See, this is the thing that constantly frustrates me about comics like yours. I like them so much and for such good reasons, they are so genuinely good, but people have never heard of them or seen them, and unfortunately, I don't have the kind of readership to make a lot of difference to that.
But I will keep trying. And a good opportunity is coming up wink wink did you get my emails??
I love webcomics. I love how guest comics can BREAK THE FORMAT so hard because almost everybody's layout is just based on a maximum width. Yes, I got your email. REE HEE HEE
Well, it's weird. You look at one of the most popular webcomics, like say Questionable Content. It's got like 250k daily readers.
That's tiny. That's a college-radio-beloved indie band. The webcomics audience is also really fragmented, you get a lot of non-overlapping readerships in different chunks*. Name Removed has about a hundred, maybe a hundred and fifty regular readers. Max's Kansas City regulars circa 1966. I like to imagine that my comic partly inspired you to start yours? I don't know if that's at all true but I'd honestly rather THAT happen more often than get more readers myself.
* The closest analogue is actually porn site advertising networks. Last time I looked into it (don't ask) there were about 4 major "loops" of gallery-hosting and ad-trading networks that mutually promoted in their loops with little to no interaction between the loops
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Yeah, so I wonder about, like, Achewood. Onstad is doing really well for himself and book deals and everything but it's like he's completely cut off from the Scene however you want to cut it. Remember when he was doing and receiving guest comics? Far be it from me - effectively a hobbyist - to call "sell-out" but...
But maybe the answer really is weird small dedicated audiences like clay shirkey says. At least for experimental (?) webcomics, a niche of webcomics, a niche of comics, a niche medium.
But there's something bigger here, something I'm not expressing properly. I need to think about this more.
Man, so jealous. If I hadn't been on a plane, I would have loved to hang out there given that you met most of the people I would have wanted to see. I did watch a documentary featuring Cory Doctorow on the plane. He was very Cory Doctorow. Now I'm just rambling to keep myself awake on this plane.
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See, this is the thing that constantly frustrates me about comics like yours. I like them so much and for such good reasons, they are so genuinely good, but people have never heard of them or seen them, and unfortunately, I don't have the kind of readership to make a lot of difference to that.
But I will keep trying. And a good opportunity is coming up wink wink did you get my emails??
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Well, it's weird. You look at one of the most popular webcomics, like say Questionable Content. It's got like 250k daily readers.
That's tiny. That's a college-radio-beloved indie band. The webcomics audience is also really fragmented, you get a lot of non-overlapping readerships in different chunks*. Name Removed has about a hundred, maybe a hundred and fifty regular readers. Max's Kansas City regulars circa 1966. I like to imagine that my comic partly inspired you to start yours? I don't know if that's at all true but I'd honestly rather THAT happen more often than get more readers myself.
* The closest analogue is actually porn site advertising networks. Last time I looked into it (don't ask) there were about 4 major "loops" of gallery-hosting and ad-trading networks that mutually promoted in their loops with little to no interaction between the loops ( ... )
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But maybe the answer really is weird small dedicated audiences like clay shirkey says. At least for experimental (?) webcomics, a niche of webcomics, a niche of comics, a niche medium.
But there's something bigger here, something I'm not expressing properly. I need to think about this more.
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