How to Promote Your Web Comic (or art or video or anything really)

[@Wheat24673]

Your final point is probably the best one on there. It’s always best to make and publish webcomics because it’s something you enjoy doing. If you just do it to get popular, then you’re only leading yourself to disappointment. But if you primarily care about doing it for fun, then you’ll put more effort and thought into it which ups the quality and your motivation to keep going. Then when others see your comic, they’ll be able to see the fun and passion you put into it which will overall make it better.

[@KGBholland]

You remind me of Mark Crilley when I found him ages ago. Your work is professional; and I enjoy your videos. Keep up the good work.

[@thebradcolbow]

Thanks!

[@burntwaffles940]

Thank you so much! I want to start a comic series but I had no idea where to start and this helped!

[@Amelia_PC]

You gave some solid advice in here. Thank you, Brad. If I have a tip to add in your list? Since you asked, here we go. I'd add a hint: "never open a barbecue shop in a Vegan street" or "stay in your lane". It means, look out the genre and art style. Taking manga/cartoon/teen oriented style as example, a creator for mature readers (more like Vertigo - art and writing) have a hard time doing well in an online comic host like Webtoon,Tapas or Smackjeeves. I saw very good western comics with a fixed schedule doing poorly in those hosts. And we have an inverted thing for print comics. Don't try to push a manga style for a serious publisher. Usually, their answer is "no (f******g way)". XD

[@passmetheadobo]

I’ve been a Webtoon creator for about a year and I love that I was still able to learn so much from this video. Ty!!

[@frankporteriii6211]

So went back in time here, found this little gem. I was following a lot of the tips with out even knowing it. Now here I am after 25 weeks of Peapods rocking a fan base of like 20!!! Woot Woot That might be an exaggeration, but it still feels good to connect with people through this. A good portion of my “fans” (that sounds weird) are outside of the country.

[@fewofmyfavoritethings]

TBH, I just watched like your entire channel. Great content Brad!

[@DereknDerekEN]

I started animating a series called "Derek 'n' Derek" and I already finished the Trailer. ^_^

[@Abc-qs8ir]

the shadows and lighting and cartoon work are amazing in this drawing, :)

[@thebradcolbow]

Thanks, it's one of my favorites.

[@Abc-qs8ir]

:) :) it's completely genius, everything about that artwork, the perspective, landscape, sense of movement, all those colour tones, all those fine details, ... :) so cool :)

[@Abc-qs8ir]

ever draw any manga/ anime style cartoon work? :) :)

[@Abc-qs8ir]

keep up the good work Brad, you are one of the top artists on KZbin with just about 25,000 subscribers :)!

[@jonydafox5763]

Bout a month or so I created my Webtoons series "Flumpfer the Cat" And been sharing it around twitter, hope it gets noticed more

[@herbalsummer]

amazing advice, I'm currently just setting up my first web comic over on gumroad, but I'm just setting up all the behind the scenes stuff at the moment, the routine, the writing etc, Issue 1 is ready to go I'm just getting everything else ready first, fully aware no one will see it though, but this video has given me a couple of ideas of where to go and post about it..nice one dude :)

[@mushroomkit2928]

Woa can you really publish on gumroaf

[@mushroomkit2928]

Wow can u really publish on gumroad

[@jpunterminse9368]

I really love your style, it's similar to mine but you are much better. I am soaking up all kinds of new moves!

[@rattybabby]

I Love Your Videos Brad, Thank You!

[@Abc-qs8ir]

amazing twilight colours :)

[@barrycorbett1747]

Nice job. Excellent advice.

[@GeekedOutNeckbeard]

If we're strictly talking about promotion, then a good way would be to collect a mash-up of your work, if you re doing a series, maybe a volumes worth of material? Or prints? And become a vendor at some sorta convention. Like comiccon. Where I live Anime revolution you can be a vendor for $525. You will be spending loads of money at the start, so I suggest you save up a great deal before you take this venture, then try to expose yourself. Sell your stuff and put links to you social media that is relevant to your material. It will be a thing you will constantly have to do while juggling your regular schedule.

[@Prodmullefc]

Makoto Kazuki that seems to be what a lot of well known artists online have in common tbh. I have yet to try it because of the money issue but it really does seem to work wonders for the smaller artists I know who have sold at cons.

[@Delicakecomic]

I really needed this today! Thank you

[@vidhijain3964]

yeah i got u guys but still iam so confused about how to actually promote myself without any hold on social media. I recently started my web comic bit the thing is its neither romance nor in the typical manga style. i tried to develop my own style and instead of choosing a colorful pallette I picked grayscale palette. Now I fear is this a wrong decision. Nyone please help me out! Its called the ordinary saga its on line webtoon

[@MaxicoKingdom]

i love your videos

[@Sketchartbymarc1]

Great insight. Thanks!

[@YeahRightMCD]

Hmm... Nice. I like this a lot.

[@edjazz39]

Very encouraging!!

[@shortsinspirationalstories284]

Thank you

[@audzmncra]

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[@AlanStreet-hp4qi]

well... this is actually... comfortable... tanks...

[@HeShoeTooBig]

The consistency thing is 300% true. I make and sell stuff in Second Life and I've noticed that I get more visitors and more sell when I put out new stuff. If I go a month or so without adding new products, sales slow down.

[@thebradcolbow]

Yeah, totally. When I stopped doing the comic on a weekly basis by traffic started to really fall. Once you kinda step off your production people lose interest.

[@theDuke0999]

good talk man

[@edgames2358]

Could you review art rage?

[@sketchsawyer]

There really is no secret, huh? Do it well, and keep doing it. And post often.

[@bubbledubz846]

Hi I'm new to this and I would like to know what app do you use to draw comics or webtoons I would like to do my own but I don't know of any good apps

[@MEXUS.]

So close to 10,000 subs.

[@MEXUS.]

Did it.

[@thebradcolbow]

Yup yup. That's pretty darn cool.

[@charliebrown6724]

i thought you said yarn cool

[@internetcarly]

Hi you’re great 👉🌚👉

[@JoeEnglandShow]

Man, I could have used better promotion. Eighteen years of Zebra Girl, and it always struggled to find a really large audience. That was always an Achilles' heel of mine.

[@LolaBeM3]

👍🏾❤️

[@saurabhtripathi62]

nice draw n tip :}

[@bumblehoney7206]

Do you have an Instagram?

[@martindean5529]

Has anyone heard of a web comic called MAGE Magazine?

[@pooruanimations]

What about Instagram? In Instagram you can get more followers and it's much better than Facebook