What are all the components needed for world building?

[AureliusSnow]

I love fantasy stories!
My world I'm creating is a fantasy world.
This might be a strange request but would you like to be friends and just geek out about fantasy worlds together? lol-

[AureliusSnow]

Thank you so much!
I'll be sure to watch it when I get the free time!

[AureliusSnow]

Thank you so much friend! I'll do a lil more research just to be sure!

[AureliusSnow]

Thank you sm
I'll be sure to work on those!

[AureliusSnow]

I'm planning on having a comic explaining the species and world before starting the series.
It'll mostly be for myself but fans are welcome to read it to understand my world better. They don't have to read it but it would help them if they have any questions.

[Iris-Grimoire]

I don't mind! Sure thing, though I'm usually busy so I can't always stay for long conversations.

As for use in a comic, having worldbuilding set up is usually for extra episodes and the creator than for the readers. If you put in an interesting note on the script and nowhere else, it's going to be really easy to lose it then contradict it later; with notes on a worldbuilding file you can always look back there. Having extra episodes set aside for lore also means I can be vague or omit plot-relevant information and not just throw all of it in, or have it work as an in-universe tool meaning you still only know as much as the characters/the story's framing.

[AureliusSnow]

I agree!
Having a separate comic explaining the world-building will be super helpful even if none of my readers read it. honestly it's all up to them if they want to or not. Though they'll be missing out on some cool facts and such lol-

[Jenny-Toons]

When it comes to my own work, I do world building based character interactions. Because for me, a world is too big to try and contain into a narrow-focused story. If I'm making a comic based on one person's journey, I don't really have a lot of room to try and dive into religion or economy or world state unless it's relevant to the plot at hand.

Hence, you see the dots connect with the way I have character relationships. Our Universe is cosmic horror romance, and its cousin comic My Demon Valentine is paranormal romance. You learn a few things from the character interactions:

1. Celestial beings, monsters, demons, and other entities exist.

2. The existence of such beings is acknowledged, though that doesn't mean they're always coexisting with humans or that they're out and about. Some are, but some aren't.

3. People in this world embrace Astrolatry a bit more (which is why you see a lot of talk about the universe and stars and planets as beings).

Keeping the world building a little subtle, if not more open to some interpretation, helps give readers more room to make theories and analysis your work. Makes for great dialogue, especially when they're excited about how characters interact or why they behave a certain way in this world setting.

[AureliusSnow]

You have a point my friend
It is nice to think I've done enough world-building for my stories
I'll be sure to keep that in mind!

[eyewhiskers]

I don’t know if someone mentioned already but remember:

Glory
Gold
God

I think you have some covered but think about Money and industry. What do people buy/sell? What do they do for entertainment? Where/how do they work.

Hope this helps!

[AureliusSnow]

Thank you! I'll be sure to keep that in mind!

[Darth_Biomech]

First things first - be prepared that about 80% of your wourldbuilding will be left out of the comic. That's normal. If you content with it, that's fine, if not, you have three options: inject the comic with infodumps until it bleeds with them, start a secondary bonus entries with these infodumps formatted like some in-universe thing like a journal or lecture, and finally you can create a wiki for your world and dump all the stuff there. The first option is obviously the wrong option, do that and your comic will guaranteed to be shit. I've found myself doing the wiki route, and what's great about it is the hotlink cross references and orderly structure. I'd suggest for you to create at least a local private wikia for yourself, it makes checking your own lore so much easier and convenient.

[AureliusSnow]

I actually do have my own private Amino that I use to put my character and world building information on. I'm also planning on having a comic prior to the start of my series explaining all the world building and such.
It'll mostly be for myself but I want it to be available to my readers in case they want to dive deeper into my world.
Definitely won't be putting any big info dumps into my comics because I don't want to bore my readers too much lol