Awesome! I just reread the entire series, except for the comics that didn’t upload, and it makes so much sense now!
And wow.
Epic doesn’t even begin to describe the storyline. Nice!
Especially considering how you did it freestyle. I remember one story that I did like that, never got anywhere, but it did involve interplanar travelling, gods, a lady torching the hells to return to her love after being cursed away from him, and sibling rivalry that was waged between dimensions…
Alright. list of hosting places:
http://www.comicgenesis.com/
http://www.keenspot.com/
http://www.webcomicsnation.com/
http://www.smackjeeves.com/
http://www.drunkduck.com/
http://www.comicracy.com/index.php
http://www.rampagenetwork.com/
http://www.comicdish.com/
Once you’ve hosted, you can join these guys if you’re female: http://tomgeeks.com/index.html
And this place is a very large listing of webcomics in rank: http://topwebcomics.com/
If you can get high on the list there, you’ll be doing very well for yourself.
This site was suggested by a successful webcomic guy who hosts quite a number of his own comics. http://www.webcomics.com/ Apparently it’s good for learning new things.
These guys are pay to host, but they do seem to have a number of pretty decent webcomics:
http://www.thewebcomiclist.com/fluent.php
All those sites listed above have their advantages and disadvantages, of course you’ll need to know your website creation stuff if you want to tweak your webcomic.
Apparently SmackJeeves is really easy to use, whereas Comic Genesis offers a lot of control over your comic site layout. Drunkduck is apparently quite slow, and Rampage Network is very shiny and you get a free domain with them, since they only go with application the quality is generally up. You’ll probably get in easy enough. Comic Dish is supposed to have very upfront and easygoing people in it.
Webcomic Nation gets a bad rap from being difficult to use.
These guys are new, but advertise themselves as easy to use: http://comicfury.com/
These guys have some details on webcomic hosting places, but not much: http://www.webcomichosting.com/
Generally, the most popular ones seem to be Keenspot, Comic Genesis, DrunkDuck and SmackJeeves.
Rampage, being somewhat harder to get into is less popular, but considered to be a very good service nonetheless.
Check em out and see what you think. Generally you want to look for somewhere that’ll give you a lot of exposure quickly. Rampage, being smaller, has a good chance of that as you’ll be exhibiting to a tighter audience.
Of course, a site that has a ‘latest comics’ option on it’s front page will do the same thing for you.
When submitting, you probably don’t want to go with an all at once approach. But rather a regular update with the backlog.
You might also want to consider extending the life of the comic by stretching out the story, filling in the details that characters refer to but aren’t known to the reader. Fleshing out character stories and so on. As it is, the comic is very short for a webcomic, and won’t last long enough to get a big reader base, which is what you’re after. So you need to have something that will extend it’s lifetime, or another comic available afterwards.
Then, of course, there’s the update schedule that you’ll have to deal with. Here on CGSociety, it’s not a problem to update once every few weeks or longer. A webcomic, though, is usually expected to update at least once a week. Though I do read a fair few that update on a very irregular basis - less so then you do.
So those are some general sort of pointers. You’ll need to ask questions before I can actually go into detail on anything you want to know. Just make sure that you consider the lifetime of your comic and various things like voting incentives for Top Web Comics, and the overall time you can spend keeping the web comic up to date and so on.
Hope that helps!
