Sometimes you’ve been making webcomics so long you forget about how little you knew when you started.  Yeah, so what if you can make comics? So what if you can make the site? How do you go about putting both those aspects together to create a successful webcomic model?
A huge, huge part of gathering an [...]

EDIT: before you start to read this, I should warn you.  This is a more heated and opinionated article that’s been boiling in my head in response to a couple forum posts blasting the display off webcomics off the front page. I’m far too passive to go and post this there, but I wanted to [...]

On the SpiderForest forums, one member asked if signing up on webcomic toplists and coming up with vote incentives was worth it. By worth it, I mean “does the effort bring enough readers to make up for the time spent?”  The short answer is most definitely YES.
Toplists are a popularity contest. Unpopular/unknown comics won’t ever [...]

I’m going to present you with a scenario I’ve seen happen far more often that I would like:
So, you really like this one comic, named “Comic”.  It updates 2 days a week, and you are a loyal reader.  The site is very professional looking, and includes the webcomic website must-have pages.  The site is “SO [...]

Whether you call it the cast page, the character profile page, the “who’s who” page, I don’t care. Second to the archive page, the cast page is the next important secondary webpage on your webcomic website.  Off the top of my head, the only comic I know of who doesn’t need a cast page is [...]

The second feature of WWM-H, (whee! Acronymns!) is an archive page. If you have a webcomic, this is a secondary page you must have.  When I say “secondary” page, I mean that the page is not primary; it does not display your comic and it is not your home page.  This is my personal vocabulary.  [...]