When did you get into making comics?

[Sanz]

Maybe you never know i have a box full of unfinished comics lol

[Aetherwing]

Well my current (second) comic is a fantasy epic, so I clearly never learned my lesson haha! I just can't seem to write short things. I start out, and then elaborate way too much and things blow out of proportion.

[Shanny8]

Oh man...I got into comics the minute I was able to pick up a pencil and draw(very young). I would spend hours drawing my own little comic books patterned after super hero rip off characters- I could fold sheets of drawing paper & and draw & color them. Then I started drawing 8 page comics on larger sheets of notebook paper when I got in middle school & high school. I finally started drawing at professional comic book size when I started going to art school- it was kind of a pain , coz my art style was transitioning and I didnt get comfortable drawing on a large scale until I learned the trick of the trade from a comic book pro(which was doing thumbnails on a small scale, then blowing them up and lightboxing it on a larger size). I even moved away from using regular pencils to using non-photo blue pencil(which I could ink over and DIDNT have to erase the pencil coz it wouldnt show on a copier or scanner). That's been my technique- pretty much until I got an itch to try out digital rendering; now I'm going that route.

[nathankschulz]

I got into making comics about 4 or 5 years ago. I was at Comic Con, and I just realized how much I wanted to be a part of the producing side of all of it. I couldn't draw (yes, I know, I can learn, but it was never a passion). But I could write! So I wrote three test scripts (among a lot of other stuff). The first one was... yeah. It wasn't good. The second one was better, but pretty shaky. The third one got finished and drawn, but it was full of so many of my weirder ideas that it was hard to explain. But my latest comic has come out exactly the way I was hoping it would! Its been a fun journey, all and all.

[dratinigirl]

I got into making them seriously when I was 18. I had doodled a few here and there before, but they were just scribbles. I was very inspired by Ailene and Paperseverywhere on tumblr, and about 2 years ago I made a short comic based on DMMD. It was by far the most successful thing that I had ever made, so I basically spent that summer pumping out comics. Late that year I got the idea for what is my current comic, ElectroMania. Originally I was going to make it a novel, but I thought I should try combining my abilities to draw and write. So far I'm having fun with making my own series >o<)9

[Aspie_Gamer]

Been drawing comics my whole life. LoaA is my first digital comic. The most strips I ever drew for any one comic would be 200 something. The most chapters I've drawn for any one comic would be three and a half.

[TristanJensen]

I started making comics when I was 9 or 10. I actually remember the first one I made was about safety rules and showing the consequences of not following them (why I did that is beyond me) the first of those being about not handing someone scissors by the blade and the other guy getting his hand chopped off. I also remember throwing it away moments later (which is a bad habit I'm still trying to break).

But I didn't really get into making comics until three years ago I started working on a story called "Subconscious" which became "Insert_Epic_Title_Here" which again became "Subconscious" and is now called "Li" (the plot has been edited a whoooole lot)
(my current series "Life of a Homeschooler" happened between the first two renditions about a year ago)

[AnnaLandin]

I drew my first illustrated story when I was 7 - but then there was a big gap, during which I thought I'd grow up to write prose and novels and stuff, and I didn't draw a proper comic until I was 16. I was always drawing, but not drawing comics.

The story I made when I was 7 was a weirdo bromance between trolls. The comic I made when I was 16 was a terrible webcomic of which we shall not speak because it is incredibly poorly plotted and badly written - but I took what lessons I learned from that and moved on to other projects.

[Dranif]

Time I got into making webcomics- More than a year (it will be 2 years ago as of August this year)
Time I got into making any form of illustrated story: About 6 years ago, when I made a storybook which I donated to the middle school library that I used to go to. That storybook is an early adaptation of a comic series I have that's actually going to be rebooted again sometime this year, Legend of John the Parakeet.
Except I wouldn't be the one drawing it, my girlfriend will be (she told me she wanted to help me with it).
I'd be in charge of the scripting.

[mappypaint]

Making comics? let's see... I can remember making comics way back when I was 8. But I don't have them anymore, my mom probably threw it in the trash. Then Dragonball came when I was 12 so that inspired me to draw comics again. My style evolved through time until it reached the style I have now. The oldest hard copies of comics I made was the series I made back in 1998... they are now stuck to my wall as wallpaper.XD As for webcomics, I started U-Speed Jan 2010 and uploaded it on another webcomic hosting site May 2010. It found its way on tapastic on July 2015 and is here to stay. ^u^

[Mane]

When I was in school me and my best friend would make up a fictional universe in which our main characters were our avatars (we're talking ultra Mary Sues here ). We would make up stories like mini arcs and either just draw key scenes and talk about the adventure or draw entire chapters . I guess this is where it started. But I started doing comics seriously about 10 years ago, and it's been my passion ever since I laid eyes upon my first Dragon Ball volume.

[Damatris]

Even if I've loved comics for a loooong time, I actually got into making them only two years ago.

Well, there was a very sad attempt during my 1st year in high school (so... 7 years ago?) for a improvisation comic with a bunch of strangers over the internet but that meant drawing 1 page every... 2 months? And even then the whole thing died in less than a year. xD

Later in high school I had less sad but infinitely more horrid try at a comic of my own, epic fantasy with dimension hopping and elemental magic. But that too died before getting to draw more than a handful of pages. I was working more on the script and characters than on the actual pages but more I worked on it, the more I realized just how awful the story and setting were. I'm really happy tho that I worked on it because I was able to spew out lots of... bad writing to say it nicely. It definitely thought me a lot about story structure, plot and character development and how to avoid/spin tropes and cliches. After that I didn't touch comics for couple of years until I started working on my current one.

[R.n.P]

As far as I can remember so at least when i was 6 or younger.

[rairy]

I knew about webcomic in 2000 but that time most webcomic arent popular and mostly on personal webpage. i work on my webcomic in 2004. i host at keenspace/comicgenesis. they're still up but discontinue and i dont feel like to continue them.

[foxowl]

I've been wanting to draw comics since I was 15 but only just started making some fan-comics 2 years ago, I still have a long way to go but making my webcomic has been a great way to learn new things.

[Sanz]

I agree making comics opens up a whole new light on concept and design and certainly perspective !

[kambreapratt]

I have always loves stories and telling stories, but I didn't get into comics until I met my husband. He has been doing comics for years (He used to make mini-comics and sell them to kids in elementary school) I started to get interested in them about 15 years ago. Then about 10 years ago I started thinking about writing some.

[cylmill]

I started writing my comics when I was grade 2,I guess I was roughly 7 or 8 years old when I made my very first comic. I do not know where it is now though but its about 3 girls who was given 3 eggs in their dream and inside those eggs were little fairies hehe (I was inspired by Chocola and Vanilla hehe) Ahhh those days,when I didnt care whether the bodies were proportionate or if the bubble dialogues overlap each other * ' v' *

[DsCashewsOfficial]

I actually started in college. One day a friend left class to go to the bathroom. I grabbed his notebook and drew a giant wiener on it. Everyone thought it was hilarious (including the teacher who came over to see what we were all laughing at). From that day on me and a few other people started drawings pictures of sausages (Superbad style) during classes instead of focusing and actually getting edumacated.

The drawings really started to improve in quality and for a while people have been telling me I should start publishing things online. So after about 5 years I finally decided to get Manga Studio and start playing around and from there I built my site and haven't looked back since.

[blop]

I drew some illustrated stories or comics pages when I was a kid, but nothing very serious, I never finished anything, just a fiew pages and I'd get bored of it.
So the first real comics that I had to finish for real and be serious about was a year ago, a 18 pages one shot for a fanzine.
But I was already drawing professionally by then.