at the moment.

Any feedback I can get would be greatly apprecaited. Apologeis to any moderators if I have posted this in the wrong place.

Later

Kev

[Inkthinker]

How do I want a webcomic to work? Reliably.

Seriously, whatever your update schedule is, STICK TO IT.

I have followed webcomics with bad art and good writing, and webcomics with bad writing and good art, and on very rare occasion comics with good art AND writing. I've seen brilliant page design and I've seen crap. But in all cases, I've seen that the one, constant difference which defines success more than anything else is a steady, reliable update schedule.

Let it be weekly. Let it be twice-weekly. Let it be MWF, but whatever you do pick a schedule and STICK. TO. IT.

[amadarwin]

^what he said^
and at this point, I follow so many comics via rss feed, you'd need to make the rss comic full sized instead of a thumbnail. I don't click on thumbnails, so if I can't read it, I will unsubscribe, and the odds of me remembering to go to the site drop drastically after that. I only do that for the ones I REALLY like.

[CyberLord]

As a web-comic creator and reader I loved Sin Titulo, but I have not read it in over a year because I never know when there is something new to read.
I read "User Friendly" for YEARS until 2010 when and illness in J. D. "ILLiad" Frazier's family caused the strip to lag.
My solution to this, as a web-comics creator myself, is to produce a full chapter every year and publish every two weeks. By the time the first chapter has finished, the second chapter should be ready. With luck I will have a schedule that readers will find acceptable.
Also, I am writing the code for my web-page so that it will be easy to navigate. I don't want people to have to click on thumbnails to advance a page or go back one page. Because of this I am far deeper into javascript and php than I would have liked, but I do have a programming background so I am making progress.

Good Luck.

[ssss6eight1]

How do I want a webcomic to work? Reliably.

Seriously, whatever your update schedule is, STICK TO IT.

I have followed webcomics with bad art and good writing, and webcomics with bad writing and good art, and on very rare occasion comics with good art AND writing. I've seen brilliant page design and I've seen crap. But in all cases, I've seen that the one, constant difference which defines success more than anything else is a steady, reliable update schedule.

Let it be weekly. Let it be twice-weekly. Let it be MWF, but whatever you do pick a schedule and STICK. TO. IT.

This.

The only thing that really separates a successful webcomic from an unsuccessful one is whether or not your update schedule can be relied on by the readers... and, like, being a good comic, but whatever.


Also, personally, I'd rather read a black and white webcomic than one with shitty colors (because a comic book just has to be colored!).

[kevin_mchugh]

Thank you one and all gentlemen. Most appreciated.