Share your story: How did you get into webcomics?

[jacintawibowo]

Ooh that's so cool! I'm glad I'm not the only one who goes through the "links" pages in webcomic sites :B
Ah yes I was around the days when the vote incentive thing was popular too, the days of Topwebcomics~

Nowadays I find them primarily through Tapastic (woo!) and Tumblr

Me too! Both are great sites for spreading comics around! I think it's sweet that there are blogs out there that reblog friend/mentor comics! That's so nice :3
what do you suppose are the major reasons you're finding comics through Tapastic/tumblr nowadays? How have things changed since then?

[jacintawibowo]

I see. Be sure to get a comixology account! Much easier to read printed comics that way :]

I realized I had already subscribed to your series.

Oh what a delightful surprise, haha :b

[jacintawibowo]

Was one of my favorites, but now its kinda unreadable.

Ah, one of those stories. I've had a few webcomics I haven't returned to going in a direction that's just waaay off of what they've established in the beginning. Shame.

That works! I think I did something similar too. I would do experimental gag comics, then short stories, and finally a long story driven comic! Keep going at the pace you have then, sites like Tapastic's super supportive of multiple projects :]

[jacintawibowo]

no problem! (and that's totally fine, I take my time with replies) : )

[jacintawibowo]

Congrats on your first forum post!! Huzzah! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧

Love of storytelling is strong in many of us webcomic creators <3 I find a lot of us had interests in animation. I guess it's a close-cousin to the comic crowd! We pick a lot from each other.

Did I want to be a concept artist? Animator? Illustrator?

In these fields, what do they have that you were interested in, that comics didn't have?

I took an introductory course into animation and found out how amazingly tedious and cooperative it was.

omg..THIS exactly this. I was turned off by animation for the same reason. In animation, you're pretty much a small cog in a very big machine. A film is the culmination of hundreds of animators working together to make it possible. Each individual works on tiny scenes, or is in charge of making sure a shoe looks consistent, or is in charge of hair/cloth simulation. We don't get to work on the big picture at all :b

I spat out a few comic pages on DeviantArt in 2011 and she took me aside and gently told me to toss this comic and start over (it was really bad I promise! Haha!)

Haha XD I think what's shown to be consistent in this discussion is that the first stories we write are often terrible! It's good to know we're not perfect!

So I buckled down for 3 years and painfully developed a comic idea--completely ignoring the advice of "starting with something simple before diving into a long, complicated epic"! Long stories drive me to draw, what can I say?

Haha oh wow, you go in for the long haul don't you? :B brave, very brave! I must say XD

I threw my comic on a couple platforms, and that was when I discovered just how many webcomics were out there! It was super overwhelming! I'm embarrassed to say that I'm fairly new to reading webcomics in general, and there's so much out there, it feels like staring at the ocean when you're on the beach!

Interesting! So you're discovering the world of webcomics as you're making a webcomic yourself! How has the experience been? What's it like discovering the world of webcomics while making one? Do you discover "tricks to the trade" as you go, or do you stick to your guns and do it your way?

So hopefully, participating in the forums and reading all your posts will help educate me to this relatively new world that I decided to take part in! Hopefully, I'll learn some stuff, read some cool comics, and get to know some of you!

Lovely to meet you here! I always want to befriend and talk to artists, I hope tapastic forums will be able to provide for that! Can't wait to hear more from you :3

[PotooGryphon]

If you don't mind me asking, what kind of different projects did you two do separately?

Jeramy's personal projects were just stories he's had since high school that he's always wanted to make into a comic series (Trash below). Then he collaborated with a writer friend from school and made What I.F. Both Trash and What I.F. were publish by small local comic publishing houses, and he was able to travel to conventions and get his name out there. Once his reputation started to grow some of these publishers started hiring him for work; Decisions and Joshua Black (the last thumbnail below).

lol so he's always keeping busy.

My first 2 years after collage, I couldn't draw. I stopped completely because I was burnt out and it was terribly difficult to start back up again. I got together with a few animation friends and we had big plans of forming our own animation house and producing the cartoons we wanted to make (lol I think everyone goes through that after animation school). Oops was the idea we came up with. So for me, Oops has been a focus since 2007.

Did you two do separate things because you had differences in preference (animation vs comics)?

Kind of, yes. Jeramy had his passion and focus of wanting to be a comic artist professional, so it was important for him to go out there and build his portfolio and credentials. He'd take him portfolio to each bigger publisher's portfolio review at conventions and get punished by them. So much stuff he needed to improve (now they say he's just this close (squeezes fingers together) to becoming hiring material, ugh!).

And for me, I wanted to work on 2D animations. Get hired at Cartoon Network or some TV Network making animated cartoon series. However, these days, none of those TV companies do their own animations inhouse (it's done overseas), and TV network ratings are dropping. So if I'm ever to be a 2D animator (in America) I'd really have to make the career for myself (much like making your own professional webcomic career).

Oops and Alchemy? :0 how far did that project progress before you two decided to work together as a team? (Curious about how the world of Oops could have looked like animated!)

Well, I have a very old intro animation, about 4 animatics for episodes, scratch voice recording, and lots of storyboards/concept art. We plan to make a nice animated trailer for Oops soon, so animation is not all abandoned yet.
Link to Talon riding Cass run cycle- old promo animation

Ah I really want to do this! ;__; I've never promoted my stuff at a convention before, hoping to get a chance at CTN this year.

It's a lot of prep work and lots of fun to interact with fans face to face. ^_^ I recommend trying small local events as a good way to practice for the bigger ones. That helped us in the beginning.

I think one of the advantages of print is personalizing it as your own (getting author signatures and using pretty bookmarks!!). Part of the reason I think print is going to stay alive despite the rise in digital copies.

Very true. It's tangible. That's definitely a big pulse to me. I like to hug the comics I own lol

At least catch up with animated tv shows :Y they're so goood (we're having a renaissance in animation right now! It's beautifuuuul)

lol yep, I'm totally missing it then. I only follow SU and Gravity Falls. Over the Garden Wall and Avatar finished so those two shows are my only two current series. Nothing else has caught my attention yet.

Oh yes, lots of Let's Plays on Youtube as I work. Game Grumps, Markiplier, Pewds, Jack, so on. They're also pretty good models to emulate for building an online fan base/community. We're all internetainers after all ;D

Reading books are hard for me to get into. So many stories start good with weak pay offs/drag on, then it feels like I spent hours I could have used to created a story I do like for reading a story I didn't like. I do use Audiobooks to help create and hear a story at the same time. What are some books you enjoy?

Wow, another monster text wall of a post lol

[Riana]

Congrats on your first forum post!! Huzzah! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧

Ah, thanks!

In these fields, what do they have that you were interested in, that comics didn't have?

At the time, I wasn't very interested in comics in general because there was nothing out there that particularly interested me! It was sort of an ignored-medium. But concept art appealed to me because I loved that "blue sky" vibe of it! Anything was possible! Continuity was something you needn't worry about because these are just ideas! They could change and that appealed to me. When it comes to animation, I just loved the general aesthetics of traditional animation and the fact that the drawings were moving was so exciting! Magic! Illustration appealed to me because it was something I already knew I loved doing, but I knew there was something missing from just drawing still images.

In animation, you're pretty much a small cog in a very big machine. A film is the culmination of hundreds of animators working together to make it possible. Each individual works on tiny scenes, or is in charge of making sure a shoe looks consistent, or is in charge of hair/cloth simulation. We don't get to work on the big picture at all :b

Yep. That turned me right off to being an aspiring animator. Plus the industry as it stands now doesn't help, either. I've expressed to my animation professors that if it were still the 90s, I'd probably be more interested in being an animator. Regardless, I like having a lot of control over a project. In animation, that's mostly done by directors and maybe even storyboard artists and designers. The latter two falls into the illustration/concept art category so it contributed to my "what do I want to be?" juggling.

I think what's shown to be consistent in this discussion is that the first stories we write are often terrible! It's good to know we're not perfect!

Yes! I want to find someone who had their first comic be a masterpiece! Lol! : P

Haha oh wow, you go in for the long haul don't you? :B brave, very brave! I must say XD

Thanks! That's just the nature of how I tell stories. I like seeing big worlds, dramatic character development, journeys... the more massive the stories, the more invested I find myself in the characters, and therefore, the more I like drawing and obsessing over them! Short stories are fine and all but I always want more! Saying this, I actually do plan on making a little spin-off comic of my main comic epic of little random, maybe mostly funny short stories about the characters doing things that don't contribute to the plot as a whole! I think that would be fun to do!

So you're discovering the world of webcomics as you're making a webcomic yourself! How has the experience been? What's it like discovering the world of webcomics while making one? Do you discover "tricks to the trade" as you go, or do you stick to your guns and do it your way?

Yep, yep! Overall it's been mostly overwhelming, but the world of indie comics is just so amazing to me because of the lack of a "gatekeeper." People can write precisely what they want and exactly how they want it without conforming to the wants and needs of a publisher! I love seeing the passion in that! I mean yes, some webcomics do have target demographics and careful marketing to try to appeal to that group, but for the most part it's creators making what they've always wanted and it's just amazing to me! When it comes to tricks of the trade, I mostly study storytelling and comic making in a fairly general sense (ie, plot structure, character development, and comic grammar, consistent page layout-style, pacing...etc). I'm not sure if it's helped me or hurt me yet, but I hope my background of narrative art that's mostly in animation/illustration helps me stand out in the world of comics. I even opted out of taking a comic-making class at my school and took storyboarding instead. Debatably a good idea, even to myself! But I chat with my peers that are taking the class to see what they learn in it. But I shouldn't neglect to mention fact that the first 32 pages of my own comic was done for independent study schoolwork and my professor is a published comic artist as well as an artist in many fields including animation and illustration! I had lots of good help! But online, I mostly study how people market their webcomics. To to put it short, when it comes to comic production, I tend to stick to my guns--for better or worse. Everything else I need to absorb and adapt to make my own!

Lovely to meet you here! I always want to befriend and talk to artists, I hope tapastic forums will be able to provide for that! Can't wait to hear more from you :3

Yes! \o/ So far it's been really cool! And I'll definitely be popping in here and there!

[Jewe11s]

I'm not too sure why I'm not searching up new sites via 'the links page' on people's home sites anymore. I suppose my core webcomic followings haven't updated their public reading lists and I've already thoroughly checked out their interests that way.
On the other hand, I'm on tumblr and tapastic all the time. When I get new subscribers, I check out their comics if they have any. When I've got time, I check out the forums and try and meet new creators and when I'm bored, I browse the 'new', 'trending', etc sections of tapastic for something new to read. With tumblr, I usually either follow someone I know is already a webcomic creator OR an artist who posts their own illustrations. I find the artists I follow so far are broadly interconnected to the online art community as a whole and as they reblog content, I naturally get exposed to new artists, new comics, and inspiring artwork without having to try very hard. (Which is awesome.)
So I guess I've fallen away from using home-base link pages and sites like topwebcomics because I don't really need to anymore. I still check them out every now and again (especially when someone uses vote incentives for twc and renews them with each new page - I'm a sucker for those) but I suppose I've got a system that already works for me.

[HayateTsujimoto]

Ever since I was in elementary school, I'd loved drawing comics and showing them to my friends and family. In my first year of high school, I came across the web fan manga series, Dragon Ball New Age by MalikStudios on Deviantart. Reading this inspired a series of short lived fan manga that I had planned to publish on the internet, but never actually completed a single chapter for any of them. At some point I had considered making a Dragon Ball fan series, but I later moved on to ,Naruto, Attack on Titan, Fate, and Sword Art Online, but after I dropped them, I began working on my first real project, Persona 3: The Awakening. P3A is now ongoing with the 3rd chapter on the horizon, and I believe it will be the first manga series I've ever completed. In reality, webcomics were just a way that I saw to share my work with more people, and now, I can see this being a job option as well.

I decided to create webcomics to share my work with not only friends and family, but as many people as possible. I keep myself motivated by listening to music, playing the Persona games, and thinking about the friends that I've involved with P3A and their comments about wanting to see more of it whenever I give them something to read, even if it was just a storyboard for a chapter that would be scrapped in the future.

[jacintawibowo]

Neat! Jeramy works mighty hard, I expect that from a comics person ;B
Neat seeing how his first few projects started out. Were those comics Jeramy did a one-off series or are some still continued?

My first 2 years after collage, I couldn't draw. I stopped completely because I was burnt out...(etc)

Oh dang! Did your other animation peers go through something similar? I know there are a lot of complicated feelings that happen after college, but I didn't know being burnt out for so long was one of them! Would you say that having a project like Oops got you out of that "burnt out" feeling?

He'd take him portfolio to each bigger publisher's portfolio review at conventions and get punished by them. So much stuff he needed to improve (now they say he's just this close (squeezes fingers together) to becoming hiring material, ugh!).

Wew! Is Jeramy using the standard DC portfolio submission requirements (drawing varied characters, action+quiet sequences, animals, etc.)? What are they saying is missing before he's considered "hiring material"? :0

I've noticed that too (with the animations being done overseas). A lot of things are at stake with being an animator. Are other positions like being a storyboard artist also overseas? I think those are done inhouse.

We plan to make a nice animated trailer for Oops soon, so animation is not all abandoned yet. Link to Talon riding Cass run cycle- old promo animation

Nice! An animated trailer would be so cool, kids would get hooked on that pretty quickly. Are there going to be voices in your trailer or is it going to be all music? :B

It's a lot of prep work and lots of fun to interact with fans face to face. ^_^ I recommend trying small local events as a good way to practice for the bigger ones. That helped us in the beginning.

I'd really like that opportunity! We've been working a lot on our "con personality" I just really wanna put it to test!
The tough thing about local conventions in Hong Kong is that they're heavily fan-art oriented. The language barrier is tough too, most of the artists have to speak Cantonese and English to get by (and due to cultural upbringing, not a lot of talking and interaction actually goes on in the conventions, con-goers just buy merchandise and leave :b). It's gonna be so intimidating, but I really wanna get the hang of this!

I like to hug the comics I own lol

me too lol. My comicsss, muh babiess.

lol yep, I'm totally missing it then. I only follow SU and Gravity Falls. Over the Garden Wall and Avatar finished so those two shows are my only two current series. Nothing else has caught my attention yet

Yeah Steven Universe and Gravity Falls are the biggest names, but not the only ones! Some of the really interesting animated shows are actually getting written by webcomic people! Wander Over Yonder is one I'd recommend, it's created by Craig McCraken <3 and some episodes are written by Noelle Stevenson (creator of Nimona!). I also highly recommend Frederator cartoons (on Youtube) that's where weird stuff like Bee and Puppycat, Bravest Warriors, and some one-off shorts got animated! What's suuuper fascinating about Frederator in particular is that they're actually scouting for a lot of webcomic peeps for material to make shorts out of (might totally be a longterm goal of mine to get them to notice meee).

Oh yes, lots of Let's Plays on Youtube as I work. Game Grumps, Markiplier, Pewds, Jack, so on. They're also pretty good models to emulate for building an online fan base/community. We're all internetainers after all ;D

Sweetness~ it's really cool seeing different reactions to stories in videogames. Especially since the gamers are putting in real effort (fighting minions and bosses) to get through the story. Some of the best stories I've ever consumed are from videogames. Don't know if there's a story that's beaten out Boishock yet, but maybe some day!

Reading books are hard for me to get into. So many stories start good with weak pay offs/drag on, then it feels like I spent hours I could have used to created a story I do like for reading a story I didn't like. I do use Audiobooks to help create and hear a story at the same time. What are some books you enjoy?

Aaw don't let that stop you from reading books! I totally get you, I've read some bad and terrible novels that ate up so much of my time. This one time I read a novel I was so hyped up for but got incredibly disappointed in (it dragged on and had a weak pay-off, like you said), but I took up another book immediately, and that book literally was my future favorite book! If I had given up reading I wouldn't have found it!
I've been eating up as many children's books as possible (I want to know what Tales from the Well is up against, lol), so far some good ones:
-Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine
-The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
-The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
-The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman
-A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness (my all time favorite, I borrow a lot from it in terms of storytelling)

My sister and I like finishing up not-so-great books and discussing the heck-outta how it could have been improved. It's a really good writing exercise, since it's easy to point out how others did it wrong compared to finding it out in your own writing.
A lot of my artist friends get into Audiobooks. I think Audiobooks would have a nice future some day soon!

Wow, another monster text wall of a post lol

lol monster text posts are what I live for :B I really want to initiate a lot of discussion and interaction on these forums!

[PotooGryphon]

Were those comics Jeramy did a one-off series or are some still continued?

Trash has been shelved currently, however, there's still several issue left in it. I'm not sure if he'll ever revisit it. He can't write from the same teenage angst the story was originally about.

What I.F. was a one off good-bye letter an Imaginary Friend writes to his human friend, however, it's gotten popular enough that Jeramy and his friend, D.J, are considering a second issue. The single issue achieved diamond distribution.

Decisions is a series through the publishing house Cosmic Times, however, Jeramy just worked on issue 3. And Joshua Black is a series through Con Artist Entertainment that he's signed up for issues 5 and ongoing.

Did your other animation peers go through something similar?

Yep, most of my graduating class felt it. Some never drew again even though they now what degrees in art. :B

Would you say that having a project like Oops got you out of that "burnt out" feeling?

Kind of, but not Oops. Through Jeramy's first comic publishing house connection, What The Flux Comics, we were hired to fully animate a 60+ minute 2D movie about mutant monsters in Chernobyl, just the two of us. The project ended badly with a terrible movie to show for it, however if forced me to routinely draw (a lot) and helped Jeramy and I get used to drawing digitally on Wacom tablets. Yay! Win, ... except for never receiving final payment for a finish product. ha ha ooooh

Is Jeramy using the standard DC portfolio submission requirements (drawing varied characters, action+quiet sequences, animals, etc.)? What are they saying is missing before he's considered "hiring material"?

Honestly, I have no idea what portfolio model he uses. I thought it was just bring your best work with strongest pieces in the front, however, he might be using the DC submission requirements.

Their reason are mainly just small nit picky things, like maybe a tangent is off on one panel or line weight on a hand needs to be more thoughtfully considered. Stuff I don't even think about while drawing my cartoony stuff, and crazy enough, since my style is cartoony they'd excuse things that they'd call him out on since he's more realistic.

Are other positions like being a storyboard artist also overseas?

Yeah, pre-production work is pretty much the only thing left in-house in America. :/ I just want to animate though.

Are there going to be voices in your trailer or is it going to be all music?

We have a great voice actor friend. He voiced most of the monsters in our terrible Chernobyl movie. lol Whenever I can, I would like to use his talents as a trailer narrator. ^_^

The tough thing about local conventions in Hong Kong is that they're heavily fan-art oriented. The language barrier is tough too, (etc)

Whoa! O.O That's so different from American comic conventions. Well... The fan art is still a heavy selling point in Artist Alley, but talking to one another seems to be a big part of it (at least for us). Also, I totally blown away by people that can fluently talk in more than one language. I can stumble my way through Spanish, but English is my only language.

(might totally be a longterm goal of mine to get them to notice meee).

lol Frederator is now Senpai!
Yeah, Craig and Frederator have been around ever since I was in art school. I admire Craig for leaving CN after they were trying to transition to "CN Real" (oh goodness, dumb).

[allenthomas]

I've always wanted to make comics, I just didn't really know how to get into the comic book industry. I made little strips and mini-mangas while I was a child. It wasn't until after going to school for game animation that a lightbulb went off in my head telling me to try my hand at webcomics. I spent most of 2012 looking into how to make and publish webcomics. For the next two years I would start developing my new comic. It was kind of a struggle as alot of personal problems and a family passing took precedent over my comic. By Dec 2014, I was preparing to upload to Inkblazers on New Years Day. Sadly, I discovered Inkblazers was closing and that was when someone on deviantart pointed me to Tapastic. I'm actually much happier on tapastic then the short time I spent on Inkblazers. I will say that in all the time I spent working on my story for my comic that my drawing greatly suffered and I've been spending the past year trying to improve and get back to form, but so far I'm happy with my experience and things are only getting better.

[SkipperWing]

Cool! I like the dynamic poses in your comic. Definitely animation friendly!

Haha, thanks! I couldn't give up either, and they're too sides of the same coin (the only difference is the perception of motion), so why not make it easier to animate by having my comic panels serve as concept art/storyboards/key poses for my animation?

Oh wow. Rough first webcomic experience in 2013. How long did that comic last?

Oh man, I think, about ... two months...? I remember I was trying to go 3 days a week, and that just was not enough time at the time, especially without a buffer. In hindsight, I'm kinda glad it didn't last too long; not enough time to build a fanbase to disappoint! I think we all dodged a bullet there!

Ohmygosh! You're from SCAD? That's crazy! So are we (our comic was featured on the SCAD blog a while ago) were you majoring in animation then? I didn't know that a thesis had to be made for graduation! I like it when artists revisit ideas they had previously, especially as a sign of showing how much they've progressed since then.

You guys are at SCAD?! That's awesome! What major? I'm assuming "sequential art," but well, "assume nothing!" How far are you, and are you liking it? Me, I got out a while ago (Nov2013, but "continuing Thesis" until this year). The thesis is unique to the graduate program, but its essentially a senior project with a research paper tacked on. Not as big as the college would have you assume.

Do you plan to continue your webcomic perpetually or does is it a one-shot?

Well, honestly, I'd like to say it will go one forever... One of the themes I want to explore is the development of character through changes in maturity and physical appearance/ability in a continuous work, and basically see the Crimson Fly get old in a way we don't see in the mainstream, in characters like Batman and Spider-man who are perpetually 29/35-ish. I want to see the Crimson Fly get old, and how that affects him, his cast, the readers that grew up with him, or are just being introduced to him, and of course, yours truly. Of course, "all good things must come to an end, eventually" and you can't begin a journey without having an end in mind, so I try to write to reach an acceptable stopping point if I should ever grow tired or the comic (even though I hope I won't, but you never know. Hopefully I'll have enough sense to stop before then)

How about you guys? How did you get into webcomics and/or comics in general? (I haven't skimmed the comments enough to see if you've already answered)

[ethorbardin]

It was in Vancouver Airport. There was a comic convention in town. The music was playing and it was packed. It was during the week I believe. Me and my good buddies Otty and Sonya from http://ThisComic.Rocks went over and there were lots of webcomickers there at the bar. My buddies knew I didn't like webcomics (though theirs is good), just comic books. So we went and sat in the other corner away from them.

When they were ready to close, we had a few drinks, and on our way out there were five guys from Dark Horse, I think, or Image, just sitting there. Of course, the same thing came out. The "fake" stuff. "Hey, are you guys with those guys – webcomickers? The fake comics on the internet?" You know. And though I agreed, you don't disrespect my friends in front of me like that, because like I said theirs is actually good. So I said, "Yeah. I’ll show you." And I reached over without thinking – there are four other guys there – grabbed his face, and bit his nose off. Then the fight started. Me and Otty kind of cleaned house there and left. I’ll never forget it.

The next day I started a webcomic of my own. I felt kind of compelled because of having fought for them, you know? But of course mine was terrible as most webcomics are and I quit. I still make things up on the internet though.

[seansmartin]

I started drawing my comic by hand for paper reproduction back in 1987. An accident left me unable to draw that way so I moved over the 3D modeling and the web around 2003, and the comic has been running ever since. It's on its way to its 3500th episode, which should be around January, and it;s been a wild ride.

/Sean Martin
docandraider.com

[jacintawibowo]

Hey guys~ @Riana @Jewe11s @HayateTsujimoto @CyndiFoster @allenthomas @SkipperWing @ethorbardin @seansmartin I'll be responding to your stories and replies later this week! Midterms are coming at school right now. I'm working hard to get that done so I can ask you guys individualized questions about your webcomic journey! I've really enjoyed reading your unique stories, thanks so much for taking the time to share.

[michaelson]

[jacintawibowo]

thanks for pinning this topic, loved hearing everyone's stories. Makes me want to make new forum topics to get people talking with each other more it's been a really warm welcome.

[BraveHeartTatsumaki]

Nice question xD
Well, it was around the 2010, when I saw people in other kind of forums publishing short comics and then a friend I made was making a comic of Pokemon. I didn't know much, but I wanted to join stuff like these since long, so then I started working in Pokemon Brilliant, that was my comic xD It was a new region and new characters, mixing with already existing ones, at first some people disliked it and practically wanted make me stop publishing, but I continued and slowly, others started to like it aswell and in the end there was more people liking it than disliking it. Sadly for stuff from college and personal things I stopped it, also I wanted to do something more "original" and not continue using an already existing thing, I wanted to do something for myself, though, in that comic I created the main protagonist of my actual comic here in Taps, I just modify her some parts of her hair, clothes and personality, and of course added more stuff.
And I really liked the part in which I made a story, and people enjoyed it, even were expecting more stuff, it felt really nice ^^

[pedro_de_matos]

Long story short: I write novels since high school, but stopped reading comics a while before. In university I started with comics again, and an old story for a novel about a doomed high school, that I left apart because a thought it were better in comic, rose again in my mind.
But stood left apart =_D
Time later I discovered webcomics and started looking for an artist who could draw my story, because I had no f**ing idea about taking a pencil and stuff.
But, in the end, I started drawing, and, five years later, here I am =)