Who inspired you? Share your comics too

hi there , how are you doing?

i was inspired by mainstream anime, manga , video games and movies

to name some:

onepunchman
deathnote
naruto
onepiece
berserk
batman
superman
xmen
avengers

and many more...

sure ill check out your comic

if you have the time heres mine

So my inspiration came from my love of Dragonball, Adventure Time, Steven Universe, the Mystery Skills Ghost music video, and my malaise at working at a past job doing the same thing every day lol. It's weird I know but I'll explain.

I got into a phase of tracking down storyboards and animatics for the shows listed above and got like super obsessed with animation. Not only that but the animation of the Ghost music video really got me fired up to start drawing again and make something of my own. That coupled with watching animatics and storyboards, watching how the shows I loved come into existence with Rich characters and amazing writing fueled me with a facination that I still can't really explain. I think it's possible that it had something to do with breaking out of my humdrum life of driving for an hour to work everyday only to copy and paste news articles. Fun right?

Anyway, one day on my way to work, I got an idea for an animated music video. I thought it be easy. Something about a girl in a ponytail in weird clothes wisking a guy set in his boring life off to some fantasy land of monsters and robots. I thought I'd give it a shot so I did. I started writing the story planning it to be short.

3 years, many rewrites, many redesigns, and many scrapped and redrawn pictures later. I somehow ended up with a full comic with a huge storyline lol!

So much has changed but now here I am with Powernote!

Ohhhhh, I love this question. Let's see, what inspired me to first write my story was actually a Wattpad book called Flicker and an anime/manga called Ancient Magus Bride haha.

What actually inspired me to post my story here was because of stories I really liked on here. Like Bang Bang BOOM NY, Prince of Silk and Thorn, and Countdown to Countdown.

After I started writing, I found myself taking inspiration everywhere I went. Could just be small things that happen in life, but I've definitely noticed I pay more attention to things and think "Oh I can use that for my writing."

Thank you very much

My original inspiration for Megami Shiizun: the beginning was my high school friends and Sailor Moon. The original version never made it beyond my sketchbook.
In time as I got older, a lot of other things inspired the re-write of the comic, which is the version that I have online and in print. There's still the original inspiration, but there's also my obsession with horror/thrillers as well as classic Disney movies. I think I ended up with something with a bit of everything, which is probably the reason why a lot of my readers who I've met said the same thing to me. "I don't read these kind of comics, but I LOVE this one!"

Inspiration? i guess i always had the idea on mind,,,like something you really want to do in life so idk if i have been inspired by another story to make mine...i really enjoy some comics out there anyways.

Webcomic is my hobby. I make comics from my childhood time.

Kurt Busiek, Mark Gruenwald, Grant Morrison, Otto Binder for the obvious superhero comic influences. Other influences include the Outer Limits, Lord Dunsany, and William Hodgson. I think "dark superhero fantasy" might be the best way to describe what I'm trying to make with The Power of Stardust.

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I can't draw to save my life, to be honest.

So I mostly write. But of course, like 99.9% of people in this world (the +/- being the absolute error on the calculation), I write so badly I should maybe consider giving up for the wellbeing of humanity.

However, one big inspiration, the light at the end of the tunnel for me, the father and mother of the little, rachitic creativity that I have, would be Fyodor Dostoevsky. He enters that 0.1% that is not a measurement error. What is fascinating with him is the absolute abandonment with which he writes. He gave up a comfortable life, he gave up a military engineering position that could have fed him and his offspring and laid it all at the altar of literature.

And literature had been such a cruel deity to him. But until his very last breath, he wrote. He wrote about humanity. He wrote about its ugliness. He wrote about its beauty. He wrote about your brain. He wrote about my brain.

You could follow his ups and downs through his books. You knew when he had found a sliver of hope to make him believe there still was a chance for humanity to rise above depravity. And then you would see him slowly sink back into despair.

Dostoevsky was to literature what prophets were to religions. And he gave us Nietzsche and Kafka (who copied him mercilessly - but worshipped him with just as much passion), so yeah.

Sorry for offtopic... I'm really curious, how exactly Dostoevsky have influenced Nietzsche and Kafka? From one-two works of each of them, which I've read, I didn't see bright parallels. But it is an impression of the usual reader: I'm not a literature critic and don't have any deep knowledge in this field, so I could easily miss something.

I grew up reading comics, especially DC comic, and always wanted to write something like Batman. It wasn't until a few years ago that I realized how big the world of comics was outside the big two (Marvel/DC) and started reading more indie titles, with really fresh stories like SAGA or Lazarus and many more I've since been reading. Sci-fi in particular is a genre that has always attracted me (who among us didn't grow up with Star Wars or Star Trek), and guess I finally decided to sit down and make our project of Frontier-0, and working on its comic has been probably the best creative experience ever!

Do you mean influence of style or influence of subject?
Every author really has his a style and when it comes to style we (not authors, I mean humans in general) all influence each other. It would be unfair to point a finger at an author for using the same figure of speech as another one.

But Nietzsche was vocal enough about Dostoevsky's influence on him. There was no shame associated. You know Nietzsche had a bit of a personality and did like himself quite a bit and yet he said that Dostoevsky was the only psychologist he had anything to learn from. I believe Nietzsche read Dostoevsky for the first time in 1887. I am not sure though. I don't remember what book it was that he read first either.

It is said the Nietzsche had a deep inner dialogue with Dostoevsky until the last moment of his life (or his sanity). But of course, their worldviews deeply diverged, and that is why it is so very difficult to connect them. Their relationship is a field of study in both philosophy and literature. Nietzsche's concept of übermensch (my people fought against the Nazi, so that word always makes me shiver a bit - though it is nothing but a misunderstood philosophical concept) is supposedly derived from Dostoevsky's Raskolnikov (Crime and Punishment), Kirillov (The Possessed) and Ivan Karamazov (Karamazov), for example.

Now, obviously, I am no philosopher or PhD in literature but there are so many interesting papers about their relationship. And it is fascinating to see how Russian critics maintained that Nietzsche and Dostoevsky were in irreconcilable opposition with each other. And yet …

As for Kafka, he owned almost all of Dostoevsky's works. Critics consider that Kakfka used parts of "The Double" by Dostoevsky to write "The Metamorphosis" (what a magnificent short story, don't you agree?!). It is quite accepted, since the 50s, that it is so.

Of course, this hurts our contemporary perception of originality and copyrights. But when one thinks about it, is it so very wrong to sit on the shoulders of giants? And aren't we wrong to believe ideas are our properties? It wasn't like that back then. They admired Dostoevsky, Dostoevsky influenced them. They might have diverged from him or continued on his tracks, but they did not just flush the past and tried to rebuild literature from scratch. They moved on and built upon what was readily available.

Something we have stopped to do, believing we are superior enough to write without reading the works of others. And thus, producing so much mediocrity. Yes, I am a literary pessimist.

I am sorry for this, for drowning you in my obsessions. People around me don't really care about the birth of psychological literature. Nietzsche is read by men who butcher the concept of stoicism, nowadays. Kafka is obscure and unknown. And Dostoevsky is only remembered as the evil Russian supremacist who got critiqued by Nabokov (all hail Nabokov ). Urgh.

I was heavily influenced by TMNT, Sonic, Homestuck, SOMA, Bioshock & Bendy and the Ink Machine!
And comics like Heroes of Thantopolis & Postcards in Braille were very inspirational for me too. They're what made me want to write my own slice of life comic, which I actually just posted today!

Nice!
I've been doing comics since I can remember.
Mostly I was inspired by 'Hannah is not a Boys Name' and 'Lackadaisy'. The one that actually made me try posting a comic was 'Girly' by Josh Lesnick. I saw the improvement throughout in his art and figured that it's okay to not be perfect at first.

And here's my comic I guess

I've been making comics for decades. As a child, I was inspired by cartoons and anime Dragon Ball, Sonic the Hedgehog, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and a few other cartoons.

I stopped making comics for a while and started writing. Once I completed one of my long stories and started viewing Dragon Ball Z, Bleach, and the Marvel and DC comics, I became inspired to start making comics again.

I saw videos on YouTube about the rise of web comics. Then I decided to start uploading my web comic online.

My main inspiration for starting my webcomic was my love for fantasy novels and video games. It's not really inspired by anything in specific but it does have a lot of fantasy elements involved. I wanted my story to have both fantasy and realistic elements to it. Mostly, the story came straight from the heart and doing this comic has been a huge labor of love for me since the beginning.

That's why he's my favourite writer, hehe. Of course he's not evil, but his views on the world are almost like mine, and that was a surprise, when I discovered him.

But ok, l'll be close to the topic now. For me main inspiration in comics was XIII. Before that I thought that comics are in only superhero stuff, which certainly not my cup of tea, at all. After reading XIII I understood that comics are far more diverse and I can join too.

Others works are hundreds of action movies, video games, TV shows that I used to watch/play. I always wanted to make my own, with my characters, stories and everything else. Now I'm making it I can't exactly say about one film/show that influenced me directly, btw. They're all influenced me at the same time

I would say that what inspired me was not so much only from comics/mangas, but cartoons/anime and video games. I originally wanted to be an animator, but once i went through school i realize i love drawing storyboards WAY more so i figure that comics and story boards go hand and hand, I figure why not draw my work for myself!

Both my comics: