How will my comics look like on Substack?
Hi friends, I'm exploring different platforms for sharing my thoughts (writings) and the comics I am creating.
I am hoping to find a "place" where comic-creators can share their work and have multi-way conversations with each other, as well as find other similarly-minded cartoonists.
I was spoiled by a multi-year participation in the great social networking platform for knitters, Ravelry. I wandered away from knitting about 10 years ago. I'm sure that platform and community have undergone many of the changes and pressures that all platforms have endured. In my time there, it offered an open-opportunity set up a special-interest-group (e.g. Knitters who Game; Southwestern Wisconsin sock knitters, etc.). All of these groups were open for all to see. There were no closed/secret clubhouses. Searching for groups with shared interests was easy. Seeing how much current activity was in that group was also easy. Once you had your SIG's arrayed, it was easy to scan the post topics, scan what you had/not read (marked by highlighted/not highlighted) and then mark them all as read-at the post level, or at the SIG level. Consequently it was amazingly easy and efficient to scan for what you'd pinned as of-interest, scan what you had/hadn't read and move on. You could post images (usually of your knitting, or your cats) right in the posts.
I still compare every other platform to Ravelry. I'm still looking.
I now make comics. Here's a sample of some of my work, for you and me to see how they look in this platform.
Here’s a page from Ze and Zo:
Here’s a sample of a vertical scroll comic.
And here’s a comic that was designed for a vertical scroll format-but “chopped into squares” for sharing on Instagram.
What do you think?









