What the first episode of a webcomic needs to do

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In this video, we look at what makes the first episode of our webcomics work and what our first episode can do to grab readers and keep them reading.
If there a first episode of a webcomic which really grabbed you? Do you want to share the first episode of your webcomic? Put those links in the comments below!
If you're interested in a deeper dive of this topic, I have a video with a panel-by-panel breakdown of the first episode of my webcomic The Middle Age on my Patreon page here: / steveconley
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THE MIDDLE AGE: middleagecomic.com
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2 окт 2021

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Комментарии : 15

@jeaneb 4 месяца назад

"we can post faster than we can hate our work." ha! brilliant.

@danielribeiro9720 2 года назад

I hope your channel grows. You make extremely good content and it goes in depth about things people don't normally talk about(specifically about Webcomics)

@TherealChainsawmaniac 2 года назад

Thanks for the great video, very inspirational and now I don't feel bad for not redoing the first few episodes of my webcomic 😆 keep up the great work and stay awewsome ✌

@theforgottenordergraphicno8052 2 года назад

ehh, I am in the process of redrawing my first chapter and prologue (my webcomic is 10 years old now). I am at peace with this decision despite everyone advising against it. The only set back is it has taken me a crazy amount of time to get it done because the normal updates still continue, so i do a little bit of work on it when i can. But I think it makes sense for me to do this because I will be taking apart this art anyways to convert it to a webtoons format, I might as well make a more engaging and better drawn first chapter that fixes all the story telling mistakes (I can forgive my bad art, but if the story is badly executed then there is no way around it).

@SteveConleyArt 2 года назад

Congrats on 10 years! I’m new to your comic but love the look of it. I’m excited to read it. I totally appreciate going back and making changes - especially after a decade. Jeff Smith’s webcomic Tuki won an Eisner and yet he recently revised it for a new version. my caution is mostly for newer cartoonists who can get caught in that hesitancy loop where the first episode is never good enough to launch. I hope they have your confidence to launch and commitment so that they can look back with a decade of experience and see the revisions they need to make. Or at least love the mistakes and idiosyncrasies they’ve grown out of.

@Dincorta 2 года назад

I did the same thing with mine but I paused the regular updates in favour of the remakes. I’m actually a lot happier with the series now and it’s going in a way more solid direction than it would’ve if I’d let things lie. I think I started it too young.

@ArimoG 2 года назад

These videos are so helpful and insightful! Really appreciate the advice for my own Webtoon comic. I may have to revisit my first episode that I posted because I really like the idea about verbalizing a question for the reader. Can’t wait for more videos!

@ellendallanora7404 2 года назад

What? No one else commented? Just me and the fellow with the weird profile pic? Okay. That's unfair.

@Zarmiera 2 года назад

Do questions need to be legit questions or can they be questions created by the episode progress? I.e. questions that will naturally form in a reader's mind when being presented with a mystery

@SteveConleyArt 2 года назад

That’s a great question. I don’t think the questions need to be explicitly asked but I do think it helps if there’s a character in the story which cares about the mystery and who can make that concern clear to the reader. I think most readers enter a story with a curious mindset and that’s something we can leverage to keep them reading.