I was at home and I saw this video. I got so inspired by its imagery and song, that I literally said to myself "I have to do something with this"
And I just started sketching and making notes, until I finally came up with my idea. I then named my comic "Everdream: Stars Hold no Boundaries" in homage to this song.
It came from my absolute hate for straight love triangles where the two LIs fight for the affection of the main girl. I-I really hate those. So I thought, "okay so what if love triangle but the two LIs end up together"
The plot of my comic evolved so much from this to the point that the love triangle business is just... nonexistent in the actual story.
Mine is a bit complicated one. But I think I can try and boil it down to three sources.
1. I had a dream with a story that grabbed me very much, and that story took place in a summer camp.
2. Few days after that we rewatched a few episodes of Gravity Falls and I reminded myself, that if we try doing a comic, we can try doing a short story of the week take on it to make it easier and compact.
3. The catchphrase from a slasher movie "S.S.D." that draws heavily on Russian scary stories for children. The catchphrase is about the only true scary story in the movie, and speaks about a demon called Horse-head, and it goes like: "You saw him? That means he liked you." It never quite let me go...
So that is how started working on a story about a boy who meets an eldritch entity during his time in a summer camp. And so it goes on
Both of my comics were actually inspired by prompts. Our Universe started as a writing prompt piece that turned into a comic, and My Demon Valentine was a submission for a Valentine's Day contest.
But as time went on, I slowly realized that these stories came from my need to see more wholesome paranormal romances.
I have a ding in my head when I realize I was wasting time doing something unoriginal and man up myself to make my own content, so there's that.
Mean Boys was inspired by a manga I read back in 2016 where I really adored the two main characters' dynamic and still ship them to the moon and back, but since it's a sports manga of course they're gonna stay platonic. So I think it was a mixture of "I want to create a dynamic like that between my leads" and my long-running, but ever shape-shifting idea of "sports manga but canon gay couples." Except then things happened, and stuff happened, and the leads' dynamic ended up only superficially similar to what I was once going for but way more interesting for it. It truly feels like my story now, and I can't wait to tell it in full!
well for my first Novel. I was inspired by my brothers trying to get him to love her using voodoo.
My second Novel... I used to chase my friends down the road with rose petals and throw them in their faces because I liked how it sounded. this resulted in everyone avoiding rose bushes like the plague when walking with me.
Well, before "Afterlifer" was a comic starring a queer kid, it was a novel starring a teen girl. It's been sitting on my hard drive for many years, and I decided to update it, making it closer to my own personal experiences and going darker and more surreal.
I was annoyed by the amount of real world politics with real world country names inserted into a fantasy setting....
My idea was inspired by occultism and Pokémon. I love mythology, occultism, demonology, angelology and reading about weird conspiracies (like Nephilim being real and their bloodline surviving the biblical Flood.)
I've always wanted to do a comic about people who fight demons and use them as familiars, but struggled with the idea of how they would capture them, where they would keep them etc. I was reading a book called "The Three Magical Books of Solomon" about King Solomon who famously sealed 72 demons inside a ring (called the Seal or Ring of Solomon) and commanded them to build his temple. He was an Exorcist and a master magician. Sometime later I had a dream and in it saw an Exorcist use a magic ring. Like a poke master she had collected a crazy arsenal of demons inside it and would summon them to defeat her enemies in battle. I woke up and wrote down everything I could remember.
Due to the lore I invented the ring was changed from Solomon's to Metatron's, but the man is still lingering around the comic. The Ring of Metatron holds only 72 demons and the school where Exorcists are trained is called the Sol Moon Umbraculum: it can be read as Sun and Moon or Solomon. Umbraculum was/is an umbrella used to give shade to the pope and symbolizes his power. In the universe of my comic Exorcists protect humanity and serve the Divine (a.k.a the pope). They act as a sort of protective umbrella holding demons at bay, so, I thought the word fit quite well.
I was trying to one up a fellow writer.
Okay, so this writer I know (my sister and on again/off again beta reader) was writing a story loosely based off the characters of the Sander sides youtube videos (Deceit had just been introduced at the time). Anyways, she kept asking my input into her story and characters (stuff like is this in character for them etc.) and after a while, I got to thinking that I could probably do a better job with the characters. Not to say she was doing a bad job, I just thought I could do it better since I've been writing longer than her. Still, I didn't have a story to tell with them yet.
Then I was reading a fan comic (I think it was of MHA) where a character switched with an older version of themselves. It focused on the younger version in the future, but it got an idea stuck in my head. How weird would it be to come home to a complete stranger in your apartment, claiming to be your roommate from the future? And thus, the start of RomaMates was conceived.
I've gotten inspiration for individual parts from all kinds of places, but the initial idea came from those two things.
Spoiler for the movie The Green Mile
I can't really elaborate on how it inspired me because that would be colossal spoilers, but I found this scene from the Green Mile so moving as a kid that I ended up making a story about it.
I remember i used to get sooo much inspiration for my art from social media! My facebook, twitter and instagram are full of artists, illustrators, comic artists and so on...otherwise most of the stories that i have imagined came from MUSIC! Maybe even a random song that i've listened already 20000 times, but somehow at some point clicks me right and bam! a story i can't get out of my head.
Now this thins hasn't happened to me in a long while, but i just noticed how music affects me a lot in my life, even for regular drawings.
Otherwise again, tv series, other comics and stuff like that, i don't have many hobbies ^^"
Years ago I ran a Mutants and Masterminds game for my friends where they played the absolute worst superheroes (a violent, middleaged alcoholic that controls water and a vain, spoilt, cosplaying daddy's boy with vast mental abilities) that hated each other as much as they did any of their 'villains' but every week managed to get even more monsters/superhumans/government agencies pissed at them and just had to keep sticking together for a 'little bit longer'.
It was about the most fun I've ever had in a tabletop game and I always promised my players (and the people that used to read our campaign journal) that if I ever found an artist I'd adapt it into an actual, honoest to God comic book.
I've been working on my story for over 10 years.
I like to write genre works and then subvert the tropes associated with them. So my story started out as a cyberpunk story with a cyborg who didn't want to be a cyborg. Ironically, it was a plot point in Deus Ex Human Revolution, which teaser trailer dropped around the same time (not the one with the infamous "I never asked for this").
In the end, the main thing that inspired my story was cyberpunk movies, like Blade Runner and Robocop, sprinkled with some Japanese cyberpunk.
I've redrawn this comic so much over the ten years that it doesn't much resemble the original pitch.
For Ghost Guide, I've always had a love of ghost stories from Haunting of Hill House to A Fine and Private Place.
For The Power of Stardust, I was inspired by golden age superhero comics (of course given the subject matter) and the 1960's version of The Outer Limits.
Probably the little things I noticed in life. Sometimes from a dream, from a random music video I found on YouTube, a patch of flowers by the sidewalk, a flock of birds across a clear afternoon sky. Anything, really. Inspiration is strange that way. Might sound super cheesy, but I’d like to think that our stories have always been within us, just waiting for the right ‘trigger’ to bring forth the ideas to life 
