suggestions for comic hosting?

skykiii

skykiii

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So I've thought of maybe finally getting off my ass and trying to make some comics, but one thing I wanna know in advance... where would I put the thing if I made it? (Online, I mean... if I only had to deal with physical space the answer would clearly be "on the shelf.")

Places like ComicGenesis or whatever seem specifically set up for Gag-a-Day type comics, which is not what I'd be writing... I'd rather distribute in digital "issues", and all my works have definite endings.

I thought about Neocities--I used to use Angelfire back in the day and I like the idea of something that is like the old-school internet... but I searched, found the thread on them here and.... well, the things I read worry me. None of my story ideas are overtly political... but I don't want to wake up one day and find my work has been scrubbed just because someone said "there are no trans people in this comic and that makes it hate speech!"

I already have a Wordpress blog.... but that's a blog and I'm not sure if it would serve my purposes (blogs by nature seem more suited to strip-a-day comics). I'd also like something where I could offer downloads in like .CBR format if I felt like it.

Anyway, recommendations?
 
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You missed the train to be a famous webcomic by about 20 years. If you still want to give it a try then just host your own website, even Ben Garrison and Stonetoss are able to do that despite being nazis. If you're a humongous poorfag then just post them on Twitter.
 
Who cares? Just do it, you've posted about this before and you're just looking for reasons not to follow through. Now it's "Oh but what would I do with it if I made one?". Just stop. Make a comic. Then figure it out.
 
on that shmorky-male grind set, based
you should just make a basic HTML/CSS page and host it for free on firebase or somthing
 
Fascist Frederick said:
Just do it, you've posted about this before and you're just looking for reasons not to follow through.
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If that's the case, I'd like to revise my answer: Don't make a comic, don't worry about putting the canceled comic anywhere.

If you have ideas but have trouble drawing them, start with a web novel and make sure you record the ideas and world building somewhere before you forget it all in your hesitation.

Then once you've gotten the idea more fleshed out and too well documented to lose, you can make an accompanying comic.

If your blog isn't too specialized and your fans there aren't expecting structure too much, drafts and world building can go there, just under a special tag.

Still keep backups though. And don't keep the backup in the same place as you keep the live copy.
 
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Dergint said:
If that's the case,
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@Fascist Frederick is referring to the fact that I made a depresso-post a few weeks back that kind-sorta reads like that (it was about how some ideas I had wound up being done by other people) but people back then said "stop worrying and just do it."

I've taken their advice and am now information gathering. Search engines are useless and frankly Kiwis are the only people I trust online, so I asked here.
 
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skykiii said:
a few weeks back
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My bad, I imagined this was something you considered every few months and never did. If it's just one time a few weeks ago, fair, you don't have to worry about taking so long that you'll forget, yet.

Whoever told you to just go for it is right - oftentimes one story will hit it big, then get followed by waves and waves of other stories with similar setups. In these cases, the first story is usually decent, and the imitations are usually trash, but sometimes the best story of the lot is one that deviates and has superior execution.

For your email question earlier, you need a plan for because if you get kicked off a provider and need to migrate then you might lose your address. Fixing everything that has your old address is not fun.

For this however? The stakes aren't as high. You should be safe as long as you still have copies of all your comics.. If you get removed from a platform due to wrongthink, just re-upload the comic elsewhere. Your fans will run across the new site eventually and the art style will be the proof that you're the same person.
 
As a kid, I had an edgy webcomic on Angelfire that eventually got taken down for ToS violations. So I was like, fuck your ToS, I'll build my own website. It only took:

-A spare computer that could be always online. A friend helped me cobble one together from spare parts. (Free except for whatever I paid him for his help.)
-Apache Web Server. (Free.)
-A dynamic DNS service so people could access the server without typing in an IP address. They just had to type in shart-attack.edgyboi.com or whatever it was. (Free.)
-Some basic HTML and CSS knowledge. It takes almost nothing to put together a decent-looking, functional webcomic gallery. (Free.)

Pretty basic setup, but it worked great and gave me total freedom. Not sure how viable that kind of setup would be nowadays.
 
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Shart Attack said:
As a kid, I had an edgy webcomic on Angelfire that eventually got taken down for ToS violations. So I was like, fuck your ToS, I'll build my own website. It only took:

-A spare computer that could be always online. A friend helped me cobble one together from spare parts. (Free except for whatever I paid him for his help.)
-Apache Web Server. (Free.)
-A dynamic DNS service so people could access the server without typing in an IP address. They just had to type in shart-attack.edgyboi.com or whatever it was. (Free.)
-Some basic HTML and CSS knowledge. It takes almost nothing to put together a decent-looking, functional webcomic gallery. (Free.)

Pretty basic setup, but it worked great and gave me total freedom. Not sure how viable that kind of setup would be nowadays.
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Wow, you're Clay of 'Sexy Losers' fame? I didn't know we were in the presence of royalty.
skykiii said:
I thought about Neocities--I used to use Angelfire back in the day and I like the idea of something that is like the old-school internet... but I searched, found the thread on them here and.... well, the things I read worry me. None of my story ideas are overtly political... but I don't want to wake up one day and find my work has been scrubbed just because someone said "there are no trans people in this comic and that makes it hate speech!"
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It sounds like you should just use Neocities for now. If you have your files for your website in a folder structure on your PC, you can just use their command line/CLI tool to upload everything to there. If you get kicked off there you can upload exactly those same files to another hosting provider, or host them yourself, or store them in IPFS or some shit. If you name your image files in such a way that they are alphabetically in order, you can just ZIP or RAR the cunts up into a CBZ or CBR if you feel like it.
 
Dergint said:
Whoever told you to just go for it is right - oftentimes one story will hit it big, then get followed by waves and waves of other stories with similar setups. In these cases, the first story is usually decent, and the imitations are usually trash, but sometimes the best story of the lot is one that deviates and has superior execution.
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Ann Coates said:
You missed the train to be a famous webcomic by about 20 years. If you still want to give it a try then just host your own website, even Ben Garrison and Stonetoss are able to do that despite being nazis. If you're a humongous poorfag then just post them on Twitter.
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Honestly, in this day and age, if you're going into any sort of comic with dollar signs in your eyes, you gotta be delusional. Nowadays, you do it because you have a story to tell, and writing in prose just isn't good enough.

Which is basically where I am. I tried prose, but all my ideas have a lot of visual components that I feel just don't work in a text-based story. It's fine for an outline but its not the primary form I'd like things to be experienced.

Actually my thought is there's three primary stories I'd like to do. There's one I've already done seven pages on--a philosophical piece where I have conversations with God (its hopefully not as pretentious as it sounds). I actually showed this to another Kiwi, who agreed my art sucks and that my version of God looks like a Sonic OC... in my defense tho, this is more or less a practice comic and part of the idea is just getting myself used to drawing on a regular basis, so I'm taking a "bad art is better than no art" stance.

Once I feel confident, I'll roll out the other two.

This is, of course, the other reason I didn't want a typical host like Comic Genesis because those are all based around the idea you'll only be doing one work at a time.
 
you could host a static site on github or gitlab for free, buy a domain for bonus professionalism and you’re done. Webcomic web design is pretty simple, ../index/1-infinity, image in the center, forwards and backwards arrow. Downside is you don’t have a lot of storage space so heavy images have to be externally hosted on imgur or whatever other website you can leech free storage space on. If you feel like getting your hands dirty you can get an old laptop plug it into your router and give self hosting a shot but idk how technical you want to get.
 
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