What would make you quit making a webcomic? Not quit making comics all together, but just a series.


Or maybe in the past you have started a webcomic but decided to quit making it. What caused you to quit?

Would it be flaming/critical reviews, didn't like where the story was going, art, time... you tell me.

And lastly why do you think most creators quit a webcomic series?

I was working on a humorous detective comic, and by strip 2 i realized it took me way too long. (Yes, I stopped after 2.) I was doing it completely digitally, and I'm nowhere near a natural artist, so drawing people took me absolutely forever, days even, since I had to edit and curve each line. I didn't enjoy doing it, and it was frustrating, so I gave up. Heroic, eh?

If the original author say to stop it

Lack of interest plus schoolwork piling up, had to decide that a webcomic wasn't worth the time i was putting into it that could be spent on other things.

druqz

The last comic I quit because I didn't think it was going anywhere, but I have quit a different comic because of people sending me rude or disgusting e-mails.

Lack of time to work on comics, and I have a tendency to suddenly start hating the story of any comic I'm working on.

Well I don't make my comics just to put up here, so I wouldn't stop making my comic, but this is what would make me stop posting them here: -If I got no views whatsoever -if I got loads and loads of hate mail

Here's why I would just stop making a comic all together:
-If it was going nowhere
-If it took a ridiculous amount of time to make
-If I realised the story actually really sucked

But I tend to make sure those things don't happen, by doing a lot of test stuff (trying out the art style/colouring method a lot to see if it takes a normal amount of time) and I can usually tell when I'm writing the script if the story is bad, so I'd stop before I'd even started drawing anything lol

I think the main reason that webcomic creators stop making their comics is the commitment. They may not have been committed enough for the work they'd have to put in, and therefore they stop after it becomes too much for them. That's just a guess though.

I started a second comic over a year ago. It was called 'Sporadic Man' and it was awesome. All two strips of it.

However, my comic making time is so small that I had to decide between my main comic and the new side comic. The main comic (George the Dragon) won out.

I still have plans for Sporadic Man, but the time just has not been available. I don't like to think that I quit working on the comic, it is just on hold.

Who knows, if I get some extra time, I may update Sporadically ;)

This forum topic.
Truly, today is the day the music died!

If the frustration it took to make pages began to far out exceed the joy in completing them.

Being forced away from making updates by real life distractions. Creation wise, I find it difficult to get back on the horse, so to speak, after a long period of not doing something.

Well, I plan I quitting my comic in it's current state by the middle of next year.

By that I mean, as far as the role that zombies will continue to play in the story, not much.
So the story of the characters will continue, but I plan on continuing it with a different title as zombies will no longer be the primary threat.

*SPOILER ALERT* It will still be Bear VS. ? :)

It was like others have said. I just didn't really know how far I could take the comic in it's current state, but I didn't want to quit. So I just let the story evolve towards another direction.

I just don't feel like having a story meander just in order to keep a comic going. Unfortunately, I see this a lot in webcomics.

I have quit making a comic for moral reasons. I have quit a comic for time constraints (as making one series is quite time consuming enough thank you) and I have taken two longish haituses to regroup and get refocused. But I always come back. I have made a committment to finish Robot Wars and I plan to...even if it takes ten to fifteen years...

I've stopped posting one because my collaborator crapped out, one because I realized I didn't have a strong enough idea of where the story was going so I decided to go back and flesh it out first.

My biggest one that I quit was for a variety of reasons. I didn't have enough time with school, I was beginning to feel like it was starting to repeat itself, and also just because I wasn't the person I was when I started it, and the circumstances of my life that made it funny then, just weren't there any more.

ERasER
The last comic I quit because I didn't think it was going anywhere, but I have quit a different comic because of people sending me rude or disgusting e-mails.

Hmmm...
Was it this site???I've never got any rude comment or e-mail.I did got few in Korean Website When I once updated just one episode of 30years(or 26year)as a sample.They said my comic had worst grammer ever(Which I kind of agree)and said I'm an embarrasment of Korea.But luckly lot of people supported me as well saying if you are so good,why don't you make it???It was pretty frustrating but I manage to forget it and keep on updating it here(I wasn't plaaning to update more in a first place).One of main reason is because I want to see me Updating the last episode of whatever comic I started(except the one author said to stop) and I will.I'm happy even if I don't get much comment as I expected(I got 63 comment along when I updated 30 years in Korea),But still,I'm happy few people does know Korean comic is pretty awesome as well.That's the main reason why I update the comic and I'm sure I'll never quit it.

I take long breaks from one of my projects due to time constraints.

I guess, if anything would make me quit my main projects, it would be the following:

#1. I get a life. (a job, find true love, etc.)
#2. Someone buys me out and takes over.
#3: Someone threatens me at gunpoint. Sorry guys, I'm no hero. -_-


If I get a job and end up moving, I will definitely be on hiatus for a few weeks, but no longer than necessary. If I never return, my readers can assume one of the previously listed things has happened.

mamaya94

ERasER
The last comic I quit because I didn't think it was going anywhere, but I have quit a different comic because of people sending me rude or disgusting e-mails.

Hmmm...
Was it this site???I've never got any rude comment or e-mail.

It's not drunkduck, ages ago I used to own a site for my comic 'The Funnies' and after rude and inappropriate comments I quit it

One of them was a comic strip series, but I just didn't like it. I found that a joke which was hilarious on monday would no longer be funny to me by sunday. Otherwise, I just take long breaks (longest break, I think, was 6 months.) I mean, rude comments and insults can be disheartening...but I keep on trekking (the only way to improve your work, after all, is to practice.)

I quit making my comic for a long time... I had planned on re-vamping it by redo-ing the whole thing for a long time now but the big push was really when I stopped being friends with a girl that one of the major supporting cast was based on.

My relationship with her was tenuous at times and that explains a lot of my random absences... I just didn't feel like even looking at the comic when I was so mad at her. In the end my friendship with her wasn't worth the emotional acid reflux (also she didn't care anymore) so for the last time, she abandoned me and I shouldn't feel bad about it! and... wait I was getting to something here?

Anyways I had to come to terms with what to do with her character first and then I was able to re-write it.

... and that's why it's not always the best idea to base characters off real people!

What would make or has made you quit making a webcomic?

death.

Aside from the one comic that I just outright completed, all my other comic projects have ended because I needed to focus my time on more important art projects. Before it was mostly my completed comic that got all the attention, then it was school, and now it's getting real work in the art industry.

Let's see the comics that I quit..

The 1st one was the drunkduck civil war comic. I had some goofy idea for a complete short story. I gueststarred someone from another comic. I had a dumb joke in there with her involved. She completely spazzed out in the comments and in a pm. I apologized. I thought I might continue then the main story died. I felt like what's the point and deleted the entire thing.

I have two others that I started in the fall last year. I was going to grad school and was shocked that I had so much extra time compared to my undergrad. Started two comics. Then schoolwork came up real fast. So I quit them to keep up my first two comics and for school too.

I guess the trend seems to be people quit when they feel like their comic story isn't fully fleshed out.

if some serious emergency stopped me from drawing forever. and by "emergency" I mean "becoming completely paralyzed, or losing all my limbs, but that still wouldn't happen because I would learn how to write/draw with my mouth like those awesome people I've seen on the news". I just love art and comics way too much to stop.

...and it's kind of the only thing I'm any good at, so, uh, yeah...

although, I just remember this year's NaNoWriMo (definitely different, but sort of similar)... which I quit shortly after the halfway point because it was just absolutely horrible and going nowhere. but even then, I'm still probably going to end up refining it and redoing it someday.

I've kinda quit working on an unpublished webcomic. Why? Cause suddenly I have discovered digital inking and my art made leaps forward and now it would look wrong to simply continue with the next chapter. Sooo, I'll be redrawing it next year, starting from scratch with stronger designs and all.

zaymac
I just don't feel like having a story meander just in order to keep a comic going. Unfortunately, I see this a lot in webcomics.

Oh yeah, when the story's over that's when it's time to end it.
I've ended up abandoning projects for a variety of reasons. There was a short story that actually did get a little interest going for it, but with so many things competing for my attention at the time it just sort of fell by the wayside and I haven't felt like picking it up again. There was another comic I was just convinced that nobody got, not to mention it partially controlled by someone else that wanted to take the story in another direction than I did. Before that I drew a comic that was to make fun of my friends by caricaturizing them as bumbling idiots-- they loved it. They loved it to the point that they started telling me what I should draw next, people that were not in the comic asked to be in the comic and then it just wasn't fun anymore, so I quit.

Trying for something too large in scope.
I've recently learned I like to make short stories of 8-12 pages. They're kind of like chapters, in that they use the same characters...but they can all be taken as their own separate stories.
But keeping it small helps me to concentrate my ideas more specifically, so that I'm not all over the map.

Time. Having no readers. Doing 50 pages than realizing none of them are good. Feeling lonely. Doing it about a trading card game/anime (I can name at least 12) you used to like but now think it sucks. Getting an actual life. REalizing the art sucks. Realizing the story sucks. Realizing YOU suck. Sucking.

I could go on but...I've got a new page to do.

1337 Master don't be so negative XD if you think the art sucks then you redo it! Like what both I and Aurora Borealis are doing lol

I had to come to terms with the fact that no matter how well I do my artwork, there will always be people better than me >.> and it's not just in simply drawing... I'm quite happy with my drawing... it's everything else that I think needs work... like toning and paneling and story-boarding and flow... There are people whose artwork isn't so great but they are excellent story-tellers with some very well done paneling etc.

There's a couple of things for me. For starters, web comics are a hobby for the most part. Wen given the choice of working on a project for money vs working on a project for fun, money wins out. I kid of have to pay my rent, so I tend to favor the more responsible choices. The other problem I sometimes run into is based on my career choice. As an animator, when I'm working I'm usually drawing all day. While I love my job, I usually don't want to come home and draw some more after spending 10-16 hours in the studio.

So, while I'm trying to get back into working on comics, it's mostly because I'm not currently working on a project professionally at the moment. Once I find another job, though, odds are, I'll go back on hiatus.

flyingwind66
1337 Master don't be so negative XD if you think the art sucks then you redo it! Like what both I and Aurora Borealis are doing lol

I had to come to terms with the fact that no matter how well I do my artwork, there will always be people better than me >.> and it's not just in simply drawing... I'm quite happy with my drawing... it's everything else that I think needs work... like toning and paneling and story-boarding and flow... There are people whose artwork isn't so great but they are excellent story-tellers with some very well done paneling etc.

...but that is what WOULD make me quit doing a comic... :(.

Jk. I don't really care how my comic looks yet because I don't have a tablet and once I do I WILL redo all the pages. That and I like how I write them better.