I always try and avoid talking numbers and figures of readers on this blog. Partly because I think a web-comic should be judge on artwork and content alone, not whether it’s in style that week online or not. And partly because I imagine it wouldn’t really be a very interesting subject for anyone reading this blog. Plus as we all know, just because something’s popular, doesn’t actually mean it’s any good. But that said, I did think today I’d share this screen grab below of Babayka-Lives audience stat showing readership from around the world. I am very lucky in that the comic does seem to attract readers from near-and-far, and for anyone wondering, here’s what Babayka-Lives worldwide readership looks like. By far, the biggest audience of readers can be found in the Untied States. I guess that’s probably no surprise, as they are the biggest English-languages speaking country in the world. They’re also a country big on both horror and comics. I’m guessing America are probably most web-comic’s biggest readership audience. Second and third place seems to be an ongoing battle right now between the Untied Kingdom (my home country, if you were wondering) and the Philippines (who are apparently big into web-comics at the moment.) Right now it’s the UK holding second position, but up until recently, it’s been the Philippines. It’s almost neck-and-neck at the moment. Honourable mentions should also go to readers from Canada, Russia, France, Germany, Indonesia, Australia and many others. It’s very flattering to know people are tuning in from around the world to follow this web-series. With so many, many web-comics out there right now competing for reader’s attentions, it is nice to know people are following this web-series and wanting to know where this series is going (not to mention I probably lose a vast amount of readers on account of I don’t draw a web-comic that’s either Manga-y or Cartoon-y, like 99% of all modern web-comics currently. Like with Superhero comics dominating floppy comic-books in the last century, you do feel a bit left out right now in web-comics if you’re not a drawing a series that’s heavily Anime inspired, bright colours, and wacky with everyone having big cartoon eyes… Not that I’m against any of those things, you understand, but it’s pretty clear that’s not really where my artwork’s coming from.) So it’s nice to know it turns out there is an audience for what I do. Not being a colourful manga\cartoon inspired web-comic, it can also mean it’s hard to get any love from media\web-comic websites (plus being a horror web-comic can bring out the skittish in some reviewers, sadly.) So a big thank you to those readers that recommend Babayka-Lives to other people, either online, or in person. It truly is a massive help when readers (from wherever you are across the globe) show this web-comic some love. Just recommending Babayka-Lives to a friend, or saying a few kind words about it and posting a link on Blogs\Facebook\Twitter\Forums is such a massive help.
It’s only recently I’ve really began to see where this web-series can start to go over the next couple of years. While Brides Of Babayka will be coming to an end very soon, I do have plenty of plans for these characters, have no fear. I guess it will come down to whether readers are interested in seeing future adventures of The Brides Of Babayka, and Babayka himself (when he finally bloody turns up) when Book one is finished or not. I hope people will.
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