At 9/14/23 01:26 AM, ChrisOssu wrote: I've been running a webcomic for three years now. Three years in, and it's hardly grown at all despite it regularly updating with only month or two month-long breaks in between. Even its current numbers are just a result of me outright paying a marketer to broadcast it to more people. Nothing about it on its own merits seems to be pushing people to actually spread the word about it existing. It just feels like the same small handful just show up every time I post a new page, and it's honestly starting to become discouraging. I want to keep the story going, but I also want to be acknowledged as having created something rather than it feeling like I hardly exist at all.
you know, its ok to realize something isnt working and admit failure. its how you grow and progress sometimes. If you see somebody doing something for years and its not working and its not making them happy, wouldnt you tell them to stop and do something else, approach it differently? I dont mean quitting art in your case but reapproaching it from a completely different direction. You're literally paying people to advertise your comic and its still not getting any traction, so... whats wrong with it? Have you asked people to critique it?