This has been a whirlwind of a week so far for my webcomic The Fantasy Book Club on Webtoon. Ive been getting pretty close to hitting 1k subs for a while now after two years of weekly posting and marketing online and at conventions. I was so proud when I got to 920 subscribers all on my own with no features on Webtoons app at all.
Which within the first night put me over 1k and officially graduated from Hidden Gems.
But before I could even finish my celebratory art to mark the occasion I far exceeded what I thought a feature like this would do.
1400 subscribers?!? It’s only Wednesday! There’s still 4 days left before the feature ends. And my page views have more than doubled last months numbers entirely. I— I’m flabbergasted to be honest.
I think I spent so long pushing and feeling like I wasn’t getting anywhere that I kinda thought… maybe it was me? I love my comic and my characters. In fact I’m kind of obsessed with it. But I had resigned myself to the idea that maybe it just didn’t have the broad appeal that it needed to be successful. And that was ok! I wanted to tell this story whether people wanted to read it or not.
But apparently they do want to read it?! Not just subscribe to and never read, people are devouring all 100 episodes and waiting for more! WHAT?
This is going to take me a bit of time to wrap my head around completely but for right now all I can be is grateful.