Yay! Welcome to the forums @jacintawibowo! Now we have another place online to chat XD
Hmm, my webcomic journey is tied in with my husband. He's always loved comics, collected them as a kid, and it's been his dream to work professionally as a comic artist. 2D animation is my passion, and we both meet at and graduated from The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale with degrees in Media Art and Animation.
For the longest time after graduating, we worked on separate personal projects and it was only 5 yrs later the stroke of genius struck that we should work together.
I had an animation project, that I was developing at the time for a youtube series, called Oops and Alchemy. An Animaniacs type series where an accident prone mute apprentice disrupts his high strung Alchemist master as he precisely tries to concoct the pinnacle of Alchemy achievement.
When Jeramy came on board, a few things changed with Oops, like a more complex storyline forming it into a story series instead of episodic gags, and we switched it to comics since we felt that would help us get it done faster than a 2 person animation team.
And that's how I got into webcomics.
We started posting Oops online as a way to promote it in print, however, it works well either way. Going to conventions as selling print comics also helps promote our online series too.
The benefits of webcomics are they're easily accessible, abundant, can read anywhere, and instant for a reader. Print takes effort to find, buy, can't read in the dark, takes up physical space in a home, and takes time (drive to the store, browse through a store, flip through pages, buy, drive home, sit down and read). Not that the whole process of acquiring a print comic is bad however, it's not instant like web.
Not really. Comics are comics no matter the format, however, webcomics are more of an open equal playing field where artists can experiment with story ideas and anyone can make one. And print comics are still dominated by 5 major comic companies and it's male dominated industry with more rigid blockbuster movie type stories. (at least in American comics)
Husband's passion and it's more practical for a 2 person art team than animation.
Because I wouldn't know what to do with myself if not creating. I don't watch tv or play video games, so it's either have fun and create or do nothing and feel bored and useless. lol Also it helps that my husband has the same work drive, so I get motivated seeing him work so hard on comics too. And our Oops story. We have a story to tell and we can't stop till it's done.