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(You see what I did there? It was sort of a pun, you see.)
I hadn't heard of Zuda Comics before I popped over to PvP and saw Scot's rant on the subject. He's very much against what they're doing, and after looking at the Zuda Comics website I have to say I agree. Judging by the content of their website, their aim seems to be to force webcomic creators to compete for the honour of being totally and mercilessly ripped off. Oh, boy! Why didn't we apply?
Scot is absolutely right when he says that there are no shortcuts to success. Absolutely right. Webcomics are constantly fighting to earn some sort of success. Some, for example, have chosen to add themselves to Webcomic Listing websites (such as those linked to the left here... hey, why not be a pal and click the Vote buttons right now?), using the rather flawed logic that if they get a lot of votes then they'll get pushed to a pore visible position on the list which will drive up readership. These people, of course, fal utterly to realise that you need a large readership to actually get to the top of said list, making the entire exercise somewhat redundant. Jump Leads offers you the chance to vote for the comic on three lists if you like it, but if you don't want to that's cool - we're not forcing the vote buttons down your throat, we're not asking you to vote for us every seventeen seco-VOTE FOR JUMP LEADS NOW!!-nds. It's there, it's an option, but I personally don't see that method as a way of driving up readership.
Success is something you have to really strive for. It's not enough to just want to succeed. You have to put the effort in to promote your webcomic, but more importantly you have to make sure it's worth reading. You can advertise on every sodding website you can think of, but if the quality isn't there in the writing and/or in the art, people aren't going to come back. If you want your webcomic to be a success in financial terms, you also have to be willing to part with some money along the way. Even if you do, though, very few people live on the income generated by their webcomic. Those that do have earnt it (with the noteable exception of Tim Buckley who, if God does exist and he actually reads his own fanmail, will be falling into a bottomless chasm sometime in the near future).
Jump Leads is a personal success for me, because after one year of planning, hoping, and very nearly giving up more than once, the comic is now here for you to read, albeit slower than we would perhaps like, but it's here all the same. Now my goal is to make other people out there appreciate the comic as much as my friends and I do. That might take a while to happen. It might never happen, in fact. But y'know what? Bugger it, I'm going to give it a go anyway.
I hadn't heard of Zuda Comics before I popped over to PvP and saw Scot's rant on the subject. He's very much against what they're doing, and after looking at the Zuda Comics website I have to say I agree. Judging by the content of their website, their aim seems to be to force webcomic creators to compete for the honour of being totally and mercilessly ripped off. Oh, boy! Why didn't we apply?
Scot is absolutely right when he says that there are no shortcuts to success. Absolutely right. Webcomics are constantly fighting to earn some sort of success. Some, for example, have chosen to add themselves to Webcomic Listing websites (such as those linked to the left here... hey, why not be a pal and click the Vote buttons right now?), using the rather flawed logic that if they get a lot of votes then they'll get pushed to a pore visible position on the list which will drive up readership. These people, of course, fal utterly to realise that you need a large readership to actually get to the top of said list, making the entire exercise somewhat redundant. Jump Leads offers you the chance to vote for the comic on three lists if you like it, but if you don't want to that's cool - we're not forcing the vote buttons down your throat, we're not asking you to vote for us every seventeen seco-VOTE FOR JUMP LEADS NOW!!-nds. It's there, it's an option, but I personally don't see that method as a way of driving up readership.
Success is something you have to really strive for. It's not enough to just want to succeed. You have to put the effort in to promote your webcomic, but more importantly you have to make sure it's worth reading. You can advertise on every sodding website you can think of, but if the quality isn't there in the writing and/or in the art, people aren't going to come back. If you want your webcomic to be a success in financial terms, you also have to be willing to part with some money along the way. Even if you do, though, very few people live on the income generated by their webcomic. Those that do have earnt it (with the noteable exception of Tim Buckley who, if God does exist and he actually reads his own fanmail, will be falling into a bottomless chasm sometime in the near future).
Jump Leads is a personal success for me, because after one year of planning, hoping, and very nearly giving up more than once, the comic is now here for you to read, albeit slower than we would perhaps like, but it's here all the same. Now my goal is to make other people out there appreciate the comic as much as my friends and I do. That might take a while to happen. It might never happen, in fact. But y'know what? Bugger it, I'm going to give it a go anyway.
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