How to Add Infinite Scroll to your Webcomic Archive

If you are looking to keep your readers engaged with your comic archive, Toocheke’s infinite scroll feature may just be the ticket for you! This feature eliminates the need for paging through your comics by clicking navigation buttons(first, previous, next, latest). Instead, the comic posts load up on the homepage as the reader scrolls down […]

Comments, Views, Likes and Bookmarking

Toocheke makes it super easy to add some cool features for consuming your comic in a fun way! Some of the features include: Commenting which allows readers to engage with the creator or with each other. A ‘like’ feature which allows your visitors to show their love for their favorite comics. Bookmarking which comes in […]

Series, Chapters & Collections

So, what is the difference between series, chapters and collections in the Toocheke WordPress theme? Collections and chapters are similar in that they are both ideal for categorizing comic posts for a single comic title. The differences between the two, comes down to the following: Comic navigation – once a reader clicks on a chapter, […]

Bilingual Webcomics

If you are a comic creator that publishes a bilingual comic, Toocheke offers the ability to post comics in two languages. With the help of this tutorial, I will show you how you can accomplish that in only a few simple steps. Login to your WordPress admin dashboard. Go to: Toocheke > Add New Comic […]

How to Post Both a Traditional and Webtoon Version of Your Webcomic

One great feature of the Toocheke theme, is that it gives you the ability to publish both a traditionally formatted and a webtoon formatted comic within the same post. So, why would you as a webcomic creator want to do that? It’s all about creating a ‘Responsive Webcomic’ which we covered here. If you are […]

How to Make Money from Your Webcomic

Top Ten Ways To Earn a Living as an Online Cartoonist Those who enter into the realm of creating webcomics fall into one of two camps: passionate hobbyists or those who wish to make a career as cartoonists. If you fall into the later camp, the question you ask is how exactly does one go […]

How to Setup an Online Store on Your WordPress Webcomic Website with WooCommerce

Are you looking to sell print and digital collections of your comic? Maybe you wish to sell merchandise like t-shirts, posters, mugs, stickers etc. If you have a WordPress website, you can setup your very own shopping cart store, and in just a few steps! The following tutorial will give you a step-by-step breakdown of […]

How to Setup a Paywall for Your WordPress Webcomic Website with Patreon

There comes a point and time when you as a comic creator may want to monetize and make money from your webcomic. This is assuming you have a decent sized backlog of comics already published and you have generated a large rabid following. One of the ways you can do that is buy setting up […]

Traditional/Horizontal Comic Format Vs Webtoon/Infinite Scroll/Vertical Comic Format

When figuring out the layout for a webcomic, creators are often faced with the question: ‘Should I design it with the old school horizontal layout or the modern vertical(webtoon) layout?’ Short answer is both. Both layouts have their pros and cons depending on which devices the comic is being viewed from. If you want to […]

Responsive Webcomics – The New Age of Online Comics!

2020 marked a decade of “Responsive web design”, a term coined by Ethan Marcotte. Responsive web design is an approach to designing websites, so that a web page “responds to” or resizes itself depending on the type of device it is being seen through. That could be on a large desktop computer monitor, a laptop […]

Importing Your Comics From Comic Easel/ComicPress Into Toocheke

So,you are a webcomic creator with a WordPress site already up using either a combination of both Comic Easel and ComicPress or just Comic Easel with your preferred theme. You have hundreds, maybe even thousands of comics in your archive and would like to make the switch to Toocheke. Is that possible? Will I be […]

Where Should I Host My Webcomic/Webtoon?

LINE Webtoon? Tapas? Instagram? Facebook? Tumblr? Reddit? Hiveworks? Self-Hosted? WordPress? When considering where to publish a comic, creators are often faced with a daunting question; what is the best platform for hosting my webcomic? Where I can I get maximum exposure for new readers to my comic. This post will try and delve into the […]

How to Promote and Drive Traffic to Your Webcomic

Top 13 Ways You Can Gain and Sustain New Readers. You have launched your brand new webcomic, you either self-host it, or maybe you have it hosted on one of the popular webtoon publishing portals (LINE Webtoon or Tapas), now how do you get new readers to become adoring fans of your comic? This article […]

How to Make a Webcomic Website With WordPress

Do you want to create a website for your new webcomic with WordPress? Looking to make use of the popular webtoon/vertical scrolling format? Are you looking to replicate the same model popularized by websites such as LINE Webtoon and Tapas? In this tutorial, I will show you how to create you very own webtoon styled […]