Hii! I'm all for the whole older creator thing
I'm 31 and I've started drawing my comic series this year in march. I created stories basically my whole life, but it took me a long time to realize, that I could actually do something with them. I worked on my drawing skills for many years to be more or less good enough to draw a comic and here it is!
It's called 'A Tale of Two Shadows', it's a slow burning LGBTQ+ crime thriller. Mature content warning, through!
Hey,
Im 37 and always been drawing and always been a bit to chicken to start my own comic. Ive been doing comic pages here and there throughout the years but rarely shown them publicly.
Always felt like there was more to learn before I could make my own comic - esp backgrounds but last year I just said fuck it and went with it haha
I also have an education in animation and been working mostly as game animator but also on 2D feature films but nowadays Im going back to an old interest of mine - horses - and is working in a stable!
I have way to many characters and stories but I got the idea for my ongoing comic somewhere back in 2014-ish? and only recently managed to really start the comic and Im really enjoying it a lot!
Oh hai, nice to see some fellow millennials!
I'm going to be 32 by the end of the month and I've been drawing and writing since I was a wee little kid :'D I have a Master's degree in Graphic Design and I work as an Art History and technical drawing teacher by day. I've been involved in the world of traditional publishing for over a decade now, both as a writer and as an illustrator. The Emergency Coven is my first "official" big comic project.
I've always wanted to be a comic artist, but the traditional comic scene in my country is tiny, overly focused on already existing IPs and quite hard to get in. Plus, I much prefer to work on my own comics, rather than stuff written by someone else, so when I realized that webcomics were a thing, I was super happy! I don't necessarily plan to turn comic-making into a full time job and I'm more than happy keeping it as a side-job of sorts... but I'd definitely love to see my audience grow ^___^
About the comic: The Emergency Coven is a supernatural mystery that's been in the works since 2015 (though I only started to publish it as an actual comic starting from last year). It follows a bunch of disaster mages joining forces against a bunch of disaster cultists. Includes found family/fire-forged friends, cool motorcycles, lots of long haired dudes and LGBT+ characters. Rated T+ for language, violence and sensitive themes (e.g. mental health, bullying and abuse).
I'm 16 and have never worked with anything. At the beginning, I considered to write as a hobby, but as I wrote my story I decided to take it serious. I really love the story I'm writing and everything that is gonna happen. I hope you all enjoy it! My novel is a fantasy which happens in an unequal world, where there is a people who is hunted under some empire's justification. "Everybody is victim of an unequal sun."
Take a look:
https://tapas.io/series/Seen-from-Shadow
Oh, this is nice! I'm 28, turning 29 soon and about to get married. I actually met my fiance on a forum/website where I was writing a lot and RP'ing with others and a friend I met there is also gonna be at my wedding, I've known her for over 10 years now.
I've been writing for as long as I remember, I started writing in notebooks, typed out stories on my mom's old typewriter and later had a computer in my room with Windows 95 and no internet where I wrote stories in notepad haha. A few years ago I wrote my first novel and I'm working on translating it to English (the Mule). I wrote it for a competition for that website I started on but decided not to post it in the end. I haven't posted it anywhere before I decided to come to Tapas and post it here.
The other one (Summer's out of reach) is a totally different genre than I usually write and is more of a fun project to branch out. I'm not very good at writing romance because I somehow always end up writing angst and its happening again lol.
Genre: Sci-fi
When police officer Shane Hall literally tumbles into a different reality one day, everything changes for him. The young woman he holds responsible for this doesn't want anything more than to bring him home and get rid of this unwanted visitor, but that turns out to be a lot harder than expected.
Genre: BL
Anthony J. Crowley, a trust fund kid and the son of a well-known politician, meets the very religious Aziraphale Fell every year for two weeks in France on their summer holiday. During these seven years they develop a friendship, until something happens and Anthony doesn't come back. It takes them twelve years to reunite, but no one told them how badly it can hurt.
WARNING: Some episodes will be rated as "mature" for sexual content and implied abuse.
Alright! is nice to see that I'm not the only one over 30 in here
I'm a 32-year-old graphic designer that has been trying to do webcomics ever since my high school days when the site to publish comics where Smackjeeves, Drunkdunk, and Comicfury. I didn't get much posted in those times but I've been working and re-working and re-re-working the plot of my comic and finally started posting in here and on webtoon around May.
My comic, Auster, is an Action / Horror / Urban fantasy comic about a teen with social anxiety and amnesia who fears he's gonna be completely alone after his only two friends move away for college next year. But then he gets a mysterious letter from someone that says she can bring back his memories and help him reconnect with his childhood friends. He goes to meet with that person not knowing he'll end up caught in the middle of a war between secret organizations in a world in which people develop super powers based on the traumatic experiences they have lived.
If that sounds interesting to you feel free to check it out =)
Yay! Glad to see a fellow older creator here! I subbed to your comic, its frickin adorable, my friend!
Here's mine:
It is a story that I put off for almost 12 years due to self-doubt and pessimism, and at the age of 27, I finally decided to push myself and make it. Balancing a family, job and studies (masters degree), its a lot of work and yet I strive to draw every single day and tell my story.
Thanks for the thread!
Hello fellow millennials. I, too, am depressed lol
I’m 32 and have been doodling since I figured out how to hold a pencil and have been writing for nearly as long (although, I wouldn’t say I’m particularly adept at either, but it fills the void just a smidge, which is lovely) I have a novel that I just started writing with no plan whatsoever (do not do this, I have no idea what to write for it next and I’m closing in on what I had written previously) and a comic I’ve been writing for nearly a decade (however, I am colorblind and terrible at perspective/backgrounds, so idk man I guess I’m just a mess)
They’re both passion projects that I’ve put a lot of myself into, and to see any amount of people enjoy them has been such an incredible experience.
For Julian Rhydderch; I’ve got some mental health issues of my own and am autistic so this was more an exercise in learning emotions and trying to find ways to understand them and maybe the reactions of people around me/how to deal with them. It was never meant to be shared with people, but I allowed friends to read it and they told me to share it.
As for The Tower, I wanted to make a superhero comic with one linear plot. While there are side stories, there’s also a definite end planned. The whole plot is planned, actually, now I just need to get better at art!
I'm 34 and working on my first novel Jade Kingdoms! JK will be four years old on August 1st this year too. I began writing JK in order to heal from a personal experience in life and its done wonders for my mental health and improved my art so much. I am proud to call this novel my own, with my art thriving on its storyline and myths.
And its webcomic of short comics meant to hype folks up for my novel! I actually have another one that's a full comic but its up on my Patreon only.
Here's my twitter https://twitter.com/Hambonous2 Thank you for sharing! ^^
I'm in my mid-30s, and I'm currently working on my first webnovel. I've made a few start-and-stop attempts at creative writing over the years (some Ouran Host Club fanfic here, a rock opera about the Greek hero Theseus there), but I sort of gave up on my grander authorial aspirations when I was younger. Then the pandemic hit, and I had to change jobs to make more time for my kids, and now I have all this extra time and a whole bunch of creative energy that needed an outlet, so here we are.
My story is a BL set in an omegaverse AU, but I'm hoping to attract readers who might normally take a pass on that particular genre for various reasons. The story follows a group of characters living and working at a shelter for Omegas, and aims to grapple with some of the more problematic tropes inherent in the ABO genre. Content warnings for topics relating to abuse & mental health issues, but the overall focus of the story is on hope, healing, and processing trauma through therapy and support. I'm also making a point to steer clear of anything related to dubcon or glamorizing toxic relationship dynamics. We stan healthy relationships over here!
Hmm... If I have to trust my ID card, it seems... Indeed, it seems that I'm older than twenty-five
I'm self-employed as a day job, changing career after a few years in another one, and I've been writing--and role-playing--since... Uh... For years, do not count after so much time
I started at a very young age
May you all have success and happiness in your life!
Hello, I am 24 years old and i been writting since i was 15. I love to write about fantasy i am dreaming with write my own manga :3
Currently I am publishing a fanfiction of my hero academia
But in the future I would like to publish some original stories that I am working on
best of the wishes to everybody