What drives you to create your comic?

[Fierce_Chai]

I'm interested what your intentions in creating your series are?
For example like, if its just for fun, raising awareness on a topic or maybe as some sort of diary where you include your personal experiences?
Or is it a coping mechanism to deal with certain hardships?

You can also post your comic links here of course, please check each other out!

I think what drives me is wanting readers to enjoy and relate to the characters and their journey, to process my own personal experiences and raise awareness on certain topics too. ( And making nice color palettes)

GONE FOR GOOD | Tapas

[joannekwan]

I suppose my main intent with all my stories is to echo themes and media I enjoy but in my voice!

And what drives me to actually make them is the goal of getting it out there and making them as complete as I can. It's the finish line I'm after. Maybe there are other people cheering me on in this race, but I'm mostly running for myself, for my own sense of accomplishment.

[ar-ninetysix]

Honestly, I just wanna write a story that I can enjoy. Yeah, I wanna share that with others too, but if I can't enjoy what I'm making, then it'll feel like there's no point to it. I've always been the creative type coming with stories in my head before, and this turned into improvising some stupid fun stuff with my little sister. But this turned into a genuine desire to try making at least one comic in my life!

I got a lot of projects I'm working on, and I don't know if there will come a day when I'll give up on them, but in the meantime... working on novels and comic one-shots have been the most fun I've had in recent years, and considering where my life felt like it was going before that.. well, it's a welcome addition. I'm hoping I can make something any potential readers will be able to enjoy and analyze and all that~

[Rhonder]

I definitely am on the side of "Just for fun"! I've always liked drawing a lot and found that comics are a fun and interesting way to contextualize your work. Honestly I've been drawing comics from when I was like 5 and just kinda never stopped xD That said as I grew older and became interested in writing stories, I doubled down on comics as a storytelling medium. Like both my drawings and stories are just okay on their own, but when you combine them they have the potential to be better than the sum of their parts. I guess that phenomenon is more or less what I'm all about with comics~

[DasIstWunderblyat]

I'm sad, selfish, and can't do anything better
I don't have noble cause or anything.

[baasinsimple]

I this point I don't really know, but I'm usually there with an update.

[Jenny-Toons]

Fun!

I just wanna make stories for fun and share them.

If I can make a few bucks and get some good subs, that's a bonus. But this will always be my fun.

Nothing more, nothing less.

[Carossmo]

Mostly it's for fun, but there's a mix of reality of the living conditions in the Philippines, in my perspective. Writing stories that I enjoy while also bringing up a message to gain awareness.

One day when I do finish this series, I can look back at the good times writing them~

[unknown_user]

Mmm... because its plot, scenes and ideas can't leave my head in any other way besides being implemented in any form. And if they can't, I'm daydreaming instead of doing my duties

[Sean]

For Fun. Also because I wanna look into my own psychology through my works. Throw in a little bit of humanistic morality in there. Though I always try to sway away from my own biases and create diverse characters and personalities as much as I can, it's always imminent to be there.

[kittyblueeyes]

Goth Boy's Club is my first comic. I had never tried comics before. So I wanted to just write about my ocs and put it out there.. For me its the fun that's keeping me going. That and the practice. It's all new to me!

[monotone_ink]

The impending fear of death at any moment and the hope that my comics will let me (metaphorically) live on for slightly longer than my physical body.

[VibrantFox]

i think at this point I just wanna mak stuff that makes me happy and hopefully other people can enjoy too

even if its just one person who says "hey this brightened up my day a bit/ this was cool / made me smile" then i can be satisfied that I made someone feel something

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[silverraven0]

I don't know. I just want to do it for a silly dream of mine.

[SheiDraws]

To make a couple of folks laugh. Myself included

[JoFro]

To leave stories behind that will outlive myself and hopefully inspire people to create their own stories.

[dkjungster]

Lots of reasons- it's fun, I want to get better at drawing, I want to do this for a living, and I wanted to create a love story/romance without showing anything too sexual. And like other people already said, I want to create things that will outlive myself haha.

[SilentHamster102]

In the beginning drawing helped me to end my "hardships" let's say that. Than i started to have fun with all of it. And also because i have many ideas and i doubt that there is somebody who will realize them instead of me and anyway "if you want to make things good, make them by yourself" something like that, yeah

[OliviaMerteli]

Just for getting those stories out of my head.