My first 2 comics3were drawn in my sketchbook, the next 3 were done in Photoshop with a Wacom Intuos pendiente small and the latest ones were done on my iPad mini, in sketchbook Pro with a adonit not mini. The last method has been my favourite so far, because it's not complicated and I can produce comics a lot quicker.
i draw a pentagram in the basement with my own blood and perform a hellish ritual.
so a wacom tablet and my laptop basically.
I use a huion tablet and clip studio paint, and some illustrations in sai for my comic Axis2, and all the planning and story stuff I sketch out with pencil and paper. The actual process is rather simple, just sketching, line art, flatting, rendering, effects, and then dialogue.
I use a Wacom Intuos tablet, Clip Studio Paint(which is on sale for $25 for the basic version; $79 for the EX version- sale ends next week at midnight on Monday), Photoshop, & Illustrator. I do my layouts, pencils, & inks in Clip Studio- then color in Photoshop. You can color in Clip Studio, but I tend to use a lot of gradients in my backgrounds and I dont like CSP's gradient tool. I letter my books in Illustrator; you can letter comics in CSP as well, but I havent used the lettering tools yet. I will try them out one day....
in There was a War i use paint tool SAI and a huion tablet, and also thumbnail and sketch in paper. ive considered converting to photoshop for the text features, but i know SAI too well to part with it.
I do thumbnails/planning on paper, with any old pencil I have lying around, and then I work in Manga Studio 4 for panels, speechbubbles and stick-figure rough sketches, and then do clean sketches, ink and colouring in Manga Studio 5/Clip Studio Paint.
When working digitally, I use a big old Wacom Cintiq 21UX hooked into my desktop computer. It's a beast that takes up half of my desk, but it's really worth it. <3
My comic, Panic Mode2, is currently (and planned to forever be) drawn in Clip Studio Paint (I have EX, but only because it can make some fancy animations outside of my comic stuff). I've been using my older Wacom Intuos 4 doodle tablet lately as it has all the buttons and fixings I could ever really need.
When it comes to planning, it really depends on my thoughts at that moment. I don't really plan ahead, ever. I'll have an idea and think "THAT'S IT!" and I get right to it. I draw as I go, and I create dialogue as I go to fit the scene. It's not the most professional method, but I think it actually fits the hectic nature of the comic, and therefore all of the absurdity in it is true and unplanned. I guess you could call it "impromptu creation"... I dunno, I wanted to make "go with the flow" sound fancier. :')
On my comic1 I use A3 paper, any kind of pencil I can get my hands on and watercolors.
Then after scanning, it's photoshop time for color adjusting and speech bubbles.
I personally use Clip Studio Paint, which as noted is currently on sale for deep discount. They've indicated this may be the last time this year they do such a steep discount, so get on it while you can if you're interested! It's more than worth the price. I draw using a Monoprice tablet1 and have for some years. I started with Wacom, but I found they were more often overpriced and no better at all than Monoprice. I've heard other brands also compare very well.
I find that Clip Studio Paint does a great job organizing everything I need for an efficient workflow. It has pretty much everything you need for comic creation and, even though I'll use Automator (an OSX program if you aren't familiar) for some last-stage tweaks visually (mainly resizing in a way to please my exact and slightly obsessive preferences), I've just been using Clip Studio for everything recently. I used to use programs like Gimp and FireAlpaca for various things. I would still recommend either or both if you just want to try something functional with a lot of options. From what I understand, FireAlpaca is better than ever and has expanded its already robust functionality. It's one of only a few programs I've ever used where I could use a tablet and draw naturally, and I used it for quite a while in the past, before I discovered Manga Studio, which is now Clip Studio Paint.
Wacom comic (these new small fu°°ers), Krita (freeware), printing paper, pencils..
Did a Vid about the process from page begginning to end: here1
In the past I used to do it with pens and paper but for this new comic I am making I want to go full digital.
But I guess I cannot say completely no to the paper and do my thumbnails on paper.
Then it's photoshop and Cintiq pro 13, I've not had it for very long but I love it now. It gave me back some awesome feeling I had forgotten about drawing. I guess cintiq are something else !
exemple 
Jim's Days1 goes through several stages of production :U
1) Hand drawn thumbnails/scripting: Get the gist of the story flowing, I prefer to have the chapter done in this format before moving on to the next step
2) ARHTING ON SAI: Basically, draw, color, make the pages pretty :U
3) Finalization and adding text: Sai doesn't allow text on mine so, I place everything on PowerPoint and work from there :U I also use it to make animations and visual novels :U
I'm kind of up in the air about computers I use right now. But I want to stick with tablet/PCs. I love drawing on the screen and the mobility.
Otherwise, I draw my comics in Clip Studio Paint. Sketch to color. I use to keep a sketch book with the thumbs for the pages, but I haven't been doing tthat lately. I'll probably get back into that when I'm done revamping things.
@handpressbean yes, Huion costs less than a Wacom.
I draw Remember like this: First I make a storyboard into my sketchbook:
Looks not pretty and only I can read that XD
Afterwards I make a Sketch on Din A4, where I work out the details:
Sometimes I do changes before tracing it on thicker paper (Canson 180g/m² oder Color Coly 300g/m², whatever I have at hand) then I ink it with a Deleter Saji Pen and ink:
And last but not least I use good ol' Mangastudio EX 4 for the screentones and the text =)
I'd love to draw with a tablet, too, but until I can handle that, there will be a loooong way to go! 
For my series Obscurato1 I work completely digitally in Clip Studio Paint. I start with a 600ppi 11x17 canvas zoomed way out when I do my thumbnails. I have a Wacom Cintiq Companion that I use to do the pencils, inks, then colors. My letterist prefers to use Adobe Illustrator for adding the speech bubbles. Then I use Illustrator to export out pngs for the web.
I use an HP laptop, a 2011 MacBook Pro, and a five subject notebook.
Guess it yet?
I'm a writer.
Lame joke, I know.
i've used several different programs for art over the years, but for Dawn of Chaos i use Manga Studio 5 for the bulk work (from making tumbnails all the way to painting and adding text) and Photoshop CS6 for tweaking colors and the like. my tablet is a Cintiq 12wx, which is great and ive had it for about 3 years now, but i'm looking to upgrade soon.
I sketch my comic, Magical Renegades, with pencil and paper first, then draw over the scanned pages using a Wacom Bamboo tablet and Inkscape. Almost the entire digital process with my comic is done with Inkscape, and pages are exported as .PNGs into Photoshop CS for the finishing touches, such as lighting effects and text effects that are much easier to do in Photoshop. The extra side strips I made were sketched on paper, then digitally cleaned up and edited with Photoshop.
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