What was your inspiration before you make your comic?

aspiderjonny 2015-05-16 02:33:41 UTC #35

Probaly my biggest inspiration would be all the great superhero cartoons of the 90's and late 2000's. Stuff like Batman, Superman, and Spectacular Spider-Man. I just love how they could still do great adult stories with a simple cartoony look (for as much nostalgia I have for 90's Spider-Man, I can't stand the over muscular and choppy look of it). They're just so much more colorful and expressive then the movies and some of the comics. An some of the fight scenes, escpecailly Spectacular Spider-Man, have influenced my own. A lot of mainstream comics are going more cartoony, so there's inspiration there too.

I'm also a huge fan of Disney and Nintendo so there must be bits and pieces from them in my comics, but it's probably very subtle. I will say that one of my main characters "Sleepy Bear" is based in look by old Mickey Mouse cartoons. Also my character's costume might be green because of Link and Luigi

And even though 10-year old me would;ve hated to admit it, Anime has also inspirared portions of my stuff (mostly hair machinery designs).

You can read my two comics Jonny Comic and Valve Comic to see where I'm coming from.

RiverKai 2015-05-16 05:25:56 UTC #36

Plenty of stories and authors inspired me before I made my comic, but who really threw me over the edge was Ishida Sui with Tokyo Ghoul. I cannot get enough of that damn manga and story, and it was one of those things like, "why am I not writing this too?"

Zannen00 2015-05-16 06:50:08 UTC #37

Just because Hideo left the company doesn't mean silent hill is dead...another dev will pick it up...and fail...tremendously.

goenn 2015-05-16 07:27:41 UTC #38

I wonder if Hideo can remake Silent Hills under another name. plsplspls

facemeltingsolos 2015-05-17 08:18:59 UTC #39

You ever watch The Tick?

aspiderjonny 2015-05-17 08:44:53 UTC #40

A couple of episodes here and there. I remember it being really funny but it was hard to find when I was little.

facemeltingsolos 2015-05-17 16:39:59 UTC #41

Then you're in for a treat. It's just as funny and subversive to the genre as when it came out... like, 20 years ago. Wow, when did I get so old? XD

DaneCelestia 2015-05-18 07:39:00 UTC #42

Yeah, that thought of someone picking it up and doing a forced quickie on t's dev is pretty much worse than them cancelling it, but I do hope Kojima continues on the path..

Axendre 2015-05-18 20:01:12 UTC #43

Hi,

Video games really inspired me for my project http://tapastic.com/series/EDEN---La-seconde-aube

Ico & Shadow of the colossus

Journey

NieR

Child of Light

...and also Kingdom hearts, Fragile dreams, Prince of Persia, Drakengard...
every immersive story with a great and mystical atmosphere

Menbung 2015-05-18 20:05:18 UTC #44

Ico is a masterpiece, truly a work of art, I haven't played (yet) SOTC u...u, and I'm waiting, maybe someday we will see The Last Guardian T.T

jessicasurline 2015-05-18 20:24:23 UTC #45

Inspiration huh? Probably the best kindling for my fire was general life pressures. I just graduated college and finally got a freelance job after several months of job hunting. I didn't enjoy that job much even though it was pretty close to what I wanted to do out of college. Well that job crumbled when my boss stopped paying everyone on the team due to his own shady problems. Anyway, I instantly found a new part time job that I didn't like, but you know...bills.

On my days off I was stuck home alone while my boyfriend was at work. I felt a creeping sadness growing in me like moss on a rock. I wanted a way to escape the frame work capitalistic society has ensnared my boyfriend and me, limiting our resources to grow and establish a reliable future. I craved to be in nature, despite never really having any outdoor experience more than a couple camping trips as a young child. I was also listening to many new Youtube and rap artists at the time so I just sat there and marinated in their music.

I decided to write down these emotions of helplessness and anger in the rough form of a narrative. It was quite the experience! I just let the trapped feelings out without anyone to judge, crying, laughing, sick with rage, and many other intense emotions. With time and effort, it eventually turned into Visceral.

There were so many more songs but you get the idea...

pjamasvonpatten 2015-05-19 01:09:40 UTC #46

Hmm, my biggest influence in style is based on a Japanese art form called Haiga: Haiga are typically painted by haiku poets (haijin), and often accompanied by a haiku poem.[1] Like the poetic form it accompanied, haiga was based on simple, yet often profound, observations of the everyday world.

Content infulence would defintely be people like Craig Thompson, Emi Lennox, and old school Japanese manga artists like Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Shigeru Mizuki, and graffiti. My comic is at http://tapastic.com/series/Tower25

Axendre 2015-05-19 05:23:54 UTC #47

Hope soon for Last Gardian... And you must play Sotc !

goenn 2015-05-20 10:42:47 UTC #48

When will the Last Guardian come out....

thecokers 2015-05-21 07:12:04 UTC #49

Hello everyone, my name's Shobo, I'm one half of Coker CoOp (the writing half!)

My brother and I created Outcasts of Jupiter, and we're getting ready to start publishing a spin-off called Under a Jovian Sun, next month. Our inspiration for the former was stuff like:

Conan
Asterix and Obelix
Firefly
Tintin P
Parker
Blacksad
Hellboy

And a whole bunch more, but those are probably the primary inspirations.

keac 2015-05-21 08:21:43 UTC #50

Oh, you're good

Axendre 2015-05-21 20:15:16 UTC #51

I've bought PS3 for it... not sure I'll do it for a PS4

mrky 2015-05-21 20:18:33 UTC #52

I live in Croatia, that's small country nearby Italy. So I'm mostly influenced by anything from italian Bonelli comics.

FromFinn 2015-05-21 20:38:15 UTC #53

ALONE TIME COMPASS

PocketFloral 2015-05-21 22:23:27 UTC #54

My comic hasn't launched yet (working on that buffer yo) but I'm always super inspired by music I hear that reminds me of my story, Arcade Fire (!!!!) Mother Mother, Jonsi, Iron and Wine and Of Monsters and Men are a couple artists whose sound just really resonates with it. Especially Arcade Fire's No Cars Go.
That said I'm also super inspired by Monster Pulse, Prague Race and Paranatural right now, all great webcomics that I'm sure a lot of people have heard of. I always get so pumped reading Prague Race specifically just because Leppu has major design skills that add so much to the fantasy aspect of the story.