5 fun facts about your comic/Novels

Headypigeon4180 2023-10-07 16:23:56 UTC #1

Hi I thought this might be a fun thread to make. Post 5 fun facts about your comic/Novel.

Hawk and Flo Adventures on Tapas is at 2,400 likes since Joining in February of this year. My Reddit Handle has 2,300 total Karma and is a year older.
Hawk and Flo Adventures and Thirley Peak originally started from the same script. The stories' name was the Sweet Shop Invasion.
Phantom Force 3000 my third comic series is slated for an April 2024 release date. The exact day I haven't planned just the month. It will be about an artifact called 'The gem of Mundania'
My first series Hawk and Flo Adventures initially failed on the first site it was posted on, but found success when mirrored elsewhere. It's a big reason why I make the 'I'm on so many different sites' threads and do my best to let people know about all the different options available.
The first storyline for Hawk and Flo Adventures went through multiple rewrites before it was published. One of the attempts 'Invasion Day' ended up becoming a later storyline in the series. It was considered a strong episode but didn't do a good job starting things off.

Bonus fact: Thirley Peak and MK_Wizard's Psychoborg both launched on August 1st of this year. MK wanted to launch on August 1st so I decided to follow suit ^^

Here's me if anyone's interested ^^

and here's Psychoborg by MK_Wizard awesome comic

Aeneas1 2023-10-07 17:05:38 UTC #2

Nixvir has nearly 180 subscribers, over 10K views and nearly 800 likes.
Nixvir is inspired by English fantasy novels such as Narnia and Wind in the Willows.
It has been adapted into an audio drama, with more content to follow.
It deconstructs the idea of the talking, living snowman.
It is quite ridiculous.

sleepykuya 2023-10-07 17:05:54 UTC #3

Oooooh this is a fun thread!!

1) The Heart Dove is real, and it's based on a bleeding-heart dove found in parts of the Philippines.

2) It started as an internal ramble interview-type thing before I realized that it was about ~20k words, so I decided to build up my first draft from there.

3) I decided to post it on both Scribblehub and Tapas, and it seems to be doing better here.

4) I wanted to give my characters 'weird' uncommon names, inspired by the way my family is named. Basically, if it sounds good, it's a name! Libum comes from a type of Roman cake that can be used as a sacrificial offering.

5) Food plays an important part. Because I like to cook, I just decided to add a bunch of dishes to the story. Libum's relationship with food is very important.

2DLenzy 2023-10-07 17:10:37 UTC #4

Hi all!
Thought I'd jump in on the fun.

Title of Friar Chicken was based on me confusing fryers with friars, back in 2020, i believe. Sometimes mostakes can turn into something fun and creative!
The style/genre was originally meant to be like a funny sunday newspaper series, but it got changed as I was drafting the overall arc of the story to include more drama with comedy like a Full House kind of thing. Also wanted to challenge my style a lot more.
Humans were not part of the original story. They were drawn awfully at the start, as it was my first time trying out digital drawing and I was going to phase them out of the story to focus on chickens only. That changed when I had an appifiny concerning the overall theming (wont say any more cause its a secret). The "Tryons" arc was sorta the turning point for both the story and my skills.
Almost every character in the series has a name that means something, whether its their role/purpose, personality, or relates to chickens. For example, Alec Tryon was taken from the Greek myth of Alectryon, the man who was punished to change into a rooster. Also, Alec means fool, which I didnt catch at the beginning, but it suits him well. Tryon is also close to Tyson, poultry related, which was intentional. Might do a dump on the names later on.
The Four Orders of the Roost are based loosely on a few major religions. The White Order, in the broadest sense, resembles Catholic/Christian worldviews. Halaka, the Mother Hen and matriarchal god of the Whites, bears some resemblance to Mother Mary, though some creative licensing and "chickenology" was intertwined, and in a tasteful, parody manner I'm hoping. The other three hadnt been explored yet, but I will say the Reds, who u meet in the next year, are more warrior oriented. (I'm fascinated with myth, religion, and occult, so if anyone wants to throw in some facts/practices/views, I would love to explore them and possibly include them in the comic if I can)

(6) Comic's also on Comicfury (easier to read on pc as i'm learning), and Webtoons(ugh, barren wasteland). Im a bit scared of Reddit and Instagram, but thanks to the kind supporters here, I feel like giving it a shot <3. Might be a day before u see a post.

And please, don't feel like u have to sub for me to sub back. Just reach out in comments and profile, let me know you're there and I'll give your work a genuine look and sub (if I remember to, im ADD af)

Gladoilus 2023-10-07 17:45:47 UTC #5

5 fact about my charter
Yua is a lesbian
Poki is taking the subject at the qualification level at degree when he is 16
hady least favoured food is omelet and she like soft things
Jun like sport
the lighting is broken on the Island on that hady and poki and Jun grown up and I only realised 40 pages in and so I am not changing it

ThunderChicken 2023-10-07 17:59:16 UTC #6

I'll play!

1: Wild Nights, Hot and Crazy Days is based on a true story. Every person, every event, is real. Only names have been changed to protect the innocent (and the guilty).

2: The story was originally conceived way the hell back in the mid 90's as a comic series. It was going to be the story of myself and my friends doing stupid teenager stuff and was not intended to be as emotionally heavy as the final version is. Also, as I was still deep in the closet back then it had absolutely zero LGBTQ content.

Here is an example of the original cartoon, drawn on paper (you can just make out the thumbtack marks in the corners from when I had it stuck to my bedroom wall). Over the years the drawing suffered water damage, but the text reads "Y'know, Carmen, that motor is really working good. I can barely hear it!" - as with everything else, this really happened. I was towing Dale across the lake and the rope broke. I didn't realize it until I got to the other side and discovered Dale and the barge missing. He was adrift in the middle of the lake:

3: The story gets its name from a song by Judas Priest, off their 1986 album called Turbo. It is an obscure song, but it's one of my favourites. It was my anthem as a teen. Every time I read the title I think of the verse "Well deep down inside, you feel your temperature rise, for those WILD NIGHTS! HOT AND CRAZY DAYS!"

The song:

4: After a near 30 year slumber the series was revived when I discovered Tapas and saw all the awesome indy art and writing. I had planned on making it a comic series but the outline became so large it became a novel. Some day I will do a comic based on the novel.

5: WNHCD is currently at 93 subscribers. When I first started publishing it I was new at this and uploaded the whole damned thing very quickly (sometimes 2-3 updates a day!). The full story is now up on Tapas. This makes for good binge reading but isn't really good for getting subs because it doesn't continually update anymore. I do still do occasional "Side Quests", short stories that got omitted from the original novel but the main story is finished.

The obligatory link to the series:

JenG_artist 2023-10-07 19:59:13 UTC #7

Fun thread! Here's mine

1) Rufus and Mort are based on two real-life Norwegian Forest cats, and that's why the very long and fluffy coats and straight noses.

2) I'm about to introduce a new friend based on my newly-rescued cat Look out for (more) very fuzzy cheeks!

3) The comics started as one-liners used as away messages (remember those days?) to share a smile with a loved one who was away. From there, the one-liners kept occurring to us. As the (literal) resident artist, I just started drawing them.

4) The other creative mind behind Rufus and Mort is a family member. We finish each other's thoughts on the comic.

5) Our humor is heavily influenced by Kliban. We love the absurd.

Thanks for reading! I've only just started on tapas, but posting twice a week here: https://tapas.io/series/Rufus-and-Mort

Vikthetoonaddict 2023-10-07 20:03:26 UTC #8

Oooo, I like this!

1). The Blue Fedora takes inspo from Sin City, the Spirit, and Dick Tracy (with a lil Green Hornet thrown in)

2) The Blue Fedora went through a few designs for a male sidekick/driver, but the very first version was a vampire-type mutant based on Orlock. (I like Otto a LOT better, though)

3) I started the concept for this series as a college freshman. (It was officially published in 2018, though, and that version was a bit of a dumpster fire 🤣).

4) This series was originally done on the cheap art apps I had on my old device before I figured out layers and shading. The original colors were waaaaaay too flat and saturated. I was using marker brushes and comic-sans lookalike font

5) Blue Fedora went through a ton of rewrites, and I even took a break for a while, but I'm happy where it is. Several characters have been changed or taken out, such as Crystal's sister, a detective named Claire, and Crystal's Aunt Vikki (who I've rewritten to be her mom).

julias_art_universe 2023-10-07 20:27:45 UTC #9

Oki here you are

I came up with the idea for "My Matchmaker From Hell" in high school while on a short winter trip. the series was also planned to be a novel back then
Sorin wasn't originally an angry character. Rather he was calm and mature in the original
Sorin has over 50 concept designs while Zora was designed almost instantly
I drew 5 drafts of the comic before making the version that would be posted
Zora was made up a month before Sorin as a joke character that I'd "never use" (yeah that aged well haha

LWriter 2023-10-07 20:56:44 UTC #10

Gonna do one for Frontier-0 & one for Santa Fae ^^

FRONTIER-0

1) I based the main villain, Kaiser Moray, on my best friend, who voiced him on the animated pilot, and remains the closest to a real life pirate I know ‍️

2) Captain Lily is bisexual, something I hadn’t planned on at first, but realized how much I liked the idea of her Calavera together and so I started to ship them

3) I had made Dr. Acro’s species, the Mantidians, non-binary mistakenly thinking all ants were genderless except for a Queen, then later learned after having written it that Ants do have males, made just to mate with the Queen, and the workers ants were female. Wish I had known that beforehand

4) The name of the main spaceship is The Uju Kanu, because originally it was just called “The Space Canoe”, but because Captain Lily is Korean, called it that in her language. 🛶

5) In the earliest version of the story, Astor Roy was gonna be the Captain & main character, but the idea of Lily as this badass humorous woman Captain grew in my head, and suddenly loved the idea of Astor’s journey not becoming top dog, but finding someone who appreciates him in Lily and wanting to live for that Captain, which I feel it’s usually the other way around for men and women roles. ‍️

SANTA FAE

1) The main characters, Sherry & Mort, were named after my favorite sitcom Frasier, because that’s what the brothers would prefer to drink, Sherry & Port I only changed the latter slightly to Mort cause it then became also a play on the character’s status.

2) Smaug is my favorite dragon, and LOTR was obviously a huge influence for me, so one of the first images I had in my head for this story was of a dragon like Smaug sitting a top his hoard of gold…and just being like someone’s boss lol. That became The Chief

3) At one point, I did consider making Sherry & Mort a couple, but again, it felt like the typical trope, even in reverse, of a character being fueled by the loss of fridging. I thought of Mort as Sherry’s first and only friend, the only one who saw her & treated her with kindness, and how much more that would rip apart someone. Not all love has to be romantic, and Sherry had know very lil of it in her long life where only Mort had been present for all of it, that seemed more heart wrenching.

4) Orras is not the main villain, but he’s the one whose perspective I decided to explore because he really became my favorite in many ways. A character who had money but no power, and whose villainy came from trying to give it to everyone (which is the common theme of the main villain as well) but unlike Deadbone, Orras isn’t a monster, just someone with a mean streak who got tired of being told he wasn’t as good as the high born elves. I found that a very unique and more relatable POV from the other side.

5) The core idea of Santa Fae was that magic was lent an unlimited resource like in 90% of all fantasy stories. Here it became the main currency of the Fae society, even above money, to explore a commentary on wealth and how a very small number wielding it is not a good thing. It’s what creates our villains and conflict in the story.

NetherSlayer 2023-10-07 21:37:38 UTC #11

My current ongoing webnovel is Spiral Knights: Project R. There's quite a few fun tidbits behind the scenes, but the 5 I want to share the most are:

It's based on the MMORPG by the same name, Spiral Knights, but while it follows many of the same checkpoints in the story from the game, I strive to make my novel as unique and a very different experience compared to the game.
Because it's a video game that only got limited updates, it really only looked at very specific aspects of the world to build, so I've built much of the world myself. That said, many missions are similar to the game, but I've made sure that everything gets a twist!
The majority of my characters that are not based on NPCs from the game are instead based on actual players that I got to know during my 1000+ hours playing. Their armor/outfits and weapons are based on what I recall them using the most as well!
My current webnovel is what I consider to be at least the third book in the series; I wrote a bit of book one a couple years ago, and this summer decided to pick up where I felt I should have been in my writing despite not actually having written any of the novel in so long. This is in large part because of my brother, who was there to enjoy the game along the way with me, and also because I wanted to write what I felt would be the most fun and the (currently) most thought out part of my series.
My favorite NPC in the game just exudes a commanding presence, but he is only ever talked to a handful of times throughout the game, so he's an example of just one character in my novel that I plan on writing a ton about. There's just so much of the ingame universe I wish to explore, from the world it takes place in to the characters that get little to no time of day in the original game. I wish to remediate this by writing everything out myself, but after 100 pages into this book, I can safely say I'm not even half way done with what I have planned for it, to say nothing of books one and two that I've yet to write, and the others that will eventually follow.
Getting so far in my novel has gotten me to commission a piece of art for the first time! It was a worthwhile investment into bringing an impactful visualization to one of my characters, and I plan on making commissions for the rest of the main characters.

If you're interested, here's the link to my story:

king-goldfish 2023-10-07 22:23:05 UTC #12

First of all, thanks for bringing up mirroring @Headypigeon4180. I've been meaning to do that and keep waffling about it, but this is gonna give me the swift kick in the pants I needed to do it.

Anyway, 5 fun facts about Big Dead Energy:

The title started out as a placeholder I was using because I thought it was funny. I promised my beta reader I was going to find a different, more serious title, but despite having a list of about fifty candidates, I never found a better one. So, BDE it is. I feel like the incongruence of the cover and the title sets you up for the tonal whiplash that this novel can be.
All the names are Slavic, and there are a lot of Slavic elements, but the setting is not based on any real Slavic country. The locales are based on places all over the world. The flora, fauna, geography, and climate of Veliko are based more on Central Texas than anywhere else.
The Slavic influence is mostly because I have a degree in Russian Lit. I really like the levels of formality you get built into Slavic names, and the rules about who can address whom by what name really help convey the rigid hierarchies of volshebnik society. Iyu does not have a Slavic name because I named him before I named anyone else or built out much of the world. I built his backstory around his incongruous name rather than the other way around.
I wrote BDE and its sequel (which also has a completed draft, though I'm still tinkering with some things in it) in about a year total, no break between drafts. That's the fastest I've ever completed a novel, which is even more remarkable when you consider that this is by far the longest pair of novels I've ever written. Together, they're 500,000 words. Brevity may be the soul of wit, but long-windedness is the soul of... me. No, I promise, lots of stuff happens! It's not all blathering and navel-gazing.
The names and lots of food and other cultural elements are Slavic, but I started taking Chinese classes while I was writing it, so you can find a lot of Chinese influences in the story, too. It's a happy coincidence that both cultures are very into tea. Everyone in this story drinks tea constantly—except for the main character, who hates tea.

MK_Wizard 2023-10-07 22:31:28 UTC #13

1- It was originally a He-Man 2002 fanfic based on an episode that I felt wasted a chance at doing something different in He-Man lore and developing its characters. I have been scripting Psychoborg since before my first webcomic (like I said, it was a fanfic first) and have been refining it again and again to get it where it is now.

2- Psychoborg actually takes place in my editor's universe not mine and follows its laws of magic, physics and more. This universe is called the Twistverse. In fact, the planet Zeal has made a cameo in one of his comics.

3- Psychoborg is the first and so far only webcomic that will have a sequel. While I have come to realize that like Walt Disney, I don't like doing sequels because I would rather divert my energy towards new projects, this one is the exception because like all things in the Twistverse, Psychoborg is a story that serves as a piece of a much larger puzzle kind of like how the MCU (when it was good) did.

4- It's also my first adult series, but it definitely won't be my last. The next comic after will also be for adults. The one after that will be more lighthearted and it will be food themed like Cupcake War Machine was.

5- There are elves in my story, but they aren't all the same. You have Star Elves (the type Rebecca is) whose culture and society mirrors Judaism, Sun Elves (the type the Imperial family of Luminous are) whose culture mirrors ancient Egypt and has hints of the USA, and Moon Elves (the type Castor is) whose culture mirrors Great Britain and Christianity specifically Catholicism.

abigaillmartin 2023-10-07 23:06:07 UTC #14

The comic takes place between the years 1896 to 1898.
It takes place in Southeast England. In the fictional seaside town of Smelton. Abundant in copper in the cliff side.
Elsie was influenced by several works “War of the Worlds,” the novels and adaptations of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Doctor Jekkel and Mister Hyde and heavily influenced by the Canadian mystery show “Murdoch Mysteries”
Elsie, Rosemary and Roy are English and Ernest is Irish.
The comic was inspired by a painting by Claude Monet. “Lady With a Parasol” I then came up with the concept of “Steampunk Superhero” I worked on it ever since.

Nugapug 2023-10-07 23:18:45 UTC #15

Here's some fun facts.

1) Fourthly Puzzled was originally released as something a little different back in November 2020, which I made 8 webcomics on Deviantart in the span of a couple months, and the font was comic sans, but I've been working through some more concepts and redesigning, until it became the Fourthly Puzzled as we know today.

2) Originally my first webcomic series was Wild Critters Dream, but them when I looked back into it, but then I had this thought that it wasn't working out, as it did feature a band with anthropomorphic animals from the first comic, but I moved on and went on with two of the webcomics I went with to this very day.

3) Human Yet Hybrid was originally titled Puppy and Pepper, and it features Edwina (Originally named Puppy (A genderswap character I created back in 2017.) and Preston, (Or Pepper has he was and is still referred to as,) And Edwina was originally wasn't a sorcerer in the original story. But then I want to give Edwina a little more of an edge, and change some elements along with adding a best friend Ida.

4) Originally, before I know how to design humans, Fourthly Puzzled was gonna be featured as tiques like how I designed from Human Yet Hybrid's first four comics, and my storytime animations, but I wanna challenge myself and try and design them differently, and turned them into the human beings they are now.

5) Since I have the fascination of mythical creatures of myth and folklore, I wanted to add those kind of elements to Human Yet Hybrid so Edwina can have something to fight off or befriend along her journey.

Fourthly Puzzled

Human Yet Hybrid

Pixei 2023-10-07 23:56:11 UTC #16

BLACK OUT was originally called WHITE OUT, and it was posted on AO3. This is the first iteration of the story, which I actually still have up... > https://archiveofourown.org/works/33140992/chapters/82272961
Once I realized that WHITE OUT was a pretty boring idea, I scrapped it and began revamping it. I realized that Chirin's past was actually more interesting than his "future", so I began brainstorming that concept a bit more. Thus, BLACK OUT was born, and I had initially posted it in AO3. >https://archiveofourown.org/works/43338678/chapters/108941325
Chirin was actually first born as a side character named "Matthew" for a small project I was working on. For some reason, I ended up really getting attached to this character, and this character ended up splitting into Chirin, and another character.
I decided to write BLACK OUT in a playstyle esque style because I wanted to experiement with writing in a faster, more dialogue heavy way. After the positive feedback I got on it, I decided to stick with it. I still think it's a bit weird sometimes, but oh well...
Chirin, the main character, has gone through MANY redesigns... Here's the first time I've ever drawn him...

Now compare that to my most recent drawing of him (3 years difference!!) ...

Basically... He's changed A LOT.

Rai_Muffin 2023-10-08 00:21:20 UTC #17

This sounds like fun!
Been writing mine for a while so it's got a lot of weird history behind it.

1) Most of the characters started life as part of a Dragonball fanfic. Little remains of that connection, though the character Kukui's shapeshifting is because, in her original conception, she went to the same school as Ooolong and Puar.

2) The series was initially much longer and had way more characters. But when I opted to purge the script of a lot of the unnecessary or downright bad ideas, some characters got folded into each other. The character Shu from the latest chapter is a composite of 3 characters; her appearance and name from one, her abilities from another, and her alcoholism and fighting style from a third.

3) I hate drawing feet and struggle with toes, which is why all the shoes look so bulbus.

4) The series was initially called Raiden Legacy, in fact you can find old drafts still under that name. I changed it after it didn't test well to Raikiri, meaning lightning cutter, named after the sword in Japanese mythology and shares it with the clan of mercenaries the story focuses on.
Raiden Legacy still plays a role in the story; Raiden is the name of the energy that gives the characters their powers, and a Raiden Legacy is unique or unusual powers passed down through generations.

5) The series' two main characters initially never met! Fuyumi took the role of main character initially but was going to die halfway through. Natsumi was a lost sister sent to our world for her protection, and the rest of the characters would enrol in her school to protect and train her until they returned to their own world.
Fortunately, I decided that fridging my lead character and swapping her out for a completely different one partway through and turning it into a freaking Isekai plot was too stupid, even by my standards. Ultimately the bond between the sisters is the focus for most of the series, but it's weird when you consider how it used to be.

Bonus 6) Someone on my animation course once asked me if the character Keanu was a self-insert. My response was, "I hope not. I wrote him to be an asshole."

Chapter 13 is currently going up in chunks every 5 days, so please check it out and see if it's your kind of story.

kitschensyngk 2023-10-08 01:51:29 UTC #18

The exterior of Thomas Bowdler Junior High School is similar to the one I went to.
The faculty are all named for actors who played villains in the 1960s Batman TV show. Frank Gorshin's Riddler was my favorite, so I named the principal after him.
Katrina's design (her hat in particular) was inspired by Eudora, a lesser-known character from Peanuts.
I thought about making Terry and Katrina boyfriend and girlfriend when I was ironing out the story. The idea clashed with their characters—Terry is extremely girl-shy and Katrina has a low opinion of the male sex—so it was dropped.
Mike's filmmaking hobby in chapter 10 was based off animator/filmmaker Terry Gilliam. Even the bit about Barbie dolls—in 1965 he produced a photographic comic for a satirical magazine about a man who becomes disturbingly infatuated with a Barbie doll (portrayed by his future Monty Python cohort John Cleese!)

Yangying 2023-10-08 04:38:49 UTC #19

Ok! Here is mine!
1 my story was originally supposed to be steampunk
2 my main character, Emilia, was originally supposed to be a human-like robot
3 the story changed a lot and is a very different story then it originally was supposed to be
4. The First Arc of my story was supposed to be three chapters originally, not two
5. Leo’s Heterochromia was a very random, last minute desicion

If people are interested, I could Show the differences In the designs dor my characters! (In a new topic ofc)

WorldBreakerNovels 2023-10-08 07:12:53 UTC #20

Fun facts? Let's see if I can pull some up!

1 - Jethuun has had multiple changes in his design in his earliest stages.

2 - Technically, Gluttonous is currently in its 3rd volume, but only on its first on TAPAS.

3 - There is a written book of Gluttonous: The Devil's Mistake that was...a mistake...

4 - Our novels are all connected in the same universe, so this battle could actually happen.

5 - Each story intentionally has different art styles, representing that we all see ourselves differently.