It's just plain out not interesting anymore. When I started making webcomics it was interesting, and I was interacting with interesting people. Now most of the people who coment on my comics were 10 year olds with terrible spelling and of what we have here for comic artists, very few are interesting or funny, and even fewer of those are currently even making a comic. SO I said screw it, I started making comics with the goal of trying to get into the school newspaper/to hone my craft.

I quit drawing my first comic because I couldn't keep to a schedule.

I still can't keep to a schedule with my new comic but at this time the only person I'm letting down is myself.

Er, if you've read the whole thread you can basically completely skip over this post because I'm to lazy to read over the thread right now, so the stuff I say may just be a repeat of everything already said...

Well, there are many different things that can make someone quit...
You may have realized the idea is just to crappier or to common...
You realized that you don't like the idea at all..
It frustrates you whenever you get something wrong.
Not enough time.
Sticking to a schedule that you originally planned out doesn't work for you.
Some critic gave you some harsh feedback that you took the wrong way so you quit.
Or you just flat out say to yourself "I'm not good enough".

Personally, multiple things happened to get me to quit...
Sticking to a schedule that you originally planned out doesn't work for you.
Some critic gave you some harsh feedback that you took the wrong way so you quit.
Or you just flat out say to yourself "I'm not good enough".
You may have realized the idea is just to crappier or to common...
You realized that you don't like the idea at all..
It frustrates you whenever you get something wrong.

Everyone but the "Not enough time part".

Worst kind of nerd if your have to much time on your hands and you're not good at anything whatsoever...

Way to say everything everyone said before Spuds. :P

Time is probably the biggest issue of all. It is for me anyway.

I read somewhere that most comics only make it to the 33rd page, and then they quit. I guess for every reason that yous guys said before this.

People really underestimate the time it takes to make a comic. It's a lot of work, and if you don't absolutely love what you're doing, it can be a chore. People have a tendency of hating chores.

I started the current comic I'm making a buffer for twice before about one or two years or so apart, but stopped them both because I didn't like the results of the first page each time, and I decided I wanted to change the plot around, which changed what the first page was going to be. Which is why when I finally finished my first buffer page this time around and actually kinda liked it, and when I decided I had a more solid plot, I took the time to pat myself on the back. Third time the charm.

Then there was another that I stopped around the time that I was working on the second try because I thought, what the hell was I doing working on two comics when I had problems starting ONE? I think I got to page two on that.

For most part, I was about to start a new short comic but I cancelled it then I already have BLTR and Burnhams and these two comics are huge comics and they're going to stay for a long time.

However, I'm going to start something called: "Inside Simonitro's Head". It's going to be short stories of whatever comes to mind... it could be humorous, series, abstract, silly stuff, etc...

However, Gunslinger Witch is still going to be hosted at some point when my art skill gets better and more confident for it.

3D glasses, 33rd page? That seems optimistic! In my experience most dont get past page 4!

Probably getting writer's block so bad that I can't think of anything at all. That's when I would try to get ideas from the readers. Since I don't get many comments that probably wouldn't work so I would probably quit eventually.

As well as many of the above reasons, I'd also quit if all my readers spontaneously turned into a bunch of jackasses and started thinking that I didn't know anything about my own webcomic and should start listening exclusively to them rather than going with how I feel the stories should work. Then I'd kill off all the characters in completely unsatisfactory ways just to spite them.

I think if eveyrone just stopped reading.
Yeah I know I'm meant to make the comic for me etc, but I like the idea that people out there are all reading it and if they all gave up on me, I dont know if I could stay motivated to keep making it.

harkovast
I think if eveyrone just stopped reading.
Yeah I know I'm meant to make the comic for me etc, but I like the idea that people out there are all reading it and if they all gave up on me, I dont know if I could stay motivated to keep making it.

But people don't stop reading Harkovast!!! That'd be cruel and unneccessarry!!!

And most people never get to page two. Or one if they do a cover, trust me. :D

The Gravekeeper
As well as many of the above reasons, I'd also quit if all my readers spontaneously turned into a bunch of jackasses and started thinking that I didn't know anything about my own webcomic and should start listening exclusively to them rather than going with how I feel the stories should work. Then I'd kill off all the characters in completely unsatisfactory ways just to spite them.

I've been getting more and more messages lately like, "Please don't kill (Insert fave character here) that would really disappoint me." I guess they sense that something bad is about to happen. And they are right, but still...

I'm glad readers have grown attached to the characters, but ultimately I decides who lives and who dies. Mwahahahahahahah!!!:)

Lack of pageviews or ideas would probably be the cause of me quitting.

People don't quit webcomics. They go on hiatus. lol

the only way i would quit is the crushing depression after I realize that people draw webcomics when they can't break into print comics. The comic industry is a lot harder to get into than it used to be.

forgetting what the comic is about

I quit everything eventually (except eating, sleeping, and breathing) so it won't take anything at all to MAKE me quit. I just know that one day I WILL quit. It's a natural progression in my brain from discovery to excitement to pleasure to drudgery to quitting. The only thing I don't know is exactly how many pages the pleasure will last before I quit.

Even if I quit webcomics, I wouldn't quit making comics altogether, since I'm also heavily involved with the UK's small press print comic scene.

Things that would make me consider cutting web-based comics:

Trolls and FanDumb: Constructive criticism is one thing, but only with webcomics do you get the delightful phenomenon of people moaning about your comic being awful despite the fact that you're just putting it up there for free and nobody's forcing them to read it. With print comics, people will buy it if they want it, having made an informed purchase, and generally appreciate the effort and be satisfied with their purchase. Online, people don't pay diddly-squat yet they talk like you exist to churn out comics for their amusement, and throw a hissy-fit if the plot or characters don't do what they want, or if you skip an update or two. Oh, and not to mention getting really bitchy and competitive over little things like popularity. For goodness' sake, maybe you have 20 readers and I have 200, but that's still nothing! You can't live off a webcomic unless you have over 2000 readers, so complaining about the popularity of a slightly more popular comic is like whingeing because you have a pea and your neighbour has a bean! If you don't think a comic deserves its level of popularity, well, that's just your opinion. Feel free to rant about it in your LJ or whatever, but it's very rude to come and post it on the person's comic comments! Complaining like that won't convince the readership of the popular comic "OH! He's right! This comic sucks and I should read HIS comic instead!", it will just make you come across as a prat.

...Thankfully for the most part, readers are supportive, literate, encouraging and helpful. If I started to get a lot of trolls, or if my readership started to really take me for granted, I'd probably just quit and go into print, or at least turn off comments. It can really wear you down when you've worked 6 hours on a page for no money only to be moaned at.

The other, more likely thing would be time constraints. It is possible that in the foreseeable future I could 'break in' and be a full-time pro comic artist. I dunno how well I'd cope with drawing comics all day and then drawing more comics on top. Generally though, I consider my current webcomic to be my 'Magnum Opus', and would like to continue it if possible. I expect that at most I'd put it on hiatus or cut down the updates if I were to do a really intense, demanding commission.

I do hope that I never need to quit webcomics though, as I think it's a really fun way to make and share my work, and I enjoy the community spirit, support and feedback, as well as the freedom it gives me ^_^

Inability to focus and lack of good jokes is what made me stop This Webcomic Is Retarded. There are too many "random" comics on DrunkDuck by people who don't give a shit about comedy and it was hard coming up with an obscure, yet funny joke that would set my comic apart from the others.

Though, I have to admit that the reason I started TWIR in the first place was in itself retarded.

I will never quit making comics, however I will quit making web comics. It all depends on how interested I am in it and how many stories I can pump out of it. If I lose interest or run out of ideas I will quit. I don't care if no one reads it I will still make it as long as I feel necessary.

I'd have to be torn from it screaming and kicking by the "system" that said I'd probably cry for a week if I got a comment every day telling me how much I sucked.
I'm just making my internet presence known, just got professionally printed as a cover designer and I'm finally putting my comic dreams out there so we'll just see how fragile my ego is this week. Also I love how Darth Mongoose talks.

I've quit making a webcomic because I found another that almost had my identical story.

The comic Kodi I'd been working on was about a boy who died, went to hell and had to eat demonmeat to become a demon himself, every time he ate demon he would gain some powers, transform excetera.
It had the devil, a demon who had grown the size of a planet, it had a club of demons that tried to look like humans instead of the other way around, it had winged humans that could jump between hell and earth.
I was really excited about it, and then I read demon eater...

Damn that sucked. I really like demon eater now and maybe I'll try to start over with Kodi in a couple of years, I just don't want to steal any ideas so I'll rewrite it completely.

Kroatz
I've quit making a webcomic because I found another that almost had my identical story.

The comic Kodi I'd been working on was about a boy who died, went to hell and had to eat demonmeat to become a demon himself, every time he ate demon he would gain some powers, transform excetera.
It had the devil, a demon who had grown the size of a planet, it had a club of demons that tried to look like humans instead of the other way around, it had winged humans that could jump between hell and earth.
I was really excited about it, and then I read demon eater...

Damn that sucked. I really like demon eater now and maybe I'll try to start over with Kodi in a couple of years, I just don't want to steal any ideas so I'll rewrite it completely.

Hey.. still sounds kinda cool. I wrote DE because I was looking for that kind of story. Please rewrite it and post it soon. I'm sure you can make it unique.

Someone
Hey.. still sounds kinda cool. I wrote DE because I was looking for that kind of story. Please rewrite it and post it soon. I'm sure you can make it unique.

Thanks, I'll be going back to the story in a couple of years. I'm allready working on 1 running story, and I have three stories in the making...
It was just really weird that I had almost all important aspects of your story in some way incorporated into mine... I even had the naked girl, even though mine had a head... When I come up with a unique story I'll contact you first, to check if I didn't subconciously stole something...

I'll stop because I wrote on it. Even if I have to kill all my characters to achieve that, I WILL finish Between Places. Even if it's a horribly unsatisfying ending involving everyone dying. (Likelyhood: fairly high. I'm of the school of tying off loose ends by killing people.)

I'm not in it for the readers, comments, attention, or anything. Nothing any person can do will stop me from finishing it. (Well, okay, you could always run me over, and I'll be in the hospital with a coma for five years. That might work... please don't, though.)

I'm in this for the story. I will quit once I have finished.

Time constraints might make it harder, though. I really hope I can finish both Between Places and The Millennium House (should be easier than BP as it has a simpler storyline, just a slower update schedule until BP finishes)--and I would love to make a third webcomic once those two are finished. But by that point I'll probably have a full time job and college... well... I WON'T BE STOPPED D: (gets dragged off screen by Darth Real Life) NOOOOOOOOO...

But in that case it'll probably be the dreaded hiatus, not QUITTING...

I have an autobiographical webcomic, so I probably won't stop making strips until I realize how boring my life is. And even then, I'll probably make a hundred strips about that one topic until I quit.

If I stopped having fun making a comic, I'd probably stop (although I'd probably try to at least bring it to a decent ending point). But since I love telling stories, I can't imagine that happening.

What I could see happening is running out of time to do a comic. Between a full-time job and my family time, much of my day is already taken. However, I always try to make time for my hobbies (such as during lunchbreak, when I'm not working through it).

Not counting personal emergencies (not enough time to pull out a good quality work, or being assimilated by The Borg, there would be just 2 things that could make me quit.

1.- If I'm not enjoying the making anymore. I always will love the idea of people liking my work and always be happy that my fans are very supportive. But if I'm not having fun anymore while making my comic, then there is no point with going on.

2.- If I felt that the project has run it's course. If there is nothing more that I could do with the comic, then it should be time to quit and go on to something else.

3D Glasses
I read somewhere that most comics only make it to the 33rd page, and then they quit. I guess for every reason that yous guys said before this.

A lot of comics I stumbled upon on DD never made it past page 1. Usually a splash page saying: COMING SOON! Hell, that kind of happened to me!

With my first comic, A Bit Cheesy, I made it to page 39, finishing it with a nice little cliffhanger. Then, I put it on an indefinite hiatus. And even though it's been over a year, I never called it quits. I will come back to it when I develop a different style that would suit that particular story. I just got tired of the super-realistic art. Plus, it took too much time to make. I'd spend 7+ days on one page. I'd skip favorite shows, limit my social life, quit working out, reading books, writing stories, etc, altogether. Which was WRONG. So for the past year, I've been making up for that. Real life = fun! So much fun that I had a hard time forcing myself to start drawing again. And it wasn't until I managed to develop a style that's simple and fast to draw that I finally started my current comic, "Chomp!" - a short, comic-strip format, one or two panels at most.