I’ve been observing the various spaces online for comics now for some time. I wont pretend to have the answers, but I have to take a shot and I’ve decided that chat, and other community driven elements, are going to be what attracts the kind of readership I’m looking for.

It’s not enough to have a website with your portfolio, comics, store. Chances are people will go there once, take a quick look, then bounce – never to return. If you’re going to have a site you should think of it more as a platform for offering engagement and cultivating difficult to break interrelationships. You want a place where people can really escape to, find like-minded people, share, and be merry.

I really despise the other platforms and their policies. So if I build my site around CHAT, and develop it from that central focus, perhaps I have a chance at taking those who visit and having them stay a while.