Thread "I Think We've All Been Here" in forum "Comic Talk and General Discussion *"

Posted at 9:04AM, Apr. 16, 2022

A comic artist after spending months, evenings and weekends, on a book only to have no one seem to give a shit about it.

(Sponsored by a "talk me off this ledge" session of creators this morning.)

Posted at 12:04AM, Apr. 18, 2022

Fuck it. Drive on.

When you've done something that no one thought you were capable of sometimes you can drive on regardless. Jump?

Nah, just keep going and doing even if I'm only pleasing myself. The rest of the world might catch up to me or not, but I blazed a trail.

Posted at 5:04AM, Apr. 18, 2022

I spend months and months on a single page XD
I get comments because I have friends on the site and my status gives me a teeny bit of a profile, and those are lovely. I treasure them all!

But the page DOES take months… doing it you start to think that the world is holding its breath for your work, and at the completion of the page you'll get an Oscar, a new car and a prize of $1500… None of which ever happen.
You don't really get rewards that equal the work you put in :(

BUT, the more stuff you do the more of a creative treasure you build up, so bugger the lack of recognition, just focus on building your opus man! Maybe you can spin it into something bigger like a screenplay or whatever. The work is the reward.

Posted at 5:04AM, Apr. 18, 2022

Add a banner/link in your signature, post more, update your thread in Meet, Greet, Show and Sell, jump up and down and wave more, here and everywhere else that'll have you.

Posted at 12:04AM, Apr. 20, 2022

And then you get used to wallowing in unread misery and suddenly your comic jumps from a hundred to seven hundred page views. Total mystery. Poof! Here are the page views you deserve but then they're gone and you're like WTF!

Posted at 5:04PM, Apr. 21, 2022

Yeah, I feel it. Especially after the update from Tapas today revealing the individual episode view counts have been inflated and have since been adjusted. The lack of engagement can feel even worse after something like that.

Posted at 5:04AM, Apr. 23, 2022

hpkomic wrote:
Yeah, I feel it. Especially after the update from Tapas today revealing the individual episode view counts have been inflated and have since been adjusted. The lack of engagement can feel even worse after something like that.

Sadly a problem as old as the internet. It's a trap you have to learn to avoid early on when you run your own site. If you take analytics reports at face value, you think your site is hoppin'. Only later when someone explains that it's the unique visitors and not pageviews do you start to see the sobering reality.