I love history and time travel hehe
Back in the late 80's and early to mid 90's I used to read a lot of comics, along with literature and novels, in about the late 90's I lost interest in comics. I'm a writer myself and I've always been writing stories, poems, and working on novels since I was young. Part of me wanted to draw my characters and I did doodle little characters for worlds I came up with, but I'm no artist by any stretch. So while there was a part of me that wanted to create a comic, I knew I never could myself. Fast-forward to a few years ago and I started writing a short story for a compilation. That short story suddenly ballooned in my mind and I had to withdraw it as it was no longer short at all.
When I started showing that story that had come from that to others, many people told me how they thought it would make an amazing graphic novel, and so I went to a friend of mine, who unlike me is an amazing artist and talked with him about it. We'd actually toyed around with the idea of a comic in the past, one with a story we were both working on, but that never got further than a few pages. When I told him about it and asked for his help though he was almost as excited about it as me, and well here we are now one chapter, a complete scrap and revising later. Cowan's Crux
I just took a look at your premise and I absolutely adore it. Definitely following it and can't wait for more!
Hii
I love making comics. Coz its like creating your own world
Mostly inspired me from a manga, a game i played back then when I was small
I have my own manga series now. But it has been many years exist somehow I failed to keep updating it and I'm really disapointed with myself
For many many years I have switch lots of job in a year just to find time to keep my manga updated back. Honestly its really tiring I have cried a lots.
Till now I'm still struggling with work and time. I'm tired but it just cant stop me I will still continue on drawing
Here hope u hav time on reading my comic its a fantasy action ^^
1 month later
What inspired me was my Friend back in highschool. We were working on an Animation project in animation club. Animation never had a break thru but it was fun lol 
. He told me to watch an anime known as Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. From there my inspiration to create my own story flourished.
9 days later
Hi everyone!
Onyisart, be careful trying to redo an old comic - one usually spends a lot of time on it trying to do it more and more perfect, it can become a dangerous vice!
My main motivation is my imagination: I have a lot of ideas, creatures and characters in mind and I had to let them out! ^^
I also try to show some injustices from real life, I always like to create new dimensions and universes to escape from this world we live in though.
If you want to know what I am talking about, some of my webcomics are Gods and The Next Trend
For me, I studied animation in college and work in that field. I spent years, between college and after amassing ideas that I thought would be funny to animate so I had a bit of a library of ideas but no time to execute them because animating takes forever. Especially when you're just trying to squeeze it out of any spare time you have.
Then as part of another class I took a few years later, a project we had to was create a comic based on a mundane "day-in-the-life" type topic. I did it and also added an extra layer of ridiculous story and had an absolute blast at it.
After that was done, I was hooked, I needed to make more comics. Then I remembered this stockpile of ideas that I had been collecting and I've been assembling these ideas and more into my story ever since.
My comic is Brainslug
The realization that I could be one of the gadzillion fan art artists glorifying popular title < insert name here >, but no one's going to tell the storys I have except me.
Being around really passionate and dedicated people, inspiration by the greats in animation, comics, film and writing, the joy of world creation... all these are also factors. But the main tipping point is the first one.
PS. I don't have anything against fan artists- I still draw fan art these days! My choice is to give my own works priority but I respect that all artists are entitled to choose their own paths : )
9 days later
After 4 years I'm surprised this is still being read and commented on!
School happened and so I stopped drawing comics. But then that gut of self-doubt came back and I went back to my inactive state. I didn't draw much except to try and improve at times.
But I've heard twice now "Get your stories out there" and (the second time I heard made me think of the first time I heard it) it sort of inspired me to get back in action.Plus, I was reading a TON of webtoons and I'm thinking "these guys aren't afraid to draw their stories. why the hell am I?"
I have had an idea for a while...many ideas actually...and I just drew one to start the brain train going AND I'm back again and I am HOPING I WILL finish my new comic!1
I'm really happy to have my comic cap on! it feels good, though LORD knows I need a creative writing class! lol
10 days later
me , i make my comic because it is something i want to see,and its kind of an ode to my childhood can say
I was always writing and drawing stories so it almost came about naturally. As for our current comic, The Constellation Chronicle1 my friend and I were in an RP together. It was actually school based and two of our characters fell head over heels for each other. But the RP broke up and we never got to see what might have been.
A few weeks later, we were talking and she mentioned she had always wanted to do a webcomic and I knew how to draw so we decided to go for it. We're going to finish this dang romance dag nabbit!
I work as a programmer and found myself reading a lot of brilliant case studies on business techology. I thought to myself there's some really good material that hobby techies and entrepreneurs would love to digest if it were more entertaining. Since I have a background in art and plenty of material to reference... a webcomic just seemed like a big project I could grow into over time.
I started making comics, mostly because I was inspired by manga (i.e. Naruto) to start making visual stories.
I stopped for a bit, but what got me going again was running into stories that I had a hard time making in just novel-form. I've never been too good with words, so I couldn't express that something was only visible on film, or that the current narrator wasn't quite right in the head.
So I switched to a more visual medium .3. Not to say it's easier to tell stories with comics, as that comes with a whole other set of challenges, but this format is definitely one that works best for me.
wow this topic's still alive? okay so i decided to make on of my own because of a bunch of creators streaming about makin comics and what they said inspired me so i dropped all doubts and published my first episode
1 year later
- To meditate lol but honestly it helps to calm my mind when I draw...
- I keep getting ideas when I came across something random or funny in life...then I thought, why not gather all these ideas and share with others?
- I want to make other people happy...well, like...I hope my comic cheer people up when they have a bad day
Other than all that...I just purely love to draw...lol
I always wanted to make one but I didn't know how. I grew up watching my father draw; learning from him and marvel.
It wasn't until I discovered anime/manga that I really wanted to draw a comic. Sailor moon, Pokemon and Hamtaro started it all for me. I practiced drawing the characters by looking at them until I could draw them from scratch.
Then I started to play around with it and started to draw my own characters. I started with the story first before I actually thought of drawing characters and outlines for them.
When I knew how I wanted my characters to look; that's when the storyboards and comics came about. I made about 30 or more comics (paperwise) before I started publishing online.
11 days later
These guys:
Pretty much everything I love about comics is put into these three series. Comedy, drama, relatable characters, gorgeous art, good blend of pacing and plot twists, good world, actually had conclusions, everything. I've said before that my dream is to draw like Jeff Smith and write like Bill Watterson.
That, and my brother is also a writer/artist! I think a lot of him rubbed off on me.
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