What Inspired You Make Your Own Comic?

Inspiring to read! For me it was similar, I loved Manga, Anime and Comics my entire life. I grew up with Toonami and never thought I could do it myself. A few years ago I actually decided why not and wrote my first script. It was Nephlim, now I cant draw for anything so I set out to find an artist on the Net. Luckily I was able to and once artwork poured in I realized wow people will draw my stories! I set out to do another comic and here we are 3 years later with over 20 artists drawing 8 different series that I wrote! If I never would have tried then I wouldn't be here now doing this so yea don't give up until you try and above all else BELIEVE it is POSSIBLE and be POSITIVE. It really does work.

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Well don't give up! I am writing a script for a
publisher now and of course doing the other stories too! Its a lot but if we don't push ourselves we don't know how far we can go! Good Luck I will be looking forward to your book.

I'm always interesting to read why other people do this thing!
For me, it was partially because I always wanted to do a comic. Partially I was inspired by Sluggy Freelance. Partially it was because I couldn't stand any comic books I was reading and decided to make my own.

When I met my husband (Thom-the artist on Shadowbinders) he was already doing comic type work and had an original idea for the story that never panned out. I had wanted to write for a long time, but I have trouble with the grammar sometimes, and that kept me from trying. I have a degree in art, but my art style is not well suited for comic-type work. When I wanted to write, I never gave comics a thought, because I knew it wouldn't work for me.

I watched Thom do other comic projects and things and I always wanted to be part of it too. He went on to color Disney comics and I was lucky and got to work on them too. Then I started to have a different idea for the original Shadowbinders story he told me. I came up with a bunch of new characters and ideas and I wove some of his story into it.

Then, I had to beg him to do it for a couple of years. He did and now we are doing it. Since then, we have a bunch of ideas for new stories that we are working on.

Why I do it is because I really love to tell stories. I also love getting to work with my husband closely on projects and we hope someday to do this all the time. We are getting closer to that goal.

I've always liked working on story-driven projects like short films, animation and comics; and I stuck with comics because it was the first craft I knew about (I was like 2 or 3 when I began reading them), and because they were pretty easy for me to do on my own. It wasn't until 2008 that I began developing my drawing skills to the point of being comfortable drawing narratively -- prior to that, I had only made sprite comics.

But in the end, "what makes me do my own comic?", really. It's a combination of things. A way of sharing my own view of the world and my life experiences seen through another world and made-up characters; and the fact that I feel that I've been thinking on these ideas for so long that I feel like I should give them a productive purpose.

Ideas are like eggs. You carefully nest them for a long time until they're ready to hatch.

the first time me and friends talk about anime and manga .. until one of us to say that what if we created a story tells of a group of teenagers who go traveling into the world of anime. and we all make the story from beginning till end .. and finally after seven years the story completed..
but now we are remaking the story so the world can see the and read about it..
the first version is too ugly.... and i'm still learning..
i hope i can complete the story..
from chapter 1 to 1000..
from season 1 to 3. or maybe 4.. all by myself...
i hope my story will be the longest fanart,fanfic, fanmade comic ever!!!!

One reason which still guides me today is I felt I had something to say, something that could teach something or get people thinking in a certain way. I still feel I can still do this. If you think about it, there is no bigger classroom than the world.

For me, it's mainly because I'm not at any point where I can have someone do anything for me, but I figured better to have something to build off of than waiting and having nothing, ya know? I've always loved drawing cartoons and comics (since I can even remember), but I love writing scripts and stories even more. I would love to get to the point where I have an established style and I can mainly design a few things and write, then oversee another (and better) artist portray what I've written within certain confines. But, for now, it's an army of one for me. :]

Early mid-life crisis, I think.

I made a comic about...2-3 years ago(?) and it wasn't the masterpiece i was hoping i could make :))

Skip ahead to current time, with my art and story skills having time to mature through practice and passion. I decided it was the right time to make a comic

My current comic's idea actually came from a beautiful doodle i made one day. It's hard to explain but to me, that drawing i made "had a story to tell"

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I was tired of picturing my stories in my head. Every since I could move my hands, I drew. I drew because I had difficulty expressing myself and speaking with people but my art was horrible, worse than a child at my age. However, I became good because I drew so much and despite the fact that manhua was all around me, I never really got into manga until I was 12. Kicked off from there, I found Smackjeeves a year ago and uploaded C.I.S.P.I. on impulse. I don't have the courage to look at it it was so bad, at least in my opinion but that got me started on doing my stories. It got me started on writing out my plot, setting up a script, doing thumbnails and working on the art of paneling. The reason I started my own comic is because I happened to come across others and the idea was appealing. It gives me an opportunity to take care of my own website, be responsible by setting a schedule, and work on my drawing skills.
... Now that I think about it, that narrative of myself was probably unnecessarily...

throughout my childhood, i've always had this latent desire to create. i have fond memories of trying to make stories, even trying to make my own solo band (not as great as it sounds) in elementary school, until eventually i discovered making comics. now, as a child i played a lot of video games, but these stories i was experiencing, it wasn't enough. it didn't quite quench my thirst, or so to speak.

so when i discovered making comics, i fell in love. i fell out of love, stopped doing it for a year, rediscovered, fell back in love. it's just like a relationship, in my mind. i had moments where i hated it, moments where i loved it, i have memories, i have passion, and i also have sadness from it. i spent a lot of time, most notably in high school, alone in my room drawing. disregarding friends, people wanting to hang out with me, and eventually let it ruin relationships. while i wish i could sit here and say that was the wrong thing to do, i know deep down it wasn't. because creating comics is what makes me truly happy, and will continue to truly make me happy.

I used to do photography as a creative outlet and didn't draw for years. But that got old and over the past year have been doodling a LOT. Usually on weekends while out for coffee with my wife. Although I got some wonderful attention doing versions of popular characters1, and it's been great practice, it wasn't really my own work.

So, comics seemed like a great way to challenge myself while making something new. As part of that challenge to myself I decided to ink-and-scan and avoid fixing things digitally. No undo with ink. I'm not always happy with the results1, but it's getting better.

I draw comics just to get all the ideas swimming in my head onto something. As what made me make The Lostland, I honestly never knew I wanted to make it yet. An old project of mine that was 4 years in the making kinda failed to impress a(now defunctus) small webcomic site, so I moved on to the next idea, half-invested in it.

I only really started getting into the story once the first version of it(under a different name) also flopped, and I decided to disappear and spend the whole year working it out. And then December 21st, 2012 rolled around, and while it didn't take off like a rocket, it did get people interested in what I was doing, and today I devote most of my time to improving this old comic as I go on.

I always enjoyed drawing and I felt that I needed to give a story to the characters I drew, soon I came up with the idea of DragonGod and after several rough drafts I made a final draft and posted it on Deviantart and then on this site.

Japanese industry is what got me to make my own comic, I prefer how they do their mangas in print.

I really wanted to draw a web-comic and tell a story that people would read. I had a million and one ideas in my head but didn't feel skilled enough to draw any of them. Around Christmas time, I had an idea from my physics teacher when he gave us a holiday assignment about if Santa was real or not. I based my story off of that and released a one-shot. But a couple of people liked it so I continued the story. Its weird writing a Christmas story when its no longer Christmas time but its fun and I'm glad I started. ^^