Where the kids are posting comics these days

[layla]

Here's a question for all of you: where and how are people posting webcomics these days?

What I'm doing right now is posting pages to this blog, as well as (in Sun-Cutter's case) posting to Webcomicsnation.com, which as far as I can tell isn't really used very much anymore. However, I've been out of the loop on webcomics for a number of years, and I'm not really sure how it's being done nowadays.

When I first got into webcomics, central aggregate sites like Webcomicsnation and Keenspace were used by a lot of people. Are these still a thing, and if so, are there any new popular ones that I should know about?

I've heard of Comicspress, but don't know how easy it is to install and use (and you need a Wordpress installation underneath, right?).

What about banner/link exchanges and other ways of introducing new people to the comic? Do people post long-form comics on Tumblr -- is that even possible?

I am all ears for any suggestions that you have.

Comments

[nonniemous]

From what I'm told, everything lives on Tumblr. Which I am too old to appreciate, I guess. Or imgr.

[layla]

Tumblr .... confuses and terrifies me. *g* Or, well, not terrifies exactly, but it is definitely a very different mode of social interaction than I'm used to.

I have slowly been coming to the conclusion that I find Tumblr so frustrating and irritating because I am trying to do things that Tumblr is not set up to do -- follow discussions in chronological order, figure out the original source of a cute picture or piece of fanart so that I can respond to the artist/poster, etc. It's just not a social interaction medium the way LJ, email, etc. are, at least not in the sense of responding to individual people and having a relationship with them; it's more like you just have to lie back and let the gentle tide of Tumblr lap over you. *g*

I don't have an account there -- yet -- mainly because I don't really want that. It is definitely the place where certain kinds of activity are happening now, especially fandom-type activity and (as far as I can tell) with a special focus towards fandoms that are young, new, or heavily art-focused. (Homestuck, for example.) But, while I've seen people posting and reblogging a lot of single-panel comics, I don't think I've seen anyone doing long-form comics like mine. I'm not sure if you even can. The whole nature of Tumblr is that non-chronological, random and shiny-thing-focused; it's a "pretty thing of the day" medium, not a "reading through a whole archive" medium.

... yeah, I've thought about this, apparently. :D

[strikeslip]

'm pretty deep in tumblr and there are fan projects there-- but it's most suited to homestuck style comics where the dialogue is in the text beneath the image, not to traditional stuff. No reason original fic couldn't go where fanfic goes now, but the size reduction of images means dialogue bubbles kinda get killed.

[layla]

*nods* Yeah ... it seems to me like it could be used for traditional-type long-form comics (you can click to enlarge the images, right?), but it's not really set up to do it easily. You basically have to find ways to work around its basic navigational structure, rather than working with it.

Which doesn't mean it can't be done -- I've been Googling for "comics on tumblr" and similar search terms, which brought up a number of interesting examples -- but I can see why not very many people seem to be doing it.