Do you need to be great at drawing to make popular comics? I

better than 90% of /ic/, you'll make it champ

Terrific. Delightful. You're a natural!

No, popular comics are all about the writing.

You could have god tier art but still end up with a shit reputation if your writing/release schedule are terrible.

I've lost my patience with webcomics that go on hiatus or shit on their readers due to continuously pushing back release dates or outright abandoning them while giving me fucking essays for excuses or just plain not updating at all for months at a time.

Sure you can write like tolkien and draw like murata but it means fuck all to me if if page 1 through 5 have any sign of an inconsistent schedule.

Stick to your release dates, have a backlog for rainy days and maybe you'll get a following.

>>3107107
The short answer is not really. Obviously don't be absolute shit tier at drawing, but again more important is making a story that people want to read that and what the other guy said, if you don't release consistently you'll get no where.

>>3107180
Forgot to add to the that comment BUT why wouldn't you want to get great at drawing?

Similar to what others have stated. Your drawing is good enough to be in your own web comic. Focus on consistency and writing though, because without those aspects the webcomic is going to flop.

>>3107107
Depends. Look at the past eras of comics, you have mainstream, and you have underground. You could watch the underground cartoonists get better the more they worked, guys like the Freak Brothers and Robert Crumb. Their appeal was everything - the goofiness, the drug references, the edginess of nudity, sex and violence in a comic medium - and the stories.

Look at Hellboy. Not the greatest technical artist, but the stories, characters and style make up for it. Same for Tank Girl.

Do you need to be great? It can't hurt. But the more you do, the better you'll get. I've watched several web comics get better over time, like Sluggy Freelance.

Look at Johnny The Homicidal Maniac. Jonen isn't a technical artist, but his style and his writing made those book epic. Or look at Berkeley Breathed - his first years doing bloom county were rough - his skills at drawing drastically improved over the years. How? By doing a strip, every fucking day, for years.

If you have stories to tell, tell them. Do the best art you can. See what people think. It's the only way to find out.