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[Archangel]

This is for my Business Management schoolwork. I would appreciate it very much if you fill out this survey. Thank you.

Age:

Sex: Male/Female

On average, how much time do you spend on the Internet each day?

Do you read web comics? Yes/No

If so, how frequently?            Sometimes      Often      Every day

What genre do you like the best?         Sci-Fi      Fantasy       Romance      Horror        Adventure      Other (please specify)

Do you buy comic books*?

Where do you buy them?   Shops        Online        Conventions        Other (please specify)

Would you be willing to buy them online if you don't already?

Would you be willing to subscribe to a web comic?

How to you find new web comics to read?

* Note that by comic book, I mean books of web comics, like Schlock Mercenary.

I need only eighteen responses and the questions are really easy, so please fill this out.

[Vector]

Age: 20

Sex: Male/Female

On average, how much time do you spend on the Internet each day?

I'm not sure.  Probably two or three hours, right now.  It used to be a lot more, and I think it may become a lot less.

Do you read web comics? Yes/No

If so, how frequently?            Sometimes      Often      Every day

What genre do you like the best?         Sci-Fi      Fantasy       Romance      Horror        Adventure      Other (please specify)

I don't have a particular preference.  Mostly, I say "was this told well?" and if it was, then I liked it.  Out of the above genres, though, I suppose adventure fits best for what I tend to prefer.

Do you buy comic books*?

No.

Would you be willing to buy them online if you don't already?

I don't think so.  I don't like most webcomics that much, actually.  They're good for a bit of intellectual novelty, but there is very seldom something so well-written that I'd want to read the entire thing again and again.

Would you be willing to subscribe to a web comic?

Probably not.  I like to check myself, and I dislike having my inbox filled with reminders.

How to you find new web comics to read?

Typically through friends, or links on webcomics I already like.

[MrWiggles]

Age: 23

Sex: Male/Female

On average, how much time do you spend on the Internet each day? Erhm. 10 hrs, I guess since I'm unemployment.

Do you read web comics? Yes/No

If so, how frequently?            Sometimes      Often      Every day

What genre do you like the best?        Sci-Fi      Fantasy       Romance      Horror        Adventure      Other (please specify)

Do you buy comic books*? No

Where do you buy them?   Shops        Online        Conventions        Other (please specify)

Would you be willing to buy them online if you don't already? Possibly.

Would you be willing to subscribe to a web comic? In what sense?

How to you find new web comics to read? Well first, I buy a chicken. Then I bath it in olive oil then gut it, and I read the entrails. Once that fails, I sometime go look at the comic web hosting sites and through my friends. Rarely do I pick up a new web comic.

* Note that by comic book, I mean books of web comics, like Schlock Mercenary.

I need only eighteen responses and the questions are really easy, so please fill this out.

[Cheeetar]

Age: 15

Sex: Male

On average, how much time do you spend on the Internet each day? 3/4 hours, not including time spent on stuff like TF2.

Do you read web comics? Yes

If so, how frequently?  Every day

What genre do you like the best?   I have no preferred genre, but I suppose I read Fantasy more often than others.

Do you buy comic books*? No

Where do you buy them?  N/A

Would you be willing to buy them online if you don't already? No

Would you be willing to subscribe to a web comic? I would neither sign up for a newsletter nor pay for regular updates.

How to you find new web comics to read? Word of mouth/word of typing things on a keyboard

[warhammer651]

Age: 16

Sex: Male

On average, how much time do you spend on the Internet each day?         About 4 Hours

Do you read web comics? Yes

If so, how frequently?              Every day

What genre do you like the best?            Adventure   

Do you buy comic books*?      No

Would you be willing to buy them online if you don't already?       Depends on the Comic

Would you be willing to subscribe to a web comic?       Depends on the comic

How to you find new web comics to read?             Through friends and forums

[Heron TSG]

Age: 15

Sex: Male/Female

On average, how much time do you spend on the Internet each day? 6 hours

Do you read web comics? Yes/No

If so, how frequently?            Sometimes      Often      Every day

What genre do you like the best?         Sci-Fi      Fantasy       Romance      Horror        Adventure      Other (please specify)

Do you buy comic books*? No.

Where do you buy them?   Shops        Online        Conventions        Other (please specify)

Would you be willing to buy them online if you don't already? No.

Would you be willing to subscribe to a web comic? Not if I had to pay.

How to you find new web comics to read? Through the recommendations of my compatriots

I need only eighteen responses and the questions are really easy, so please fill this out.
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[fenrif]

Age: 24

Sex: Male

On average, how much time do you spend on the Internet each day?

four or five hours. Usually I have my laptop open if I'm doing something else though.

Do you read web comics? Yes

If so, how frequently?            Sometimes

What genre do you like the best?   comedy

Do you buy comic books*? No
 

Would you be willing to buy them online if you don't already? No

Would you be willing to subscribe to a web comic? No

How to you find new web comics to read? Friends suggesting them to me.

[ein]

Age: 15

Sex: Male

On average, how much time do you spend on the Internet each day? Weekdays: 3 hours; Weekends: 10 hours

Do you read web comics? Yes

If so, how frequently? Sometimes

What genre do you like the best? No specific genre, but I probably read more sciffy and romance than anything else.

Do you buy comic books*? No

Where do you buy them? N/A

Would you be willing to buy them online if you don't already? If I had the money to spend.

Would you be willing to subscribe to a web comic? No, I prefer bookmarking and checking when I feel like it.

How to you find new web comics to read? Links, including advertisements, then I start reading through the archive. If I like it, it's bookmarked and checked occasionally.

[Nilocy]

Age: 19 (20 in like a month)

Sex: Male

On average, how much time do you spend on the Internet each day? At least 3 to 4 hours. If you count online computer games then I'd say 5 or 6.

Do you read web comics? Yes

If so, how frequently?  Often 

What genre do you like the best?    Sci-Fi

Do you buy comic books*?

Where do you buy them?   Shops

Would you be willing to buy them online if you don't already? Yes

Would you be willing to subscribe to a web comic? No

How to you find new web comics to read? Mostly through peer's.

[Zangi]

Age: 25?

Sex: Male/Female

On average, how much time do you spend on the Internet each day?  Depends, at least 5?

Do you read web comics? Yes/No

If so, how frequently?            Sometimes      Often      Every day  Whenever I'm looking for something to do.

What genre do you like the best?         Sci-Fi      Fantasy       Romance      Horror        Adventure      Other (please specify)

Do you buy comic books*? No

Where do you buy them?   Shops        Online        Conventions        Other (please specify)

Would you be willing to buy them online if you don't already? Most likely not.

Would you be willing to subscribe to a web comic? No

How to you find new web comics to read? References by current web comics and random peoples/places... when I am really looking to procrastinate.

* Note that by comic book, I mean books of web comics, like Schlock Mercenary.

[LeoLeonardoIII]

Age: 26

Sex: Male

Internet Time: 3 hrs

Do you read web comics? Yes

Frequency: Every day

Genre: Not romance, not "people hanging around playing video games"

Buy comic books: No

Where buy comic books? I don't buy them.

Willing to buy online? No

Subscribe web comic? Hell no, never, and will never buy merch either

How find webcomics? Banners on other webcomics, friend recommendations. But never click on insidious, tricky, automatically activated, or mouseover-reactive banners and if I see a banner like that I put that site on my personal blacklist. Same for banners with stupid eye-catchers like the dancing morons.

[Grek]

Doing a convenience sample on a biased population and with such a tiny sample size is a terrible, terrible idea. With that said, here you go:

38, Male, 3 hrs, yes, Often, Romance, No, na, no, links from ones I read now.

[MrWiggles]

How are we a biased source?

[Strife26]

18
Male
I'll average it at three, with nights at work and the like.
Yes
Everyday
Other: Various genres (2 Scifi, 2 fantasy, 1 kinda romance, 4 other)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Schlock, Darth and Droids, Order of the Stick, Erfworld, Shortpacked, SMBC, xkcd, The Whiteboard, and Dr Mcninja

Yes
Online
NA
Not if it cost anything.
TV tropes, usually.



If the poll needs a random sampling, 18 responses from an indie gaming forum isn't very random. I'd expect considerably higher web comic readership here, especially considering that many of us are both net savvy, disillusioned with big-box companies (be they game or the comic syndicate), and prone to support lone artists.

[Muz]

Age: 20

Sex: Female

On average, how much time do you spend on the Internet each day? 8 hours

Do you read web comics? Yes

If so, how frequently?            Sometimes

What genre do you like the best?         Comedy

Do you buy comic books*?     Rarely

Where do you buy them?   Shops=

Would you be willing to buy them online if you don't already?            No

Would you be willing to subscribe to a web comic?          Yes

How to you find new web comics to read?     Friend recommendations and links to random comics