How to promote your comics/webcomics?
2mo
Yashwardhan Singh
I recently created a webpage to dump my comics but no one is reading it because no one knows it exists. After spending all the time drawing it I suddenly come to the realization that I have no idea how I am going to promote it myself.
I have been trying to promote it on social media but I have only meet frustration so far. Partially because I am probably doing it wrong, and partially because social media platforms in itself sucks. As someone who has been off social media for many years, I am having a very hard time dealing with it.
I am currently at a complete loss as to how to promote my comics.
If you post a link here I’ll check it out.
You could try putting it up on platforms like Webtoon or GlobalComix, since people are already on those platforms browsing comics.
Another idea is to try to find a comics influencer on YouTube or something and maybe see if you can hire them to do a promotional spot for you?
I agree, on social media being a pretty tough way to get the signal out. You may need to do a bit of advertising.
Thanks for replying, and I actually made another topic asking for feedback in this forum where I posted the links,
https://www.proko.com/community/topics/looking-for-some-feedback-on-my-comics
And thanks for your suggestion, but I am too broke to run full on promotion campaigns. I am planning to participate in small conventions next year and see how things go from there. I guess I'll just have to keep at it and work it out slowly.
Try getting an artist table at a convention. Not only will you meet other artists but people may be interested in your work and buy/read it. Other more experienced artists may know more about this. I personally have only been making comics for a year so I’m not completely sure. So…Excelsior (I guess…?).
I have actually been researching conventions in my country for the past week so this was already on my mind. I am already planning a small 8-16 page comic booklet that I could print a few copies of in order to take to small cons. Still, thanks a lot for your suggestion.
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1mo
Hey! Nice work on making a page for your comics, that's a great achievement! Social media can be so great for promoting your work, but at the same time a fickle thing. A lot of the advice you'll hear is about posting consistently, which is pretty true, since the algorithms for many social medias like that, and will push your posts more. Figuring out the best times to post can help too, and I'd recommend studying the social media habits of other artists that are making similar work to yourself. How often do they post, what format are they using, which of their posts are the most successful? But it's also important to remember that it's not all about numbers. Once you find your rhythm, you'll find and establish your audience, and be able to grow it from that dedicated base.
I'm gonna link an episode of the Draftsmen Podcast where they talk all about social media, it may give you some insight on how you want to approach it yourself for your own work! Good luck and I wish you well!
https://www.proko.com/course-lesson/the-dos-and-donts-of-social-media-for-artists-draftsmen-s2e25
Hey Ben, thanks so much for replying. I have watched the podcast episode before and Stan gives some really practical advice like the 'Jab, Jab, Punch" rule, but I still struggle to implement it because I am not really a social media guy. And this episode is quite old and social platforms have changed a lot in recent years. Specifically the automated moderation now used across all platforms which randomly labels and shadowbans small amounts adding extra layers of headache.
After all, just like you said I might have to study the platforms itself to better understand what works. I'll will try to follow along and see how can I adapt my work specifically for social media. Thanks for your advice.
