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[Jack-B-Little]

hey, im new to the forums and im starting a comic and id like some advice.

teh comic so far is about the people who live in a smallish mid-eastern city, everyone from the crazy religious nut who lives above teh cafe to the high school kids to the naked hppy comune in the woods who everyone thinks is really a bunch of sasquatches. has a lot of snarky/ witty humor, but deals with important thigns. having such a wide group of characters is so i have enough peopple to have seperate plots and stuff incase i get bored with some charactres and i can come back to them later.

if you have any general advise please give me some so that i may stow it a way like the little advise hourding rodent that i am.

[Laurie]

Many otherwise good webcomics lack a proofreader. Judging from your post, you seem to have ideas faster than your fingers can type, so a pr would be good for catching the slip-ups, and you can focus on the art and the story-telling. Just like writing a term paper, it's good to have an outside eye read over it for you.

[TheMike]

don't break the 4th wall

[Thalass]

Unless it's really funny.

[Mollinda]

Unless it's really funny.

My advice is don't pack too much in all at once.

I did and now I'm having to kill off characters

Well I say that, I just got bored really.

[almost thursday]

don't say yr gonna update five times a week and then update twice a month. people hate that.

[grrraham]

Don't throw in a lot of characters all at once.
If you want a lot of characters introduce them slowly, and establish them before you move onto something new.

[saturnine1979]

I hate to be an ass here, but spellcheck.

My god man, no one is going to care if they can't read it.

[Mollinda]

and don't use TEH. or w00t. unless it's with heavy irony.

[Luke]

This probably won't be an issue when you're starting off, but keep your filesize down. People on dial-up get turned off to a comic when it takes half an hour to read the first ten strips in an archive because it takes them that long to load. Keep the site layout clean & navigateable - the four golden buttons should be very easy to find (first, previous, next, last). People don't like to have to look for stuff.