Sign In
Close
EPIPHANY UPDATES: AN HONEST QUESTION TO THE GOOD PEOPLE OF WEASYL by irisjaycomics
Hi all! Quick question:
Every week (soon to be more than once every week, hopefully) I put a new page of my webcomic Epiphany up on my website, http://ianjay.net. To advertise it, I usually put a post up on my tumblr blog with one of the panels from the advertised page and a few words about its content. Like so: http://ianjay.tumblr.com/post/33414496119/epiphany-4-44-is-now-up-on-http-ianjay-net-this
On Tumblr this is fine and dandy, since most people interact with it through their dashboards and shit gets buried there fast enough to not be a nuisance, but I worry putting up those update notifications on here will pile up and quickly get annoying for you guys (not to mention dilute my gallery like crazy). On the flip side, I do want to keep watchers aware that I HAVE a webcomic, which was an ever-present struggle on FA and (ESPECIALLY) DA. What would you prefer I do?
EPIPHANY UPDATES: AN HONEST QUESTION TO THE GOOD PEOPLE OF WEASYL
Journal Information
- Views:
- 313
- Comments:
- 9
- Favorites:
- 0
- Rating:
- General
Comments
-
-
Some webcomics make their money through ads which get their value through pageviews; so for some comics they want to make sure people are getting their readers to go to their page rather than viewing them on other sites. Not sure if this necessarily applies to Ian's, but I get the feeling that it's usually better to get people to view one's work on one's own curated site than on a place like tumblr where your content can get scrambled and decontextualized.
-
Oh well I didn't say Tumblr, I said the updates on blogs make sense, but having little updates in a gallery seems redundant.
And that makes sense but I didn't think Ian had any advertising on his site? I'm not sure since I have adblock. :s-
Oh I was just speaking in generalities here. A lot of webcomics use ads as revenue through things like projectwonderful, and thus they want to centralize their readership. Ian could always pursue a different model, of course, but this is the more conventional one.
-
-
-
For comics with potentially over 100+ pages it's a nightmare to organize everything. For example I have a site on DA, Nabyn, FA, Tumblr- Keeping everything updated would be a pain in the ass.
Having the comics organized on one page encourages people to look at the website itself. This helps with store sales, ad revenue, and everyone is guaranteed to find everything in ONE place instead of a couple of places I may or may not keep organized/update because I'm lazy.
-
still don't see how making updates on all your sites is any harder than uploading the pages themselves but nevermind, sorry I said anything.
-
-
-
What I've noticed webcomic artists on FA doing is putting up an update pic, and then deleting the old update pic when they upload a new pic. Kind of like the 'streaming now!' pictures that get deleted once the stream is over.
-
I'm with Bob Todd here. When you post a new update pic, delete the older one maybe? And I'd see if you could make your default featured submission be a kinda poster for your comic, and it'd have a link to the first page so new readers could start right then and there.
-
-
You can always tag the images "Epiphany Update" or something so people can blacklist them if they get sick of looking at them. Also you should just keep them all in a single folder for organizational purposes.
Link
Doirn
To be honest I've always wondered why you don't post the comic on art sites. Like, the pages, not update pics. I think it would be cool here, you can put 'em in a folder n junk. I think having just pics of updates works on a blog, but I don't know if it works to have like a million update pics in a gallery?
Just my two cents. Posting it in multiple places may get you more exposure.