I wanted to add here what’s also different between professionally made comics VS home artists?Ī professional publisher will have multiple artists working on the same comic a sketcher, an inker, a colorist and a typesetter.

Everything nowadays is an industry, and if you’re a single teenager who wants to write a webcomic, nothing is more intimidating than seeing the professional full colour long-form stories on these sites, the artists of which usually have assistants and full creative teams helping. It’s very good that webcomics are being taken more seriously as an art form now, but it feels like it’s becoming harder and harder for small-time artists to find places and projects to express themselves. You go on webtoon to see what other comics are on there, and you’re competing for views not only with other amateur series, but also with professional industry comic artists. If you’re a beginner artist who wants to publish a small-time webcomic, webtoon canvas is one of the biggest platforms. The official Batman webtoon is a perfect example of this. People complain if chapters are too short or if the story doesn’t progress in the way they like it, because ‘they’re paying for this’ and it kind of sucks. People who are used to reading professional webtoons expect full colour long-form chapters uploaded every week. Nowadays with the advent of the webtoon, the expectations for webcomics, which were once an amateur’s way to experiment with breaking into comics and telling stories, have MUCH higher expectations.

Sure, a lot of stories got abandoned (which still happens) and a lot of it was not very good, but people didn’t really expect amazing things from webcomics they read for free. Websites like smackjeeves were cool because you could find basically anything on there. Webcomics used to be a great platform for amateur artists because they were relatively unpolished, could update one page a week or a few pages a month, and people would be happy with it. This is a joke mostly, but I’ve been thinking about this since DC announced their collab with webtoon.

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