this is so me! I was haunted for years until I finally sat down to write!
I want to give my readers a good time. Reading always protected me from the crap going around me, so I wish it would help someone else. This is not to say I write happy stuff. There is darkness in my stories but through all the toil, I always let good prevail.
There’s something I always quote.“Write the book you want to read,” and I always do that, there’s thousands of stories about the hero winning and have friends to help him/she beat the big bad evil person so I want to write and show that villains have friends to and things don’t always work out the way you think it will. But that’s just for my new book.
I draw my comic because it's a story I want to read and I also want to try and share my thoughts in it as well since I have trouble expressing them verbally.
Im making this because its my dream to be a comic artist and because of my love of manga and comics. Ive been working on this for about 9 years since i was in 10th grade but only in the last few years has my art been good enough for me to actually make pages. Still have a long way to go art wise but still want to put my work out there and make a story that atleast some people like.
My little series started out when I was feeling depressed and I wanted to do something productive. After watching animation videos on YouTube and reading webcomics I decided to make an fb page. At first I just uploaded drawings but then I came up with my first webcomic which... wasn't all that good...
Eventually I made up a plot (which I am still currently refining) and filled the series with more characters.
Generally I just make comics about my life and what I find funny. But my message would be to share my experience with others.
If... that's counted as a message :T
I am very religious and it was on my mind and laid on my heart for about 2 years and I have been trying to develop the story and world for about 2 years. With all the signs about armor put in front of me, I decided to go ahead and pull a Hayao Miyazaki by making up the story and retweak it as I go along. I think a lot has to do with the theme of knowledge is power and being strong when it is hard to be strong. I want to encourage myself and others to strengthen their faith in the midst of pain and fear. https://tapas.io/series/A-Call-to-Bear-Arms6
It took me a while to realize this but I created my stories to cope with some of the trauma in my life, specifically, about not having a dad there for me. I found my self trying to build a relationship with him in my stories.
Not much has changed since I was a kid. I use my art to cope with my current struggles, to understand my emotions, and to share my joys as well.
My story is a culmination of experiences and I want to sort of convey that it's okay to think outside of the ordinary.
I deal in cosmic motifs and these beings are vast and endless, but we can be, too especially as it pertains to our imaginations and I think that's cool.
Even more, each part of my story encompasses some theme separate from each other: First part is about Friendship/Family and the importance of trust
Second part is about love and challenging what is considered normal.
Third part is about freedom and that fighting for justice and freedom for everyone should be a priority, not just for oneself.
A lot of how I see the world and the universe has made its way into this project...I hope people can take something from it.
I usually make stories to make people feel. I want to say some important sh*t in them too, but mostly to see people get happy over a character, sad if something happens to them, angry-- everything, mostly because I do that when I read stories, and wont forget how do you truly feel things, emotions. I enjoy it and I have seen other people enjoy it too :3
Also I need to bleed all the ideas and stuff from my own head before it explodes XD
I mostly do the stories for me and I publish then to see if I can get some profit out of it, is nice to see if someone likes what you do, but honestly I make things for me. I dunno I like to make things and tell tales.
i actually dreamt of my comic idea
its been two years and its still in my head everyday so if not for my readers... then for me i would really like to develop the world and the characters because i do love them a lot. There's no 'definite' message like 'be kind to others, friendship saves all, love conquers all ie though
Well for me, it's really a way to indirectly deal with feelings and thoughts I don't like to confront but I have to as part of treatment (my comic revolves around mental illness, focusing more on depression). I also wrote this as a way to maybe hopefully help others by showing them that they are not alone in their struggles and that recovery is possible. I also wrote this to help give some insight to people who don't understand mental illness that well of what it is like to be in a such a place and why its so difficult to get help. I also wrote this story to honor a friend of mine who has another very stigmatized physical illness (HIV/AIDs). So its really a comic to show overcoming of struggles, destigmatizing and fostering understanding for certain illnesses, showing that people are not fully defined by their illness and that there is someone out there who cares for you and is willing to support you.