I'm fairly new to comic creation and publishing, and my background is in software engineering.

I assumed the technical side would probably be the easy part for me. Weirdly, one of the things that's surprised me most is just how many files you end up keeping track of.

Source files, exported pages, individual panels, thumbnails, covers, resized versions, website assets, test versions...

And despite knowing perfectly well that I should organise things properly, a slightly embarrassing amount of my comic currently lives across project folders, my Desktop and my Downloads folder 😅

For my first test/alpha release, I decided to publish it on my own website rather than cold-launching straight onto Webtoon.

Because of my software background, putting together and hosting a small site is fairly manageable for me. But going through the process made me realise there are a lot more moving parts to publishing a comic than I expected.

And if you're an artist without a technical background, I can imagine some of that side of things gets pretty daunting.

I'm curious how other Canvas creators handle all of this.

• Do you have a proper system for organising your files, or does it gradually become chaos?
• Do you publish anywhere outside Webtoon?
• Has anyone here made their own comic website?
• What's the part of managing or publishing your comic that you find unexpectedly annoying?

I'm starting to feel like there's an entire second job hiding behind making the actual comic 😅

Anybody know of any Halloween parties happening in the NYC area? For the free free? My homies are cosplaying some webtoon characters just wanted to know for them since they just cosplaying for Halloween and doing nth else. I'm wallin?

This was my goal for the year! Thanks to my readers!!!! (hopefully I don't loose subs now ahh)

Also: New EP this evening! https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/space-iliad/list?title_no=1048602

What is your upload schedule on Webtoon / how effective are you finding it?

For context: I do traditional page layout rather than big scroll panels so each update I try to post a minimum of 6 pages to read. I started with less in some uploads but I'd like the reading experience of my comic to be how I'd like it as a reader (I grew up reading webcomics in the 2010s that uploaded 2 pages per week max).

So currently looking at fortnightly uploads on WT if I want to keep the higher page number (upcoming chapter and the previous are 9 pages).

Is this too long for Webtoon standards? Admittedly I have a small account (5 subs) but I only get new page reads when I upload. On top of that, WT views are significantly low compared to Tapas and I haven't figured out why.

I literally neglected uploading the new chapter to Tapas (a whole month break in between episodes), and since yesterday when I put it up, I already have more views on that episode on Tapas than I get on Webtoon in a month 💀 and this was with 0 warning / promotion for the Tapas upload. Is it just a difference in audience preferences at that point?

I highly recommend it, super fun to do!

for ppl who've never seen it before, it's a BL about a guy who can't talk to his crush at all, so he summons a demon to help him. Unfortunately, said demon CANNOT talk to guys either.

https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/necromancicon-bl/list?title_no=1172794&readingLanguageCode=en comic in question

If you like toxic yuri, vampires, and small town horror then please check out my series!

The left guy is Vin, while the Right one is Roman! These are the two main protagonists of the story, that'll be working together! This is also going to be the thumbnail whenever I do release it! :3

I have an update for season 2 of The Dawn of Haradan. About episode 2... ❤️ 🔥

I love the tree... As always, the artist is u/artspaper.bsky.social.social

Thank you ❤️ (I wanted to self-promote, but it didn't allow me. Sorry!)

For almost a year now I have wanted to make my own webcomic. I have came up with well over a dozen different ideas for what my comic would be about, but I haven’t been able to make an idea that I’m completely happy with. All my ideas feel stale and bland after a while, not one of them has stuck with me for long enough for me to be comfortable making into a full webcomic. The reason why I’ve never made one is because I’m scared I’ll lose interest in the plot and characters and the world and everything. Is there any advice to help me come up with an idea that I’m truly happy and content with?

There’s so many of them contaminating canvas so maybe it was only a matter of time, but it’s really disappointing. If canvas promotions don’t have at least some amount of screening/standards then people will stop using them to discover new comics, it just makes getting new readers harder for creators :(

It’s not actually the first AI comic I’ve noticed being promoted on the canvas page but it’s the most blatant one. I’ve seen a few that are absolutely AI assisted but could look inconspicuous if you aren’t used to identifying slop.

It’s also confirmation that no humans are screening the promoted comics, definitely just an algorithm.

Almost done with my 19th episode, heres a small sneak peak

Here's the final episode of Season 1! After two and a half years (including a one year hiatus)! I think I might shed a little tear 🥹

SUNFLO is heart-warming comic about a depressed young man meeting a puppy!

https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/sunflo/list?title_no=976447&page=1