Gentlemen, today is a very important date. Exactly five years ago, on January 7, 2017, the first page of the comic was posted. Today, Leaving the Cradle celebrates its first anniversary!
In those five years, the comic has grown from 3 subscribers to, if I estimate all the places where I post it, just a tad shy of a thousand. I've grown as an artist myself - from painfully squeezing out one page a month to being able, albeit with lots of footnotes, to create a page a week, plus the quality of those pages has, in my humble opinion, also grown significantly (although, also in my opinion, still barely beyond amateur scribbling).
Although a thousand readers are probably somewhere around "know to the poster and his mom" levels of popularity by the webcomic standards (Especially considering that this is the result of five years of work, not five months), it's still a very significant achievement for me! I didn't think I could get even a hundred, especially since I don't have any skills in promoting or advertising my art.
Thank you all for subscribing! Let's double all the numbers in the next five years!
Comments (6)
Oh wow! Congrats!
Throw yourself a party :) Buy a cake, intive some friends over (or eat all the cake alone!). You deserve it!
Hey, 1000 subs is something to be really proud of!! If anything, I believe that's much more in line with the usual webcomic readership evolution than the inflated big numbers the popular crowds get
Thanks! Well, inflated values are still a nice juicy dream to have. =F
Though, to be honest, I don't know if I really have a thousand subs. It's the number of "users" that Google Analytics gives me, but I don't exactly know what those really are. If a person opens the page but then closes it and never goes back, is he counted as an user? Stuff like that. Poll from several pages back got only 250 votes on it, so perhaps I'm vastly overestimating my popularity, even.
Poll participation of 250 would actually be fairly in-line with a readership of 1,000, maybe even above average. Most people ignore polls.
Yeah, I've been trying to figure the analytics but ultimately getting the same questions. You can kinda check for returning visitors, bounce rates and time spent on site, and that's cool stuff too!! It's not as direct as seeing "1k subs" on the website, but it's a start