For what reason are you telling your story?

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Maxiboy became a thing in my head when I was walking home with a friend (at the time we lived together in this ''US college inspired dormitory'' in Brazil, run by one of the most hateful men I've ever known) and he was telling me how when he was a kid he had this super hero he created which was, well, himself and his name was like ''SUPER D'', for his initial and all that.
I was just enchanted by how simples and honest something like this is. I was reading a lot of Silver Age comics and had just read Supergods, the autobiography/super hero treatise where he said what he loved the most about this age, creativity aside, was how authors would sprinkle really personal themes in absurd stories, stuff about identity, fears and whatever. I also love Smallville. I'm obsessed with it.
So I just wanted to do something a little like that: a Silver Age kid Superman, mixed with some 2000's teenage drama.

At the time I was also writing some 3 projects and they all had snarky, messed up protagonists. People who meant well but had some really heavy flaws, so I wanted to write a really upbeat, clean cut hero for a change.
Besides the point that I believe everything we do is a mirror unto itself, the idea of Maxiboy became very important to me as my life kind of spiraled out of control those last years. I find myself revisiting and dealing with childhood memories through some of this stuff sometimes. I also like to give this kid hero the strength I find myself lacking sometimes.
It's personal to me in the way the best super heroes are.

Whoa it's fun to see many reasons here. I'll share mine too!

For me, I got this idea on final week. I used too many sticky notes at my notice board and it suddenly reminds me with something. When I was a senior student in high school, my deskmate and I shared quoted post-it note nearly everyday as our motivation boost. It was just a simple sentence but it's nice to see people reading it.

So I made it a little bit twist and yeah. After discussing with my friend, the plot is done on final week when I'm supposed to revise everything on finals. I'll just hope I'm doing well hahaha

I started mine cause i loved watching mystery stories but always thought i could write a better scenario , then i realized how dificult it is and just continued from habbit.

Of all the episodes of Sanguine I wrote, I think this one highlights my thinking most clearly.

Several conversations with a fellow nerd at my work had me wanting to tell a story wherein humans didn't really matter for a while, and Sanguine is that story. It struck me that there are so many tales wherein angels, demons, gods, vampires, high elves, immortal aliens, or whatever else with active interests and ambitions, but among them all, humans still tend to have the run of the world. There are a hundred ways to handwave that, of course, but it mostly comes down to the trope "Most Writers are Human" .

I'm not immune, really; for all their power, blackbloods still assume human form more often than any other. No one thus far has brought up to me the darker implications blackbloods casually gloss over, but I do hope those who read are picking up on it.

I'm trying to get back into drawing regularly so that I don't lose the skill. Also I just wanted to get the ideas out of my head.

Here is the story:

My story is a mix of things. I always have a battle within myself with one parent telling me to pursue a more practical field and one telling me to be happy and pursue something creative, even if I don't make a lot of money. Long story short, I choose a very accelerated track and also have a hobbling writing/art career that I have surprisingly also kept up. Then recently the creative parent passed and I felt this void, so I have a year of the practical field left to finish and I have amazingly written 16 short stories and 2 comics in one year alone. I'd like to think that that would make my parent happy. So that's why dead end florals is dedicated to my mom.

The second person who its dedicated to is someone who I had to leave behind. That person didn't really understand why I was over-extending myself to pursue two careers when one already pays very well. I wish I could've had that person understand why it was important to keep art in my life.

At first I created a webcomic because I wanted to make a fun story about a jazz band that sucked. There wasn't really a storyline or anything, it was a generic funny "squad" webcomic.
Overtime it kind of just evolved into a story about a girl trying to get her life back together lol

Eh, there's a few reasons why I made the comic I did.

1. I wanted to improve with drawing cities, and perspective.
2. Growing up I saw things like mental illness used as a cheap way to villainize a character, or both mental and physical illness being used as a lazy way to force sympathy on a character without the author doing any research or only bringing up these problems for convenience. Getting a little sick of it I wanted to make a story where those subjects where a major focus, treating them with a sense of humanity, and a part of the character's life rather than a plot device.
3. I really like characters who are flawed visually and personality wise. People irl suck, and I wanna show how much they can suck via my comic.
4. It's fun making fictional characters suffer.
5. Friend and family love are the best kind of love imo, and I feel like those aren't touched on enough in stories.
6. I wanted an outlet for my frustrations, and depressive thoughts. Analyzing dark, abysmal stuff via a comic helps put my own feelings into perspective. Having a comic also gives me a purpose drawing wise, which is good because drawing is like a coping mechanism, and helps me relax after being stressed out all day.

I'd say my current project is moderately important to me, it touches on subjects I really enjoy working with while being a tool for my emotional benefit and improving my mad skillz.

I had this OC I really wanted to make use of, but none of the worlds I made for him could stick long enough for me to work on them and I kind of don't see a point of having OCs if they don't belong somewhere. And also I really badly wanted to make a comic about him. After many changes in his appearance and many tries at making a story I finally talked to my best friend about my problem. She gave me a "kick in the butt" and few ideas, so I could finally work on my series and now I'm motivated enough to keep it going even though it's still very new. xD

I've always wanted to tell slice-of-lifeish/adventure-y stories set in a semirealistic world about kids growing up and whatnot. finding that story within the world has been my struggle, buut I'm getting there!

I've noticed i like telling emotional stories with "lessons" if you will that might help readers struggling with a similar problem irl. so i guess, besides exploring a new medium, i want to help people via sensitive storytelling, because why not? plus I've got a ton of original characters I'd like to introduce to the world!!

(also because comics are the poor man's animated film and Hollywood sucks amiright?)

if I'm truthful I started my comic since I wanted to test myself and see how much and how well can I tell a story about characters and character interactions, also I wanted to use my art skills for something and I need a creative outlet when studying engineering

duude, synchronized posts!

Hm.... I've loved drawing comics ever since I was little but I never got to finish any story because I got discouraged from the amount of effort, commitment and also I wasn't good then. I grew up and started leaning towards traditional visual art/illustrations and once got used to the workload, researched various materials I started doing comics again because my friends loved my gag doodles... as to why I do the genre I do, because I'm a total weeb and sucker for Japanese manga.

I started True Faith as a vent novel after a recent breakup. I had some prior inspiration and a very different start, but it involved killing kids so no...

My other two stories were sparked more by the creative juices needing a bit of direction. And I just happen to have a love of shapeshifters. She Walks Softly was very loosely inspired by On A Leash and the deer woman legend. Murder aside, it was originally intended to be somewhat lighthearted, in contrast to True Faith.

I initially wrote Flirting With Death as a class assignment, and it was just one scene. The scene I first wrote is the second scene of the second chapter, where Jason confronts Foreas about how he lied his way into his life.
It was also a massive love letter to Hellblazer - especially the storyline where John has lung cancer and faces the possibility of dying and going to hell. Similarly, my main character is a reckless asshole who learns he is close to death. However, unlike John he cannot face it alone and has no choice but to let powerful beings lead the way. He kind of learns to be more humble.
It has evolved into something that reflects certain aspects of my own relationship with my partner, only without the lies and death lol.

As for From The Sky I basically wrote it to show off the character cast, which is why it's all character-driven comedy.
I loved the idea of personifying different types of weather, and the first two I designed were Nimbostratus and Cirrus. Cumulonimbus actually came to me a couple of strips into posting.
Eventually I took a really long hiatus but I came back to it (with no steady upload schedule, as before) because I wanted to make some improvements and I had even more character ideas that I'm excited to flesh out.

Well the story I'm working on has characters that my friend and I created a long time ago when we were younger. Being able to bring back those characters and do something new with them seemed like a fun idea and now that it's starting to come together I'm just enjoying the ride and seeing where these characters end up.

The reason I originally made Aiiro No Kunoichi was... really dumb tbh. Literally I was super into that whole "pirates vs. ninjas" meme at the time, and I wanted to make a cool ninja character because I felt like pirates were too popular. Like I said, really dumb.

The reason I continue making it is because the characters grew on me over the years, with a few of them even being particularly well-liked by my friends, so I didn't want to give up on them. Also they have some interesting stories that I still need to tell, haha.

I'll be upfront. The reason I work so hard on my comic is because it literally saved my life.

Several years ago I was in a really tough place mentally, and there were days that I didn't want to exist anymore. It got really, really bad. I was getting help, but every day was a struggle especially when all I wanted to do was stop being alive.

The only thing that kept me going really was working on Kamikaze. It gave me something to do when the demons weren't letting up. Something to think about and put energy into. If I was working on Kamikaze, I wasn't thinking about hurting myself. I buried myself in Markesha's world, and making Kamikaze helped me hang on until I got the help I needed.

I know it sounds dumb, but Markesha and company saved me from myself. I work so hard on her story because to do anything less would be an insult. She saved me. Now it's my turn to make sure her story is told. <3