Hey, nothing wrong with working old school! Traditional art has a great texture and tactile quality to it that a lot of digital art lacks. If you can rock fineliners and Copics, that's awesome! It can be a tricky and temperamental medium to work in sometimes!
I'm primarily traditional as well!
Speedball ink with a bowl nibbed pen for linework, on hot press watercolor paper. Then I use Winsor Newton watercolors (sometimes Copics, for the "video game" panels) and Posca pens at the end for corrections.
Then I scan and do all the formatting/lettering/word balloons in Krita. I hate my penmanship, so I had to go somewhat digital.
My main comic is an anthology and right now I'm experimenting with pixel art- but usually my ingredients are: Graphite, India+Archival ink, watercolour with a waterpen. Then to GIMP with a 14(?) year old wacom tablet.
I looooove metallic paints and those never translate to digital!
Sometimes i also use pencil and paper to draw the rough sketch, then i'll take a pic of them on my ipad and upload them to the Medibang Paint app 
-I story plan in a Black n' Red note books, the paper quality is good, the cover is sturdy and the lines are not too dark.
-I draw with a small Wacom Intuos4 which is probably like 12 years old but it still works fine.
-I use a very old version of Photoshop, so I doubt you can easily get a copy of it. I have been trying out Clip Studio which is fine if you are just doing illustrations and comics. Tho it is really lacking is some key features I like from Photoshop
Wacom Intuos Small - I use this for drawing webcomics. It's the one that comes with a USB cable, not the one with the bluetooth. I place a somewhat thick plastic sheet on top of it so that my nibs won't wear out when I draw.
SketchUp - for backgrounds and for helping me sketch where I should position my characters.
Corel Painter Essentials 6 - for flat colors, textures, shadows, and digital painting.
MediBang Paint Pro - for sketching, line art, and speech bubbles.
Adobe Photoshop CS2 - for text, pacing the panels, and slicing the final webcomic.
For me I used a simple wacom tablet and photoshop. In the past I would use illustrator to do the line arts. But after learning the magic of photoshop pen tool I was able to skip the extra step and really streamline my work 
I use Clip Studio Paint and really recommend it! And I use a Wacom Mobilestudio, which was my upgrade from a Wacom Intuos that I had been using for five-ish years. An Intuos or a cintiq are probably good when you're starting out 
Or a huion if you're looking for something more affordable, though I've never tried one personally.
I used wacom intuos small and medibang paint pro.
-Wacom intuos small -
I bought wacom intuos small, an affordable tablet like a month ago because I don't know if I can be a real artist or not. I'm a beginner who just know what layer is, what's the differences between airbrush, g-pen and others . So if I don't have talent for this, I won't feel my money is being wasted too much on this.
-medibang paint pro-
To be honest, it is a bit hard to use medibang because it doesn't have slice tool and there aren't lots tutorial of medibang for making webtoon in YouTube but after a month of using it, I got used to it and it's not a big problem.
But still, it would be better to have Ps someday.
I have a Wacom Bamboo and a Wacom Intuos I switch between every now and then and I do the majority of my comic in Clip Studio paint and the coloring in PS. I'm hoping to upgrade tablets in the near future.
@alexitsios
Mine is XP-pen deco 03
I highly recommend it for the price and functionality.
It's almost three years since I bought one, and it still is what I used until today.
https://www.xp-pen.com/product/89.html1
My monitor is Philips 43" 4k monitor
And a windows 10 pc
On the software side, i used Medibang for my line-art, Krita for coloring and Photoshop for slicing and other technical stuff.
Clip Studio had a 50% off sale a couple of days ago...its original price for its Pro(basic) version is $50, but the sale slashed it down to $25. You can get tablets as low as $60 or 70 bucks...the larger the tablet & the more features it has, the more it costs.
I use Clip Studio to do my initial drawing & inking...I then transfer to Photoshop, where I do most of my coloring; I toggle between PS and CSP to get the colors & the effects that I need/want, and then transfer a copy to Illustrator where I do my lettering. I then merge the finished copy & lettering in Photoshop, format it and, and it's ready to upload.
CSP does lettering, but not as well as Illustrator. CSP has issues with fonts that have auto ligatures, as well as some kerning & spacing. Photoshop does lettering, but PS is raster based- which means the more you manipulate the finished art, the more it tends to pixelate. The only other program that comes close to Illustrator in terms of quality vector based lettering is Affinity Designer(original price $50; was on sale for 50% off until 6/20).
Lately I've been doing a lot of standalone pieces mainly using CSP- trying to get myself to color more with the program. I'll probably still use PS to color my comic- mostly because I have the brushes/tools that get the effects to do what I need; but with each new build of CSP, they are catching up to a lot of what Photoshop does better than them...when that day arrives, then I'll gladly drop PS entirely.
Years ago I bought a bamboo pen and tablet pad for my laptop, I really wanted to get into digital art, yet I'm an impatient person who would give up because my work didn't look the way I wanted it to when just 20 minutes had gone by.
I practiced on a tablet with no stylus, some time later, yet give up again for the same reason.
Now however, my work isn't great yet I'm not as hard on myself and have found that I'm seeing improvement just by doing little often, I have drew a little something every day for the past month using the free app ibis. I use a tablet (no stylus) or my mobile, as I improve I may try a different program, though I'm quite happy with ibis, and I'll get back on the laptop.
I just go with what's working in the present.
My Wacom Cintiq and Clip Studio Paint on Surface Book 2. My main tools for making webcomic and my number one tool. How does it sound because enhanced tools would be nice?
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