Hi everyone! If you’re all caught up with the comic, you’re probably wondering why there haven’t been any updates for some time. Currently, I’m trying to finish coloring chapter 8. I’d like to get it all typeset as well, that way I can actually sell a proper early release chapter. So hopefully I’ll be posting Chapter 8 at the end of the month, but you’ll be able to buy all 52 pages, or you can get them as a patreon reward!
Also some stuff that’s been going on:
Four Corners is on “Webcomics App” if you want to read it there! Recently been trying to convert the early pages of the comic to scroll format. Which is SUCH an incredibly frustrating thing, but it’s so insanely crazy how well recieved the scroll format is as opposed to the traditional page format. My comic on webtoon has been gaining more subscribers since the early pages have switched. On webtoons, Four Corners reached 900 subscribers, so yay! Once I reach 1000 I can technically qualify for ad revenue, but I’m nowhere near reaching the amount of threshold monthly views (which the threshold is 40,000 and I get like, 2,000, so lmfao) And funnily enough, my comic gets around 20,000 views monthly on Tapas, yet I get around an average of $.50-$1.00 per month from Tapas ad revenue. I have reasons to believe that those who get an incredible amount of views on these platforms still struggle to make some decent change, so I don’t think the ad revenue programs are something creators should hope to rely on. (Excuse me for the marketing talk, however some of you who might be interested in comics/or make comics of your own deserve to know some of those inner details.)
Also in 2021 plans–NEW BOOKS to get printed at an actual printer, and not hand bound in my house like I did last time, haha. The size is almost the same as the previous book, but slightly wider (6″ x 8.25″). The new books will most likely end at either chapter 6 or 7. I’m going to be doing a LOT of formatting for the book, (I feel like I’m doing “comic surgery” on each page to get it to fit properly within the bleed LOL) so I’m not sure how long that will take. I really want to get them printed by the summertime though, so look out for that!!
After I get the book situation sorted out, something I want to do either this year or next year is an actual trailer video for the comic. I could use it for advertising on social media platforms.
I’m also in the process of cleaning up the future scripts and figuring out how many pages there are. I’ve gotten up to chapter 12 out of 16, and so far….there’s so many pages. LOL. From 9-12 is just about 180 pages. I’m assuming the total number of pages left will be in total 300 more to make. WHEW. I kind of want to finish the comic within 3 years, but we’ll see what happens!
This post is a huge wall of text, but I’ve been doing a lot and hopefully you can look forward to new pages soon!
Set in 1995, Yokohama, the comic follows Kazuhiro Tsuchiya, a hot-headed but sensitive teenage gang leader, who teams up with Hideki Yuhara, a mysterious honor student, in order to investigate a threat and save his gang, The Four Corners. However, the closer they get to the truth, the unraveling of the mystery is darker than it appears. How far will they go to rest their case?
[Rating: 16+ for language, violence, mentioning of drugs]
