For my main comic "Sketchy Business" I'm inspired by comic strips I grew up reading like Calvin and Hobbes, but I think I'm also inspired by comics and children's cartoons like "Hamster and Gretel" which start out with more or less individual/stand-alone strips or episodes but progress into connected story arcs over time. I've read a lot of comic strips over time tho, also I'm probably inspired by Pearls Before Swine, Garfield, Peanuts and Big Nate in ways I can't easily trace lol
J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Thomas Malory, Kenneth Grahame, Jane Austen, John Keats.
Kentaro Miura, Tite Kubo, George RR Martin,,Souls games,Witch Hat Atelier , Tolkien. There’s many more but these are the main ones
I really love the Discworld series and Prachett's ability to weave humor seamlessly into pretty serious overarching fantasy stories.
Abby Howard also has a beautiful, flexible style for making horror comics that blows me away every time I read something from them.
The persona series (well, I just played personas 1, 3, ,4 and 5), I just found amusing how a bunch of teenagers got so much development while the plot keeps advancing, and I just said, "Thats very cool, i wanna do the same." Pretty much a story with a slow pace.
Tim Burton, Scott Cawthon, various anime makers.
For Haru and Tsukasa:
Herge, Rene Goscinny, Albert Uderzo, Andre Franquin, Bill Watterson, Charles Schulz, Jim Davis, Naoko Takeuchi, CLAMP, Kiyohiko Azuma, etc.
So basically, all of my favorite comic writers and illustrators.
I forgot to mention it in the realm of novels lol, but I'm inspired by Tolkien, Dickens, Oscar Wilde, and George Orwell as well
Rick Riordan, James Frey(aka Pittacus Lore), Suzanne Collins, Neal Shusterman and Michael Grant are big inspirations for me. All the films from Laika Studios were always in my top 20 movies.
