My comic started as a bad fanfiction. What about yours? Share your experience, comics and novels

arxianfall 2021-03-22 10:40:43 UTC #41

No steel started because I had an awesome playthrough of Rimworld and wrote everything that happened. Now I have a giant ass story to tell.

The chained series I'm working on. started because I got frustrated with the Isekai genre and its shitty worldbuilding. So i'm doing my own isekai! "With blackjack! and hookers!"

Adrenaline junkies and other Junk is just me drawing my experiences in sports and life. I made it for my friends.

adderfly 2021-03-22 14:29:17 UTC #42

True! But very on- brand for me as a person

xstarx07 2021-03-22 14:54:52 UTC #43

I'd say my comic project still is a fanfiction to some extend, but it developed its own lore over the years, since it mainly focuses on my original characters, rather than the worlds they travel into and the characters in it, since they are just part of the whole thing. That aspect changes over the course of the story, however I'm not really far with the chapters yet since I only started with chapter 2 a few days ago and with my new workflow, it might take a while to release ^^"
It's still a clusterfuck - it's always been, honestly - but I really wanted to implement multiverse stuff and timeline theory into the project at one point and just built upon that.

carolhildebrand 2021-03-22 17:57:18 UTC #44

Mine technically started as a Neopets story

When I was in middle school I wrote this story about my pets, as we did back then. Then 10 years later I was trying to come up with an idea for a shortish comic (I wanted to use it to learn how to do webcomics properly) and decided to recycle some of the characters and concepts that inspired the original story. The final story is COMPLETELY different from that original one, it's like I grabbed a sub-plot from the original and made it a whole new story, but it technically started as a Neopets story lol

GumshoeComix 2021-03-28 23:49:32 UTC #45

My story started as a big vent / cope for teenage me back in 2011.
I wrote a lot of violent stories back then cause no one thought I needed therapy. ;~;

at some point in 2012 i put off the story and thought "I'm going to wait till I'm more mature to write this because there's a lot of adult themes and maybe when I'm older I'll understand better"
so the story went on hold for a long time while I worked on other projects

and here I am 27 finally writing that story I wrote as a teenager.

N1ghtm4r3 2021-03-29 00:34:38 UTC #46

where to begin , the earliest my idea started was me just drawing giant robots, growing up with power rangers as a kid and when gundam wing came on i was hooked ,so i just kept drawing, ,eventually i had started making stories acting them out in my room , and about 2010 is when i started to write it out ,making up villains/monsters of the week ,but soon condensing them down and working more on the characters , i do actually have a lot of stories like episodes to a tv show , 199 to be accurate ,and started to combine my live to draw with my desire to write to create my magnum opus, mind you this is a summary as the full story would be too long, i am still working out problems i find and my art improves every time so this is gonna be a long ride

https://tapas.io/episode/648888