@CandiedCotton

I was really honored to be mentioned in the 'featured' list, that was awesome! Thank you so much. It's also nice to see such a variety showcased, and I look forward to reading a few of the ones I personally took interest in. Thanks again and I hope we can keep growing together.

I used some of the subreddits you mentioned, didn't even know a few of those existed.

I've been recommending it all over the place to fellow creators, as well as readers. Definitely down to help it grow!

Hey there. A lot of folks who aren't necessarily wanting to reiterate what someone else says, but would like to agree or show support, often use a 'like' button in a lot of forums. This is pretty standard in most places. I think adding the option to like or otherwise show support/agreement with posts would be super useful in the forums.

I agree with most of the comments (anime ace is a great and industry standard font!).

One thing I will say, is that for comics written in english with the intended audience being english-speaking, it doesn't make much sense to follow the japanese standard of reading right to left. The reason manga does this is because the japanese language (kanji, hiragana, etc) are written right to left. English is written left to right.

It's always good to keep in mind who your target audience is, and what will make your comic flow the smoothest. The current layout could easily put off potential readers.

Eh. I'm glad you support them so much. I've unfortunately not had a good experience with them.

If you pay the monthly subscription you can use their music, but if you -ever- cancel it for any reason, they will rapidly go after you. I've had this happen, and I've known numerous youtubers who've had this happen.

It said in their TOS that you can use music you downloaded while you had your sub even after you canceled said sub, but that only goes for -content- that you've uploaded during that time. So if you pay the sub, download a song, and post a video with that song, it's fine (though I have twice had them make a claim on my videos WHILE I was subbed). But if you have that song in your intro, or your content (I'm a game developer by trade, so think for example, a soundtrack for a start menu), and post any sort of content after your sub, they'll make a claim against you.

So basically, unless it's a one off and you only -use- the music during the sub (which is not cheap), you're screwed. It's a lot of money for a monthly sub that most people will have to pay for a long time just to reuse a song they essentially already paid to use.

To clarify (since this is probably confusing to read):

You are only licensed to use the music, regardless when you downloaded it, if you are subbed. If you cancel the sub, you can no longer use the music, even if you paid when you downloaded it. So you are stuck in a perpetual cycle of paying roughly $20 a month (since most people need the commercial license) from the get go. They do not clarify this in their TOS and it has screwed over a -lot- of people.

Also if you do use their music, you have to make sure to put in the blurb they want that credits and links to them. Lot of people don't seem to realize that. No biggie for me, I just know some people have had claims on them by not doing that.

@cantrell Oh I totally believe it, I'm definitely not saying they aren't putting in effort. Just that it should be expected, of course. I think Global Comix is doing very well, and it seems they're very genuine in their support of artists. Something we unfortunately just don't see enough of out there.

Action/fight scenes can really kick my butt. Dynamic poses and interesting, exciting perspectives, and then all the tricks you need to use to represent effects and motion. It's very easy to go too far or not far enough, and it can make or break your scenes.

I just joined this site yesterday after seeing it mentioned on a forum that was complaining about how evil Webtoon is. And legitimately, Webtoon is horrific. Their expectations for their paid creators are insane and very literally leading people to death from overwork, and they give basically nothing to canvas creators.

Tapas isn't much better. Their revenue options are almost nonexistent. Ad payment is a joke.

In the end, what do you consider "worth it?" For me, right now, it's having a place where I can host my work and be treated with respect and appreciation by the company I am freely hosting my product at. It's our content that makes them money. We deserve a proper and respectable share of that.

And honestly, it's not even the actual money itself, but the principle of the matter. At least for me.

I hope this place grows. If they take good care of their content creators, it will, and it will grow fast.

I will argue one point I've seen, though. I don't think it should be entirely the responsibility of the creators to do all the marketing. Any decent hosting site should put money into promoting their creators and featuring certain works. That's just industry standard.