Updating Your Comics

Castle_Builder · Post by **Castle_Builder** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 11:47 am

After reading web comics for so long it seems to me that MANY people just seem to draw a strip the day before it updates.

It appears not too many people have a backlog of strips already done that are set to automatically update on a future date or dates.

That being said this is just a wild opinion I have and I could be very wrong.

I thought it might be an interesting topic to know more about.

Cope · Post by **Cope** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 11:51 am

On average, I start creating my comics about three days after they're supposed to go up.

Nutcracker · Post by **Nutcracker** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 12:07 pm

I'm always about 12 hours late.

Kirb · Post by **Kirb** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 12:18 pm

Nutcracker wrote:I'm always about 12 hours late.

Pylon · Post by **Pylon** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 12:24 pm

I start maybe two days before the update. Then, I will watch TV, surf the forums, and then maybe 13 seconds before, I'll attempt to do it. Really should stop doing that.

Dutch! · Post by **Dutch!** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 12:33 pm

I usually write mine in batches, completing a full story arc at a time (between 6 up to 20 odd strips) and upload them ready for the dates they are planned for. If I have another story arc written or ready to be worked on, I'll start on the next and build up the buffer, aiming to get as far through a term of comics as I can before going back to the classroom.

In between, that's thinking time. Several weeks to just sit back and slowly start putting together the next few ideas into stories. I've been a bit busy with camp and concert organisation these last few weeks though, so my buffer is falling. I'm right now until early/mid November, so it's just about time to start drawing up the next story arc. That should get me to the end of the year, and I can spend a bit of time thinking again.

In short, quick, intense bursts of drawing followed by longer periods of idea development.

Tynan · Post by **Tynan** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 12:43 pm

I tend to enjoy hiatus and not do anything though I do have a few pages I'm going to put up...when I re learn FTP now that I'm using a different server.

RemusShepherd · Post by **RemusShepherd** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 12:45 pm

I tried to have a backlog, but it didn't work out. It was an excuse for me to be lazy. I don't have a backlog anymore, yet I have still updated on time without fail for...wow, it's been 8 months.

I chose 'I drew tomorrow's strip today', but, ya know, it's inaccurate. It takes me 3 days to draw a page. More accurate would be, 'I *finished* tomorrow's strip today'.

CaptainClaude · Post by **CaptainClaude** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 12:48 pm

I start drawing tuesday's comic on friday and finish it monday night. Start drawing friday's on the tuesday night and finish on the thursday. Such is life.

Subhuman · Post by **Subhuman** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 1:05 pm

I always end up doing the bulk of the work the night before. Sometimes I don't finish until after midnight, so I have to manually update the site. I have terrible work habits.

Blackaby · Post by **Blackaby** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 1:07 pm

We're usually 2 weeks - a month ahead.

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 1:12 pm

You've now officially started more threads in two and a half months than I started in the entire past year.

And my answer wasn't up there.

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 1:22 pm

Start at 10pm.

Update at midnight.

Black Fox · Post by **Black Fox** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 2:06 pm

I used to have a biiig buffer in the past, about a month ahead or so...then I got lazy (and busy to my defence!!) from time to time and finally drew just in time for updates...or after them in some cases...

Lately I'm using a 2-week buffer...

You know it seems I won't destroy this buffering attempt....

Time will tell...

Wp · Post by Wp » Thu Oct 20, 2005 2:10 pm

Whenever I find time to draw, I do it. When I finish, I post it up immediately or the next day. I don't have a schedule, but I try to post one up once a week.

K-Dawg · Post by **K-Dawg** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 2:41 pm

Well cause of this lazy grind that I'm in, I am trying to update a day ahead. I'd like to have a buffer, but honestly I don't have much time to sit down and just draw for hours. I'd rather go out and hang with friends; something that will always be put above doing a silly little webcomic.

Mvmarcz · Post by **Mvmarcz** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 2:54 pm

sometimes I do a batch and slowly work on them, recently I'd become like 2 weeks ahead of myself but evacuating backed me up to where I do a strip 3 days before it's to go up, but sometimes I have to rush and get it up halfway through the date it's due up right now I'm coloring Fridays for example -_-;;

Reinder · Post by **Reinder** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 2:55 pm

Since I started posting cleaned-up decade-old comics, I am blissfully many weeks ahead again. This allows me time to work on new material and do it properly.

For a long time between 2003 and 2005, I was only days ahead, if that. This did not allow me to create the best work I possibly could. So I decided that now was as good a time as any to start filling the big gaps in my archives. Haven't missed a day or been less than two weeks ahead since.

The Neko · Post by **The Neko** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 2:57 pm

I usually start the comic the night before it's supposed to go up. So a lot of my ideas and art is entirely improvised. It probably explains how my humor isn't as refined as it probably could be.

Gengar003 · Post by **Gengar003** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 3:15 pm

My comic updates on monday, I draw a strip in its entirety on Sunday, every week.

I have one comic in teh buff4r, though! I woulda had two, but I played lasertag instead.

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