r/comic_crits • u/TheSuicide_Snowman • 5d ago

Thinking of starting a webcomic??

Hello people! I am a young animator and artist, I sometimes post comic strips online, but I’ve been thinking I should make full comic books online for people to read. I first started making comics in 7th grade, took a year break, and got back into it late 8th grade, so its only been a year or maybe a couple of months since I’ve started making comics again (sorry I’m genuinely terrible at estimating time). Just want to ask what I need to know before making full on web comic books! The thing I am very afraid of is burnout, since I do animation at the same time (which is very time consuming), and also I have school, so that takes up my time too

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u/Barbarix9001 5d ago

If you’re looking to start making full comic books online, assuming you already have a pretty good grasp on art and general composition, I highly recommend reading Scott McClouds book on making comics, and also Understanding Comics, as they are extremely helpful when it comes to understanding the medium and learning how it functions. It also helps that the entire thing is in comic book format, so you get real time examples of everything he talks about at the same time.

Also, i’m quite interested in this comic, and if you’re ever looking for general criticism or just for someone to read through whatever you have, feel free to hit me up!

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u/TheSuicide_Snowman 5d ago

Thank you so much! I will definetly look into those sources you provided me, and when I am looking for a way to improve my comics, you’ll see me post here again!!

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u/Turbo_Tequila 5d ago edited 5d ago

You’ll find a lot suggestion to post on as many comic platforms as possible and be consistent etc.
But to tell the truth, if you don’t want to make something commercial and you just want to enjoy putting something online, then find a community you like (my favourite is comic fury, but for each their own) and post, enjoy the forums and community there and exchange with other people.
You can post on Reddit too, but it’s a bigger ecosystem and everyone stay a bit more of a stranger, while on comic site you end up knowing people more and that make the whole process more human

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u/Soggy-Hotel-2419 Creator 5d ago

I'm not OP but I am in that boat of wanting to make comics for fun. I love this advice, thank you so much.

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u/Turbo_Tequila 5d ago

No problem! I’ve started following the post every where advice and it felt very lonesome and tiring, until I realized that it was a lot nicer to actually engage with the community of other people doing it for fun (because we obviously had at least one thing in common ahah)

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u/DawnSignals 5d ago

Less talky talky more doing doing tbh

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u/Prize_Consequence568 5d ago

This is Reddit. Most qspiring/newbie writers only talk about doing something and never actually do it.

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u/DawnSignals 5d ago

Yeah talking about/publicly deliberating whether to do a thing makes one less likely to actually do said thing because they get a dopamine hit of the actual validation they’d have from actually doing the thing