What Inspired Your Comic?

[anthonychristou]

My comic Luminous Ages is inspired by old movies like the never ending story, labyrinth. It also is inspired by ancient greek, sumerian and egyptian Mythology. The stories it draw ideas from is Harry Potter, Inception and Fairytale. Allot of fantasy and mythology inspires the story. Believe it or not the mages have unique powers three schools of magic control dream magic so the powers are very unique and will be revealed.
http://tapastic.com/series/Luminous-Ages

[GFalconDX]

This is a really awesome question. For The Chronicles of SolLuna, it has a lot of inspirations, like from movies like Equilibrium, but with magic and swordfights alongside guns, and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. But it gets most of its inspirations from anime, like Full Metal Alchemist, Guilty Crown (w/o the plot holes) , and practically any fantasy and/or sci-fi story, and with a little of the style of the artist Moebius mixed into it.

[Lennester]

To put it simple it was actually college. Me and my buddy where very swamped and stressed from all our classes and major group assignments I'm a 3d animation major so when working on nothing but assignments it starts to kill you a bit so soon afterwards I saw my friend doodling a small comic saying this helps me relax and for a bout 2.5 hours we started talking about comics and then I got this idea to make it my series focus on two girls who work at a videogame store and a lot of misadventures both hyper cool and very bizarre and funny.

Thus Game-Her Girls was born. http://tapastic.com/series/Game-Her-Girls-
Check it out if you don't believe me XD

[whydocowsfall]

Polyphemus was inspired by studying Greek myths and wondering whether Odysseus was telling the whole truth about his encounter with the cyclops... I've always loved Greek myths, so writing about them from a different point of view seemed like the perfect thing for me! I'm definitely glad I started it. (:

[anthonychristou]

Luminous Ages is inspired by Greek, Sumerian and Egyptian Mythology. I really like all the ancient cultures and myths. I was inspired by the labyrinth and the never ending story and harry potter to make my comic. http://tapastic.com/series/Luminous-Ages

[Elwetritsche]

My comic "The White Crows" (http://tapastic.com/series/whitecrows) was inspired by so many things ... People I know, myself, fictional characters, mythology, things I'm angry about, things I like, etc.
Of course, watching anime and reading manga and comics was a big influence. I started out thinking I would draw a manga because back then I didn't even know about how diverse comics could be! Silly me only knew about cartoony and superhero comics. When I first took a dive into webcomics, it was like a new world of possibilities opened.

[joaoduartsilva]

At the beginning, before Kordurroi became Kordurroi, I just enjoyed drawing little aliens viciously fight over such a stupid thing as whether or not it's okay to wear shorts. Then, when I found someone to work on the series with me, the main inspiration became the Spanish Civil War. Not that the civil war was fought over ridiculous issues, it wasn't, but the whole setting, some storylines, the bitterness and the arc was based on it.
In terms of storytelling influences, the first one was the Palomar comics, by Gibert Hernandez. I love how he tells his stories using slice of life vignettes that build up to a higher story. I'm trying to do that with Kordurroi. After like 40 pages maybe readers still don't really know where we're heading, and keeping up with all these different characters in different places might be a bit too much to ask of people who are just browsing, popping in and ut once a week, if we're lucky but I think in the end it will pay off.

[serenitysquirrel]

The world I created for my Pathfinder/etc campaign.

[GHae]

I initially started A Simple Story About A Simple Creature for a contest on some other website and it wasn't going to be too long. I liked squirrels, and I wanted to write a sweet and short story about a guy who suddenly has a kid dropped on his doorstep.

Well, the contest ended and I didn't really do much on the comic, which was why I didn't win ,ha ha, but I thought it was a shame to just get rid of the thing so I kept it, thinking it could be useful elsewhere. Well one day, I don't know how or where the thought came from, but a sudden strange and crazy plot developed when I reread the comic and I thought "Well why not! Might as well!"

And so, from a sweet and short comic, it became a mystery/ drama webtoon.

[shazzbaa]

One of my college friends was developing his own setting/system for a table-top roleplaying game based on the idea of magical celtic runes bestowed on certain people by the gods that allowed them to cast spells.

"How do you learn new runes?" I asked him as I worked on my character. "Do you have to experiment, and like, discover it through trial and error? Do lots of mages have freakish magical problems from casting runes that weren't quite right yet before they discovered new spells?"
"No," he said, "I figure you probably, like, see a new rune in a dream, and that's when you're able to write it."

I still thought my idea was cool, though, so I started playing around with the idea of a world where magic worked that way. Somehow it diverged and became different enough to become its own story, AND THUS RUNEWRITERS WAS BORN c:

[Starfestival]

I really don't even remember. All I remember is being on winter break watching a bunch of animes and that inspired me to make my own comic.

[adrder]

Twosome pair: a couple’s tale In first time was inspire in our couple life with our cat, but the time past and now we have season two and its inspire in our couple life again but now we travel around the world so its more interesting

[Marton]

I made a zombie themed comic for a school assignment years ago. It was only 10 pages, but I liked the characters and as I went more ideas came. I made a second chapter but, I wasn't pleased with the direction it was going nor how my comic started. So I made an entire new comic based on the old one, and renamed it Zotagius.

[thesisterscomic]

The Sisters was inspired a lot by my own filthy love of 80s horror flicks, particularly Fright Night, a mutual enjoyment by the artist and I for the Dresden Files audiobooks, and my reluctance as a GM to run the wider World of Darkness games because Core/Innocents with a later dash of Hunter gets across a much better grittier horror feeling. Also probably some shenanigans in there of the many times I had to prevent my artist from playing a spellcaster in a game because he'd abuse the gonzo-bassackward powers they often get; so that's where the whole "boring powers, creative applications" mantra I tout comes from. Shows like Paranormal Witness, A Haunting, and the works of John A. Keel were pretty open influences.

Then the historical research aspect of it helped flesh it out. Cropsey, the Satanic Panic as a time period, and how those things mesh against modern paranoias and how really vapid and vulgar millennials from urban New England can be. Chuck in a healthy dose of my own personal aspects and my family life being in a huge family of vulgar, unpleasant, secret-keeping d-bags and you've sort of got the basic bog iron of the project.

Took a helluva long time to hammer that into something I enjoy showing people. Less horror, more domestic corruption, but that's street level urban fantasy for ya.

[driera]

Hi everyone,

Asgard's Ashes it was inspired by the Norse myths and pure hooliganism. Vikings, gods, giants .. what more I can ask for ?. I like comics that have a bit of everything (action, fantasy, eroticism, intrigue ...).

[UndefinableCreature]

Inner peace.........

[Alila]

Well, I began making my comics here, because I was really inspired by all of the comedy comics in Tapastic. I really though they were great, so I decided to make comics based on funny situations in my life.

[R.n.P]

For mine THE LAST SAMURAI http://tapastic.com/series/THE-LAST-SAMURAI http://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/the-last-samurai/list?title_no=15779 i was inspired by the best artist n author for action manga Kubo Tite the creator of Bleach
I dunno about other people who their best mangaka is but for me Kubo is the best

[naemeum]

My first comic DEMI (http://tapastic.com/series/demic) is based on my old comic very strongly. Second comic Jumpers (http://tapastic.com/series/Jumpers) is inspired by the song STARGET by Oral Cigarettes and by the game Gravity Rush. Both comics are also highly inspired by the manga D.Gray-Man and Hoshino Katsura!

[tonyrollinson]

For my comic Robotran and The Atomic Playboy I had a gag I wanted to do and built a story around it. I just hope that the gag is worth the story, or the story is worth the gag. Anyway, it was a simple as that.

I wrote a whole book once just so I could do a scene with a cartoon dolphin saving a kid following an idea I had after maybe one too many beers sitting by the pool on holiday.

I'm going to call it creativity and not just stupidity.