Webcomics are awesome, right? Right, we can all agree on that. And there are some pretty sweet sites out there aimed specifically at comics, like Smackjeeves, Comicfury, Comic Genesis, Webtoons… The list goes on. The best thing about those sites is that you know the people who are visiting that site are specifically looking for a webcomic, preferably your webcomic.
Now here’s the issue: I am sure a lot of you must have heard about the controversy surrounded Tapas that happened on May 18th (which was exactly a week ago on at the time of writing this). If you haven’t, in short: Tapas had recently updated their Terms of Service and included a very controversial clause. By using their site, they claimed the Right of First Refusal (click that link for more info), which is kind of a Big No No. Eventually Tapas deleted the clause, but a lot of creators have decided to move their comics away from Tapas and host independently, because who’s to say they won’t add something else that stupid again? And who’s to say Smackjeeves won’t wake up tomorrow and add something controversial?
A lot of comic artists went to Tumblr instead. There are a lot of good things about self hosting, your own theme, your own site, if you are willing to pay, your own domain. Problem tho: You don’t have those sweet, sweet people who are already looking for comics. In my experience attracting readers to your comic is horrible on Tumblr. As someone who’s an avid comic reader, the only few times I have seen a comic pass on my dashboard was when that comic was already incredibly popular. It’s going to take ages for a newcomer to get noticed and even those who have been at it for a long time might still get lost in the mess that is Tumblr.
So this blog exists as a type of archive: It’s aim is to collect as many webcomics as that are hosted on tumblr and tag them, using some basic information like art and the synopsis of the comic. Readers will have an easier time looking through the tags and find something they are looking for, and creators will (hopefully) have more people reading their comics. It’s that easy.
In general all comics will be posted except those that purposefully are hateful, doesn’t matter if it’s racist, homophobic, transphobic misogynistic, misandristic, or anything else that could be considered hateful.
With that said, if you have a comic here on tumblr, or love one you feel needs more attention, feel free to submit them. They’ll most likely will get posted.
