For what reason are you telling your story?

Oh dear, with multiple comics, I'll have to explain my impetuous decisions.

[COMPLETE ONESHOT] First comic I posted was a university creative writing class final project. I didn't think too much about the idea and remembered an idea that I read on Tumblr a long time ago about "NOPE, the anime". I drew a slightly more detailed version of that and used it as a final project. Although I only drew 9 pages for the original (due to project criteria), I liked the premise enough to want to expand and draw bonus stories for the side characers.

[COMPLETE ONESHOT] The second comic I posted was ALSO a university final project, where in my Modern Japanese Lit class, we had an option of drawing a manga instead of writing an essay. I based this story off two stories we had to read in class. One was a story about a woman in her thirties with creepy sexual fantasies including BDSM and child abuse, while the other story was about a narrator who discovered a girl living alone wearing a rabbit costume.

The third comic I posted was inspired by when I found out my childhood IRL friend also had a Tapastic comic: a SOL series that pretty much was a diary of the little events in her life. I somewhat reconnected with her a bit through this, and also started my own so that we could keep up with each other's life events despite having moved far away from each other (She moved to a neighbouring city for school, and then for work). This became my casual, unscheduled diary comic.

[CH1 COMPLETE] The fourth comic I posted was my own personal wish. I was itching to draw a purely plotless, BL comic since I read so many of them and it's pretty much 80% of what I read. I also lamented having so many characters that I created for old DeviantartRP groups that didn't get enough development, so I took a few that had similar settings and threw them together into one comic for them to develop. I also figured out while writing this one, that a porn-without-plot still needs a basic plot so they have a reason to start doing the sexy.

The sixth (The fifth is just an empty placeholder comic) was somewhat unplanned. I felt like drawing a furry comic. Not just what I usually see around FurAffinity (which were mostly all NSFW), but I wanted to draw a SFW, cute furry comic that was just... cute. I also wanted to update my furry characters that I created back in university, and remade them with the concept of Phantom Thief and Police Detective, since I was REALLY into Magic Kaito 1412 at the time. Readers read it and thought it was based on the Persona 5 hype, but really, it was based on Magic Kaito.

[COMPLETE ONESHOT] My latest series is one more "final project" during my grad program. We had to present our self-directed research project/thesis presentation in a creative way, so I decided to do what I'm used to doing: making a comic. This one was to highlight burnout, stress, social/cooperation of colleagues, etc. of the teaching career. Some research did not make it into the comic, such as "burnout and depression symptoms tend to crossover, and some critics believe that there is a correlation between the two" and that "burnt out teachers tend to lead classrooms with higher rates of student dropouts, student depression, and student suicide." (My conclusion is that burnt out teachers end up teaching in a way that causes burnt out students, like a top-down reaction)

Stress relief, and also to practice drawing. And also becaus I always wanted to do a webcomic lol.

Let's see if I can state this in as few a words as possible XD

The characters in Hybridor have been in development for YEARS, as fun little roleplay characters I'd use for rping with friends online. They use to be Sonic FC's (mostly). But then one day I touched bases with an old dear friend of mine, and over the course of a year and some months, we Rp'ed a story that I fell in love with. I loved it so much that I wanted to make it a comic. But to make it have some sort of sense (and to keep it from being a typical FC fest), the characters needed a visual redesign and some world-building groundwork made. So thus I began making the first Era of Hybridor (Era II is the actual story).

Me and my old friend (who's now my boyfriend and happily have been so for a while) are now co-making this project. We both love it and feel it's cool enough that others will enjoy reading it as much as we do. It might not be the most original of concepts at face-value, but I feel there's enough twists and rarely touched upon concepts in it that by the end of it, people will feel fulfilled, thought-provoked, and glad to have experienced our little slice of fantasy.

TL:DR Came for the fun rping, stayed for the passion.

Actually in the process of re-writing mine, but I'll share mine too:

It was a few years ago when I got back into it again and just thought 'Hey, why not make it about fighting games?' There's a lot of potential in it with e-sports on the rise and loads of topics to explore.

The process of writing so far has been a massive voyage of self-improvement. The challenges posed in creating a comic like plot, character, scheduling, marketing, research etc. can all be applied to daily life too.

I one day hope to be a part of (or even start!) the rise of fighting-game comics/manga.

A long time ago, like some others I've seen here, I made Sonic FC's that became my intro-characters for roleplaying online. I had a fun time and met new friends while using these characters to just make stories. But they we're always using Sonic material.

Fast forward a few years, and my fandom for the Sonic has dwindled. But my FC's had evolved to being somewhat their own thing, outside of their designs. I had created some new characters for fun on other projects, but collectively, I just had a bunch of characters with loose backgrounds that were rooted in more popular franchises.

One day, I reconnected with an old talented rper, and we made Hybridor, a fun rp that started as a 'what if' one shot but then quickly bloomed into a huge story that I fell in love with. By the end of it, I knew I wanted to share it's story visually, but to make it it's best, I knew I had to redesign my characters and do some tweets. And now here we are. Hybridor now has characters that are rooted in nothing but my own work, a world that is all my own, and has a story and characters that I love so much that I wanna share it with the world.

TL:DR It's a rp story I made with someone else that I loved so much, that I wanted to turn it into a comic.

Um... People have deep, sentimental, and thoughtful reasons here but for me... I don't know? I just write it? I just want to know what people think about it.

This actually kind of my experiment story, its concept has been standing the longest but kept being rewritten and reformatted that only some of the old things stay. Karana means endeavor in ancient language, so maybe it is it.

Garden Variety started purely as a way to escape my retail job. At the time, I was following a certain artist who made his living doing purely NSFW stuff, and I thought I could do that as well. I couldn't. The artwork was bad, the writing was bad, my heart wasn't in it, and I felt like a total sellout. Plus I thought back to all the other things that inspired me over the years, and I just wanted to make something ANYONE could enjoy. The characters grew, I got attached to them, and I eventually wanted to share their stories with anyone who would listen. That brings us to the present, and things are just getting better and better.

I wanted to get the ideas festering in my head on paper, and hope that my words can make at least one person's heart.

Mine is actually an autobiography converted into a fantasy comic as I have a hard time expressing many issues that I experienced in my life in words

I tried to write fantasy when I was at school and university. Then I didn’t write for 10 years, because I didn’t have time (I worked a lot, studied, opened my own company). All this time I wrote stories in my head, but I did not write them down.
And then I had a depression. After several months spent at home without work, I suddenly remembered my old hobby and decided to write a new story. So this particular novel began as self-therapy.
This story has autobiographical elements. For example, I had a social phobia that became very strong while I was in school.

Now, at the same time, I am writing a few more stories in different genres: dark fantasy, cyberpunk and a script for a fantasy romantic comic.

I lay the blame for my series on Hyperdimension Neptunia and its sequels being terrible and getting worse with each new installment. Contempt as it turns out is a great motivator if used correctly. I hated HATED the overall lackluster storytelling in what could have been a more interesting series. I took one character I particularly liked took a good hard look at her and then ripped her guts out using a few of the bits I liked to create a new character and the series just kinda built up around it over time until I was ready to start telling stories with it.

Granted the final product is so radically different you'd never guess that's where it started but that's why inspiration is the start of creation and not the end. I worked on this behind the scene for YEARS developing the ideas and reworking things I didn't like. Then I conceived and began to craft a story line I could actually be proud of and despite a rough start i think I'm getting there.

I'm telling my story to find out how much I can improve my art skills. Improving my art skills includes improving discipline, social skills, art work, consistency, venting, and sharing information.

Just for fun. I'm really fond of all these action movies/TV shows and always wanted to have my own, with my own character, setting, plot and this all things. And drawing comic is easiest/cheapest way to realize it, that's why i'm here

i'm not sure if i've answered before but partly because i want to tell the stories that have been locked in my head forever and to hopefully inspire or at least entertain folks with those stories. i've always loved stories about life and adventure and exploring other worlds and i hope people can find that in some of the things that i create to be able to see and experience worlds both similar and vastly different from our/their own. it'd definitely be cool to see my comics becoming something else like a movie or a game but i'm also happy if they remain as what they were originally so long as i and those i share it with can enjoy and be happy with it

I like telling stories because I feel it´s the only way I can express myself in a deeper way. Although I only have one series at the moment (https://tapas.io/series/Sarahs-Plant1), some of the situations that the comic has or is going to have are situations inspired in my real life, my ideas, my influences by other media, etc. Another reason I tell stories is because I want to create things like the ones that inspire me (a lot of movies, books, comics, and even music). Also, drawing and thinking in stories helps me to relax me and be in my own world for a couple hours.

The reason I write these stories is simple. They're true, and they need to be shared.