What comics made you want to make comics?

[Anthien]

One Piece, because of its sheer amount of world-building, characters, and memorable moments. Also a lot of rom-coms like Pastel and Yume de Aetara.

[Rochrok]

Miyamoto Kano's Rules series. especially Hydra which is my favorite.

Hydra (Hydra Series 1-4)

[Rhonder]

My very earliest comics from like pre-middle school, I honestly have no clue LOL I have a lot of short fan-fic type comics of like Pokemon, Digimon, Sonic from like Elementary school and not sure which ones I read to give me the idea to use drawings that way. Certainly something, though.

Middle School is when I was introduced to shonen Manga (alongside shows like Naruto airing at the time, which was really popular) and that was hugely influential to my comic making thereafter. I liked to draw characters doing cool action-y things, which lead me to fan comics set in those worlds, and then finally to writing my own original story in that style. I wrote out like 7 chapters of that series and drew 2 of them and that was all the farther I got though xD I turned to just drawing regular pictures afterwards, then mostly stopped through college.

Fast forward to today and it's mostly the awesome work posted here that's pushed me to try and get back into comic making! It's really inspiring to see all of the awesome stories that people create, even while having other jobs and responsibilities going on. Although I haven't published anything yet, I'm working hard towards starting my first short comic :]

[TACOBERTO]

Yeah! It reads like a dense, heavy novel sometimes. It convinced me that comic's can be used to tell really deep, complex stories and that I could take a shot at it if I tried.

[lunaartemisasama]

Truth to be told after reading Questionable Content XX years ago, I was like, maybe I can try? And then I realized I didn't even had a comic idea lol.

Watching how he started made me feel that maybe I could do it. Actually it really encourages me when I see the art evolution of some comics.

Of course I read comics since I was in elementary school (mostly the gag strip from the newspaper) and manga, but I really feel it like it was something really far away and that you need to be a pro to do it. But now I am like, why not??? is not like I am gonna lose something lol.

[KabraKare]

For me it was manga "Paradise Kiss".

[jpnakashima]

I never read it! It's been in my list for ages!! I was too little (and too shonen) to buy it when it was published in Brazil, now it's been sold out for ages!

Nana is one of my favorite manga, I love Ai Yazawa. I've been waiting for the end of Nana, never losing faith

[feuersichel]

I started making "comics" around the age of 9. And I think it was the Asterix and Obelix series that got me started.

[KabraKare]

Paradise Kiss was my first manga I've read (10 years ago). And after that I've decided to make stories in pictures.

[KSlinger]

Sonic the Hedgehog comics maybe?

I used to read the Knuckles ones, the ones where he was having adventures on his own with his people? That shit was dark!!

Sandman

Yup, same. Loved that series through highschool.

i use to read these history books with comics inside of them, which made me want to convey jokes that way.

its called horrible histories

I LOVED THESE BOOKS! Couldn't get enough of them! Hands down my favourite series as a child.

For me it was Evan Dahm's Rice Boy that made me really want to make comics.

Lackadaisy by Tracy Butler was the webcomic that opened my mind to what was possible. I was 14 when I discovered it, I think?

Not really a comic, but Tealin's Harry Potter drawings made me want to inject life into my characters the way she did with J K Rowling's. I used to look at these all the time when I was 15 or so.

Also the Sandman series by Neil Gaiman and various other artists. I loved everything about it through highschool, especially Delirium, Dream's sister.

[phen]

I can't recall specific comics making me want to do them... I was largely influenced by animation to make comics when I was small (one of those little kid moments where you think you're this genius on earth, "why doesn't anyone just draw a storybook series with cartoon characters... ? I'm brilliant!")

When I was around 14-15, I did some light research on newspaper comics and I really liked "Cathy", it was just silly and fun. That research led me into discovering Jhonen Vasquez had long since created comics himself and as Invader Zim was a show I loved when I was younger, the art style of "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac" was like a major flashback (albeit in reverse, the dawning was uber non-linear, heh). It just looked cool and I pulled a humongous hunk 'o inspiration from it to try my hand more seriously at the end of high school.

[xanedis]

Oh wow! Another fan of Duty after School! That story was SUCH A RIDE! I still consider it one of the best examples of suspenseful/emotional storytelling.

Me, I think the story that made it for me was Gunnerkrigg Court. It's a good example of a story that grew with the telling, captivating me. I had originally stopped reading it about 20 pages in, but man... It gets SO MUCH BETTER!

But yes, Gunnerkrigg Court is what inspired me to create my own webcomics(as a writer - I can't draw to save my life)
http://gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1

[TimCaloweh]

I was in a small library in San Diego where i found this short shelf of comics and since i played Knights of the Old Republic...

This sparked my interest.

[zuggarts]

I was not very interested in drawing comics as a kid despite consuming a lot of manga. The series that made me think, "oh hey making my own series could be cool" was Berserk, but I think it was during my early teens when I discovered Planetes and Eden: It's an Endless World! that I was convinced this was something I actually wanted to do.

There was a certain atmosphere/feeling both gave me that left me craving for more, in the same way that Berserk did. Both also treated death in a way that--ditto, gave me peace? Made me accept it better?

Another big influencer was a short series called Masturbation Master Kurosawa.

As a kid who was very emotionally repressed and mentally isolated from others, it did a surprising lot in helping me deal with my feelings.

And finally, Daisuke Igarashi's Witches.

I never enjoyed fantasy as a kid--just couldn't understand the appeal behind it. I did however, have an insane obsession with certain historical figures like Alexander the Great. This work helped me reconcile historical interests with fantasy, and led me down a path of trying to seek out books/films/etc. that were "artistically chaotic"/"random", for a lack of better words.

[sirkbirb]

Theodd1sout inspired me to do comics myself :3

[Rivana]

I was obsessed with the 90s X-Men animated series. So naturally, I picked up a comic. It was actually a Wolverine comic but Rogue was in it and they were in Savage Land. Next thing I got was X-Men 1 by Jim Lee and I got hooked by his artwork. I collected X-Men comics for awhile. Rogue is my fave character

When I got into gaming, I also got introduced to Role Playing. I met a small group of people and I have been RPing with them for 12 years so far. They also became good friends of mine. At some point I was sketching scenes in my head (2009).

I then realized I wanted to immortalize the story we have since it became so cohesive and what better way to do that but with a comic. So I decided to take learning art seriously in 2010

So here I am.

There is still more to this journey but I wont bore you with the details. I apologize if I got derailed a bit XD

TLDR: X-Men #1 by Jim Lee

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[MayelV]

Well, for me, I think it has always been Dragon ball.

My family used to scold me and tell me to stop drawing my "gokus" (even tho they were not gokus) and do something more productive. Like idk, world peace or something.
Anyway, DB is a big inspiration for me and even if i'm not a great artist I enjoy making comics and I love drawing my "gokus".

[Jenny-Toons]

It was actually a book for me. The entire Captain Underpants Franchise

I loved this series with all my heart, and always, my favorite part was seeing George and Harold's comics and the artwork.

I dunno, I just LOVED seeing those, and they just clicked to me, and made me go "I wanna do this too"

[daeofthepast]

I remember that I was following the artist on DeviantArt when they were first plotting their comic, Awaken. I feel that watching someone else that I admire go through the process of making a comic inspired me to make one now, years into the future. :3

http://awakencomic.com/

[unicornfield]

This one

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