What is it about your comic?

[DarkestPaladin]

How did you start off with your comic/ how did you come up with it's story? Why did you come to tapastic to share it? Why do you want to share your comic with others?
My comic started off as a collaborated story between me and another writer (not on this site) we came to an agreement and decided to make The Paladins a comic to share with others - since the story gained over 6k views in a few months - and is still going. Don't forget to share and post your comic here so I can see it too!
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For TCOF I came up with on my own during a strange roleplay a few years ago. The main character developed quite beautifully and I've ran with her ever since.

[toonsfera]

Lets go:
Bokushi started as a desire to draw something for kids, the idea came when I was thinking in draw something related to the farm and some prototipes came with many animals.
Slow & Quicky was based in some comic strips that I did and wanted to connect with Bokushi story, don't remember how I imagined the characters.
Scarlet Black is based in a dream and I made the story based on it, the same for Rearth (will start on tomorow here).
Many of this stories I did for the Brazillian readers, but I wanted to bring for a larger audience and tapastic was the choice after some research.

[James_Ulmen]

The Paladins is looking pretty cool so far. I'm interested to see where it goes.

My comic Space Guys started off as doodles that I did back in high school. I had no intention of making it a comic back then. If anything I wanted It to be written short stories or a complete novel. I decided to make it into a comic last year after I had some success with some other web comics. I post it in other places but Tapastic has a great community surrounding it. I mainly share it here to see what other creators/comic-fans think about it.

[efdvorsky]

Oof that's a good question. First off they were different characters I had in a sketchbook based on dreams or me zoning out in class; and one day, after a frustrating exam, I drew all of them together and things clicked. It began falling into place and for a while I was just experimenting with different ideas and scenarios. But I got obsessively into it.

For a long time I had a sense of disconnection from society and people around me due to depression, I still do sometimes, and Cosmic Fish kind of covers this sense of dehumanization except in a very literal sense? Later on, I just thought on a whim to make the comic for a contest and was doing really well until my tablet died and I dropped out. Left the site not feeling confident enough to continue, feeling a little ashamed, and then started picking it up again a few months back.

Tbh I found Tapastic by googling other webcomic hosting sites, and just figured it'd be easier for one of my friends to read the comic here, that's how it started, hahaha.

Now I just hope people enjoy the story, maybe identify with the characters and go with them through this journey. It's just really fun for me to write, and I'm hoping the same goes to readers. We're humans, afterall, storytelling and sharing experiences is in our nature. : D

[joannekwan]

I chose Tapastic because its layout is beautiful and the UX/UI is the nicest of all comic sites from what I've seen. I was recommended the site by a friend.

Demon House - I wasn't looking to start a webcomic at all, but I felt so inspired by the ones I was coming across on tumblr last year that I decided to do one. Around the same time there were a lot of demon-related things popping up and I designed my own demons. I thought they looked cool so over the course of a couple months I developed the general story. Initially the series was for me to get better at colors and just to challenge myself to create something on a regular basis. I've always loved drawing stories so it was about time I actually made one to share with the world. I decided to share DH just to see who would like my stuff. I was pleasantly surprised.

Heavy Horns - I had sketched a random character and found him to be quite appealing and drew more of him. I then came up with another character that could be a possible love interest. On a whim I posted an illustration of the first guy here on Tap, promising that if enough people showed interest I would make a series about him. And show interest they did! I had to come up with a general plot in a week and then I eventually fleshed it out into a full 10+ chapter romance. For this series I want to present a story different than your usual BL fluff or yaoi smut. I wanted the two leads to act more like the real men that I know rather than the predominant stereotypes that saturate the media. Anyway, I love my unromantic slo-mance devoid of blushing and sparkles, and it's thanks to the enthusiastic Tap community that I was pushed to develop it.

Erie Waters - This was originally pitched to a queer supernatural romance anthology but was rejected. I initially had a much different story at the beginning, but thinking it was too complicated to fit 11 pages, I simplified it and changed multiple things. I submitted it, got rejected, but I liked my premise so much I stretched it to a full story. The first chapter is essentially what was pitched, but since I have all the freedom with it now I expanded it to focus on four characters and gave the new three backstories incorporating history and folklore (both of which I have a passion for). This series is mostly for myself, I wanted a challenge where it all had to conclude in 5 chapters with each one being equal in length.

[keii4ii]

Heart of Keol is a fictional, embellished reflection of a lifechanging heartbreak (nothing romance-related) that I went through. It's literally what the story is about: do my friends and family give a fuck about me? Does ANYONE?

It was years in the making before I drew the first panel, and I didn't realize any of that until after I'd drawn the first couple chapters. Once the realization hit, everything made sense.

I have to tell this story. I have to help the main character find the answer to the italicized question above. Even though his answers will be different from mine, I still feel like if I don't tell his story, I'd be denying my own heart to recovery.

As for choosing Tapastic... great site design, plus a push notification system! That thing is a MUST.

[jacintawibowo]

How did you start off with your comic/ how did you come up with it's story?

Just like you, we work together as a collaborated project! We had only a day to come up with Tales from the Well, so it had a lot to do with deciding what story we wanted to tell for the long run. What do we like to draw, what characters are fun to write, what will we sincerely have a fun time doing for a long time, etc. We decided we wanted to tell a challenging children's story with a diverse cast, since that's what's missing in children's books.

Why did you come to tapastic to share it?

It was on the list of top recommended sites by our professor. We were attracted to the modern look of the site as opposed to SmackJeeves, and the community is A+ .

Why do you want to share your comic with others?

I grew up with these kind of stories and webcomics, and I love the fact I can now share that experience with others!

[dracoplato]

Zenchav is a story I've been working on for over 14 years now. The story itself is a mixture of all of the stories I've thought of during that time and connected through varying elements. I came up with it through thoughts generated by my various interests over the years, mythology, theology, human relationships, and anime influences, lol! I never planned to post it onto Tapastic but eventually I decided to because I was perturbed with my webhost for my main site, and rather than making a whole new site I decided to bring it to this site. I guess I wanted to share it so it felt like it had more worth than just being an amusement for myself. I'd like it if other people enjoyed it of course, but I can't say I made it with other people in mind since it was more that I just wanted to read it and play with the characters.

[AnnaLandin]

Grassblades started off as a pretty vague thought about 3-4 years ago, and the thought was this - "I really like wandering samurai-stories. I should do one of those some day."

And then I let it sit in the back of my head for a while, kind of bubbling away and growing more complex. I doodled some grumpy swordsmen in my sketchbooks, and somewhere along the way hit upon the idea that hey, maybe he should have someone to travel with, and wouldn't it be kind of funny if this super-grumpy man had to take care of a child? And so Akane was born.

That's pretty much where things stood for a long time - I added a character here and a character there, made up a few vague plans for scenes and plot-twists, but nothing very definite, and it's not like I had a proper ending in mind, or even a central conflict. Heck, I didn't even have a villain! It was like I'd hit some blank wall I couldn't get through, and it was starting to look like Grassblades would forever be nothing more than something to fill my sketchbooks with.

Then, a little over a year ago - in late October 2014 - I decided to have another go at brainstorming, sat down with my sketchbook.... and had a breakthrough. I figured out who the antagonist was, and why. And once I'd figured that out, it took me about two hours to do a general outline of the entire story, from beginning to end. I've been working on the comic ever since.

Also, "I should make a wandering-samurai story" has now become "I should make a story about dealing with loss and trauma recovery and allowing yourself to care again after you've been hurt, thinly disguised by a layer of swordfighting and grumpy accidental dad-jokes."

I came to Tapastic because I heard it was a nice place with an active community, and I wanted a mirror for my main site, in case anything happened.

[TheSignPainter]

Alright here we go:
Hello, I'm the creator of my humble little comic, "Let's Go on an Adventure!"
My original plan for my Tapastic account was to start working on the comic I postponed, The Rain Will Not Stop a Journeyman, however I felt I was rather inexperienced and untouched in terms of making comics. Scenery, of all things, plays a HUGE roll in Journeyman, however I felt I had very little skill in that sort of field. And thus, my idea for Let's Go on an Adventure!was born.
Normally, it's taken me quite a few years to piece together the stories for my comics. Journeyman has been under construction since about early 2013, while my main story I wish to save for when I'm proficient in drawing, Transcendence, has been under construction since 2009. However, Let's Go on an Adventure literally only took two days of planning and the entire story was drafted out. Does it make it a bad story? No. I meant to for it to seem short, sweet, and child-like, as the main cast is entirely children. In fact, I'm very pleased with the story in terms of writing. I wanted it to tie into Transcendenceas nicely as possible, and it did, luckily. How? I will not tell. But In terms for story, I'm happy with it.
As for the art- this comic is made for COMPLETELY experimental purposes. I'm doing my best to find a comic style that suits me and looks pleasing to the eye, and it's been difficult. Hell, the comic is only 8 pages at the moment and I've already changed 12 million things between each page. It's rough, HELLA rough, to say the least. But I'm happy it gets to be my start in the comic-making business. I'm not perfect, by any means. But this will help me practice and get me where I want to go. The Tapastic community has been nothing but sweethearts in terms of support, and I hope I can continue to draw in more people.

[camillabluejay]

Kindred Sun was an accident! I write alot of stories with a friend of mine, and we always wrote these two characters, wandering through a strange fantasy land. We gave them backstories, started figuring out their families, loved ones, and general past.
....Then we decided we liked the ex-boyfriend of one of those characters, and that he was much more interesting. So we dropped those characters, and wrote about him and his buddies instead, and that became this comic

For Tapastic, I agree with @joannekwan, it's just a really pretty site, polished and professional-looking. And people have been really friendly!

And I'm sharing it to get better, both in writing and in drawing. Having active comments and critiques will be stimulating. I've always been really shy about sharing my work, and I want to stop doing that.

[heterodont]

FAR OFF, 3 YEARS AGO, DUMB LIL 15 YEAR OLD ME DECIDED 'hey comics look like a neat format i want to try that out'
now im stuck here

just kidding, in 2012 I drew the first page of Kongene Faller. I had been developing it as a story for a while just for the sake of developing a story, but it didn't occur to me to try out drawing comics until I read the (now defunct) webcomic Zombie Waffe. That comic was a MAJOR inspiration for me. I just stuck with making comic pages because it's genuinely fun and gives me something to draw. I don't know how I came up with the story, just bits and pieces getting connected together until I had SOME semblance of a plot. I joined tapastic because it seemed to be filled with...activity, compared to smackjeeves at least. Now that I've been a member for 5+ months, I've also noticed how incredibly friendly and receptive the community is!

I frankly don't know why I share my comic with others! That's not meant to be in a hoity-toity attitude, I genuinely don't know. I guess because I'm proud of the work I've put into my comic and I want people to know and ask about my characters? It gives me such a fuzzy feeling when people ask about characters or friends tell me they thought about them.

[Mharz]

The Angel with Black Wings actually started of as a school short animation project back in 2011. Then I decided to expand it into an abridged story. I was planning it to be an animation first but since it's basically impossible without manpower and a budget, I turn to webcomics instead and Tapastic is the only webcomic hosting I know at that time (since Inkblazers shut down before I was even able to publish my comic online).

This is actually an experimental comic. I made a vow to myself that If I'm able to finish this webcomic 'til the end then I'll be able to create another story.

I personally, like to believe that Guardian Angels really exists. I mean I heard stories that they were able to see one in their near-death experience but there's actually no solid way to prove it. I thought it would be cool if they really are real so I try to create a story where these spiritual beings actually existed and thus, my webcomic was born.

As for why I want to share my comic with others, basically, it's because I want to convey my feelings, opinions, perceptions, principles and beliefs that I could never ever say to others even my own family. I'm never really good at directly speaking to others because I try not to offend anyone and not get into any fights and sometimes I feel so heavy because I don't have anyone to open up and so I draw these characters as a form of my own salvation.I want these characters of mine to be known by other people as a means of gratitude towards them. (it's okay to call me insane for being grateful to a bunch of fictional characters. I don't really mind )

Okay I guess I went up being dramatic with that... hahaha! Please don't mind me I'm just gonna hide in my hole but please read my webcomic if you have the time.

[AffectedMind]

The origin
Bite Me was a soft porn... What? That's it about it's origin x'D
But I listened to some people and reviews and agreed with them. Sexuality totally covered the plot I wanted to tell and I immediately started to re-write my entire story. Now sexuality is just ocassional, tho I didn't even draw anything like that and it's already 7 chapters in. The pace is much slower, but it helps to tell the story better.
Oh and I like vamps! The main reason Bite Me exists.
Vamps are awesome.
Why did I choose Tapastic
Simply because InkBlazers shut down. I was looking for some alternatives and Tapastic was lookig nice.
Why I want to share my work
In the first place I wanted to become a comic artist people will recognize and as we all know sharing is caring. If I wouldn't post my story around the internet I wouldn't be where I am now. And it's truly wonderful feeling to see how people enjoy your work. Also it's a great way for improvement, feedback is the most important aspect.
Besides I can't imagine to create something and not share it with others. Already I'm having a hard time with wallpapers for my Patrons, I want to share what I created, but it is a perk and not everyone can see that, that's why I throw a freebie one for everyone xD

[Pandastrophic]

About 4 years ago I started to work on a webcomic and posted it on smackjeeves, it was in a manga format and back then I started reading more and more shoujo manga, it was typical, boring, too many characters that I couldn't balance around, and basically no real plot or direction. I also didn't like working on much since it stressed me out, nothing (story or art) was turning out the way I wanted so I just dropped it and decided making comics is not for me!

3 years of making and selling adoptables later
I discovered Tapastic through a friend and looking at the comics here is what inspired me to to try making comics again. The characters from the old comic always stuck around with me so I decided to completely revamp the old comic, update the designs, change the setting where the story takes place, develop the characters better, and change the plot entirely, very few things actually made it back from the old story. I'm much happier with the comic as it is now, the layout had changed from manga style-grey scale to webtoon scroll based colored comic, it's more work but I have a lot of fun with it and I'm generally happy with the outcome so far XDD

[Waterdrain]

Oh man hope this isn't to personal but I feel like I'm pretty comfortable to talk about it now

Okay when I started OOTO, I was in a rough spot in my life where I really disliked myself and everything that I was making at the time. So for the longest time I couldn't draw anything, and when I did try to draw I'd make myself feel bad and stop again, because I still felt terrible. I think the worst part of it was that I was really to afraid to talk about it to anyone. I even couldn't talk to my friends about how bad I was feeling because I knew deep down it was minor stuff that I shouldn't make a huge deal about. But it was still huge to me so I kept a lot of feelings to myself and those where the hardest few months I've ever been through. I started to look through some of my sketchbooks, because sometimes looking at the progress that you made will make you feel better, of course I still thought of my work as, bad but then I found a short story that I wrote a few months back and I really liked it and I thought it would be a good comic to work on. Plus I felt that I needed to work on something different than the other comic that I've worked on for a couple of years.
I'm really not sure how I found tapastic and what made me decide to post comics here, but I feel like I made a good decision because everyone here has been so incredibly nice! and I'm so happy to be apart of this community! Tapsastic has been a really good positive experience for me.I still have some trouble of getting myself to sit down a actually draw something, but I know I'm getting better because I'm looking back at my work and saying it's not that bad is a good step in the right direction. I can't wait to start working on comic pages again and drawing my characters again.
I sorry if this was all way to sympathetic, I'm really trying not to be to sappy, but I'm really glad to have found this site and getting to know some the awesome people on it.

[Doubtcent]

A year ago, (wow, has it already been that long?) I had been doodling and drawing a lot of different things, but nothing as a coherent "series".
So after much deliberation I decided to buy a drawing tablet and Manga Studio 5 for my computer. I wasn't thinking of anything great or amazing, but I sketched out a 4 panel comic on paper with a simple idea, then drew it again in digital.
And that was the beginning of English Project Shorts.

At the beginning, I sucked. I mean, really sucked. I had no idea how much I sucked that I was wondering why nobody subscribed after the first month or so. But I kept going. A little comic about a small grim reaper and his friends started, alongside a slice of life starring myself and my friends.

English Project Shorts was then comprised of two slice of life comics, EPS and Death Call JR, and each episode was a part of a different story. In a way, that kind of worked against me, but I didn't care. I kept going. After 90 odd episodes of EPS and DC JR, I ended up adding two more comics to the lineup: Black Light JR and Tapastic 101. Another story driven comic, and a dedicated advice column. With each new episode uploaded three times a week.

These went on until 110 episodes had passed. Along the way I was in the subscriber race, doing anything to reach more subscribers, but it was never enough. I was desperate for views, for likes and shares. I gained a lot over the summer, but at a certain point, my subscriber count stopped dead in its tracks. I would maybe get a new sub every so often, but I was always balancing my number around 175. I would always think, if only I could just reach 200, then it would be smooth sailing. But I was wrong. So very wrong.

What I didn't know was that new subscribers or potential subscribers were confused by what was going on. There were four different but similar comics being uploaded to one series, but which one was which? What the heck was going on? Who is that person? Wait, are they together? Why is there a storyline here and not there?

So I thought a lot about what I wanted to do. Maybe for about a week.
Looking back, my art had progressed to a point that my first episode barely compared. But I was, in a sense, in a rut. My jokes were getting stale, my episodes went up and down in quality, and almost nothing made any sense. So what was the solution?

It was pretty simple. I started over. Yup. I deleted my original series, split it into four separate series, and started over from the very beginning.

So I'm currently uploading some redone episodes, adding some new ones, and reinventing myself. I now upload four times a week with a weekly buffer (one that I hope never to lose), with each series uploading once a week on certain days.

It's been a long year, but it hasn't all been in vain. I've gotten better in art, in how I deal with subscribers, and how I work with creating. I'm no longer actively pushing for new subscribers, although they're all welcome. Now, I'm actually focusing on content creation with a decent style, a decent start, and a better system.

[Kura]

My webcomic adventure is a series of one stupid decision after the other...

How did you start off with your comic?
Raven Wolf started off as a novel I was writing for kids, because the main characters were all animals it was suggested to me that it would translate to younger readers better as a comic than a novel. To which I decided, meh, I HATE drawing comics because I hate putting all that ****ing work into something and being told "look at the pretty pictures!!!" like did you ****ing read it? Comment on the story?? If I wanted 'oooo it looks pretty' I would have just drawn a picture instead of putting effort into a whole ****ing comic.

But you know, despite my loathing for that I decided that I guess I could try anyway, I will just not draw my best so that people will be forced to focus on other aspects of it. Then I took it a horrible step further, and thought, 'you know what, I ****ing hate colouring with every possible fiber in my body and every being of my existence. So I am going to make a full colour comic because then maybe I will learn to LOVE colouring. Ha.... ha ha ha... ha ha (I ****ing hate colouring more than ever before and I freaken hated it A LOT back before starting)

No Future I started because the schedule for inkblazers was too demanding for someone with arthritis working on a full colour comic. So I started this series, which was much quicker to draw so that I could hopefully use that to support me and I could start to casually work on Raven Wolf at a lest self destructive pace. At first I made it on an alternate account, because the art was poor because I was trying to get used to drawing quickly enough to make a page a day comic, as well as several of my readers are absolutely horrible people and if they found out I was working on another series instead of Raven Wolf I was concerned that they would possibly send me death threats (which some of them friggen did when I connected my comic to my account later)

Than Inkblazers shut down. I kept at the series so that I could continue to work on comics and feel like I was still accomplishing something in my life even if it was small, because my health was getting worse and there's no way I can work on Raven Wolf constantly anymore, but when I wasn't working on something I was thrown into the "I am a worthless sick, cripple living in constant pain that has no purpose to their life and absolutely no way of contributing anything to society. I am burden to everyone around me that can't contribute to anything in life, why do I bother continuing to live? I just cause people work and trouble, I mean they like me but they also like their pets... pets are a lot of work and can't really contribute anything but making their owners happy... I'm pretty much a pet... Is continuing to live a form of self abuse? Would it just be kinder if I jumped in front of a truck and ended it? My family could get a new pet to look after, and I wouldn't be in pain anymore." With those thoughts continuing to get darker and darker until I thought 'ok time to work on comics and trick myself into thinking I'm doing something that's productive and contributes to society in some way'

How did you come up with it's story?
Raven Wolf was an idea I couldn't get out of my head that I didn't really like but wanted the **** out my head, so I wrote it down hoping that once it was out of my head I could focus on other things. After writing it down I continued working on it and ended up really liking the concepts and ideas I had ended up with. So I worked on them more and then made a story that I really enjoyed out of them.

No Future was an incomplete script I found for a story I had scrapped, that I wrote when I was much younger, it started out fun enough, but then the mood suddenly dropped as it became reflection of my life and was filled with depression, self loathing and a record of the many horrible things that had happened to me throughout my life. Despite how dark it was I really like the concept, and decided to work with it, I combined aspects and characters from other scrapped ideas and stories of mine, and I distributed everything that was happening to the main character among several characters in the series so that it wasn't all this shit being dumped on one person type situation, also because I was older and lived through these experiences I could see 'the way out / the bright side / a way to help' none of which I could at the time of the original story's writing. I was able to turn it into a story I actually enjoy and have a lot of fun with (which I originally intended for it to be but lost once I starting going down that spiral of depression that just made me focus on negativity)

Why did you come to tapastic to share it?
After inkblazers shut down I came to this one so that I could use the support program... HA, Jokes on me right??? **** me I'm not even kidding that's seriously it =_=... my comics are not formatted for this site so other than that I have no benefits to being here over any other websites. and don't give me the ****ing patreon lecture, I know about it and use it BUT patreon has not been letting me take my money out of it for months now, it kind of makes it not so helpful when it's doing that. Not to mention it absolutely does not work for what I need it to do in my comicking situation

Why do you want to share your comic with others?
Posting Raven Wolf online was more an incentive to push me into stop constantly doing re-dos / quitting projects and actually gain some kind of control of schedule on my comic work. I didn't go too much out of my way to advertise it because getting readers was not my original focus, MAKING it without backtracking was. I actually did not expect to get as many readers and fans as I ended up with.

No Future was yeah, some kind of attempt to make the inkblazers demand and work environment easier on me, now it's more a personal project that I marketed less than I did Raven Wolf and again, did not expect to get as many readers and fans as I did.

Also, despite my dislike for drawing and colouring, I enjoy storytelling... I REALLY enjoy storytelling. I enjoy it so much I endure doing things I absolutely hate to do it. Yeah... that's how much I enjoy telling stories.

[shaylafarley5]

My comic Psychosis started out as a dream, which drew inspiration from darker than black, akira, and Danny Phantom. (Which is why my character has white hair). I drew the 1st version of my comic back in 09 before writing the story out. And in 2010 I scraped the comic and decided to write it out. I rewrote it six more times before I was satisfied then started drawing. I'm still writing it now as I'm drawing it, but I have 30 chapters In between so in case I want to add or take away a chapter I can.

[MylCreates]

My comics are renovations of stories I made while in middleschool and highschool. It was the most depressing and lonely transaction years of my life, yet all that inclusiveness and inner turmoil probably resulted in some of my best stories. Most of the stories I made then were coping mechanisms, but I also loved to draw more than anything so that helped XD

DeathPrince was inspired by my extreme eczema and wish to be accepted without judgement of my seemingly rotting, bleeding skin

Hacheeachkee was inspired by loneliness and wish to travel the world and achieve success.

I originally started posting them on SmackJeeves after gaining enough independence, distance, and courage to share the stories as my pursuance in comic art was never very supported in the family I made sure to keep it secret as long as possible so that I may one day earn their tolerance.
I extended posting my comics to other sites aswell, like comicfury and Tapastic. Tapastic ended up having the most success and harbored a community which just seemed to click, and so I moved to Tapastic and made it my home

As far as how things are going on now... ~8-9 years later after having made these stories I've managed to keep my eczema under control , made many good friends, and now I'm traveling all across Europe, and my family is somewhat tolerant of my passion comics for the most part ^_^