Ryan Estrada

I joined PlusGoog like I’ve done with every social network. With a lot of eye-rolling and thoughts of “why do I need this?” But I noticed one unintended feature that may make this the best place for cartoonists.

^ All you have to do to add a multi-page comic, or an entire graphic novel to G+ is drag the pages into your photos tab. Google will order them and place them in a viewer for you.

^ Then, you can choose who can see it. Is it a new release you want to show everyone? A work in progress you want feedback from friends on? A secret comic for subscribers or Kickstarter donors? It’s super easy to set up!

^ Here is what the people you’ve shared will see. They just have to click on the first page to start reading.

^ They can read the whole comic in a great viewer. Simple, clean, fast loading, easy to read, comment, and share. I’ve stopped directing people there to my site, because this viewer is better. And you can still put your blog info, links, and merch info down in the caption box!

Plus: Lots of new people are showing up, and they’re hungry for content! I had 500 shares the other day. Almost a thousand new readers who are new to my work in a few hours.

And with the sharing circles, I can take old comics that my readers are sick of, and show them to just the new readers. Just this morning my old zuda comic started going viral! Cartoonists, get on this!