Audience Interaction?

Something incredibly important for webcomics (and their creators) is to be able to, on some level, interact with the audience. Fan mail, fan art, chat-boards, forums, communication of ANY kind is necessary for a successful (or popular, if you prefer) webcomic, because it makes the audience feel they have a stake in your work. Personally, I’ve drawn up forum-goers as Ayenroki and done sketches of stuff they wanted to see, but mostly, I stick with something I call Cast Q/A. Basically, people send in questions and get them answered in comic form. Usually these questions are of the funny persuasion, meant to irritate a character into lashing out in comical violence, but the questions can also be deeper. Here’s my latest one. I usually don’t color them, and gosh did that first panel turn out weird (got lazy on that face there. Bad Kez. Bad.), but they’re always fun to make.

I try to update once a week, but that doesn’t always happen. I know Scribe of LadyStar does a Jessie’s Letters feature, where LadyStar characters answer an email in a blog post, and other comics do something similar also. Anywho, this is something I’ll probably keep doing on my site so long as questions keep coming in. I’ll know when to stop when no one sends any questions, and move on to something else interactive.

-Kez