When I was a teenager, I was inspired in doing a comic thanks to manga contents such as bleach, Naruto, One piece and so on.
However, I don't feel like heavily invested on the contents I make before, so time went on and after college, I discovered this new manga called Kingdom and it heavily inspired to make my own but what should I make?
What is there I could differ my content from other's? I see many doing meme comics, real life experience contents, Hero comics that look like it is inspired by Shonen Jump, DC, Marvel, and Image comics and other's inspired through movies, successful contents from authors and video games. I am not sure what to do, so I look back to the manga; Kingdom and then suddenly it hit me.
I look at the history of the middle east, the rise of the Rashiduun Caliphate, the fall of the Umayyad and the rise of the Abbasids, the rising Emirate of Cordoba, the clash between the Mamlukes and the Ottomans and even Arabic Mythologies and 1001 nights.
I realize there is no contents that is influence by middle eastern mythologies, cultures and history, so I make a comic called "Mukhtar" (The future main character's name). That way, I could differ my comics from many other's.
So far, it is all good. Many of my readers said that the world building in my comic sounds too realistic with the exceptions of Fantasies.
You can take a look at it here if you're interested: