Why Did You Choose Comics?

[VibrantFox]

a love for visual storytelling for the most part

i started out being a big bookworm as a kid but then around middle or high school got really into manga and comics (or at least ones that werent the sunday funnies). theres also the fact that my dad was an artist so i spent years from childhood and on aspiring to be like him till id found and formed goals of my own that weren't so intertwined with being as good as people i looked up to

i think the comics that really dragged me in were the archie sonic comics (which a good chunk of folks may or may not know) but between the official solicitations and then fan comics and other original stuff people were posting to their own sites or DeviantArt i wanted more n more to make my own stuff and having been one of those kids with a big imagination and lots of stories floating around in my head it just kind of clicked to go forward with doing comics

ive considred animation as well but between the learning curve and just not finding a groove with it like i have comics ive stuck to panels and pages

[angie_draws_things]

I wanted to drink less and draw more. Drawing a comic and updating it weekly is a good way to accomplish both.

[xkdeSskf]

This is an interesting question. I'm more of a visual person than a words person. Writing novels is thus not my best storytelling method. SO here I am, where I am today. Comics allow me to improve my drawing skills and I have a passion for drawing with a chance to story tell. A little like killing two birds with one stone

[BlueDragon]

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Um...well I always liked drawing and writing, and I always drew and wrote stories to go with them.

But when I got to college and started writing courses, most of the class was like luke warm on my writing, and one person even said I wrote one story like it was a comic book.

Soooo I dropped trying to be a writer and just started doing comics for myself until the person who later became my partner encouraged me to start sharing my comic online.

Womp Womp

So there we have it. The love of my life is why I stuck with my comic :3 And we weren't even dating then XD

[sable40k]

Original thought process: "Comics artists can do whatever they want, and they can even work solo! I can learn all these cool disciplines, like storyboarding and design, and make something with them!"

Lessons learned: "Oh, there's a reason people work on teams. And working solo means I have to do all those tasks myself."

Still enjoy it, though! I feel that I would be pretty bored if I couldn't tie my drawings together with a story, and I'm not really the book illustrator type.

[CarltonIsaac]

I read my first comic book at age five back in the 1980s and thought, ‘hey, I can make these too.’
And thus began my journey... and Dayum, it’s been a long ride.

[allenT]

Comics/mangas are always been around me since young age (big bro was a shounen manga reader). Also It's easy to approach as a kid.

But to start the journey of drawing comic, I first saw a pencil-drawn flipbook comic from a classmate when in primary school. And that started my comic-making life, I drew a lot of unfinished action "comic series". After high school I stop drawing them for quite a long while. And in this recent 8 years I slowly returned back to comic.

Fact: I drew more comics pages than art pieces, just over 1K pages already. (counting everything including childhood drawn pages)

So it's just my default go-to medium if I want to tell my stories. (and still a traditional-page comic creator!) The difference is changing from quantity to quality & being more selective now.

[Nada]

Why the comics? They are ... (and here I get nostalgic)... my inspiration and my escape from the real world, I love writing stories since I was very little and drawing them has been my delight, but if until now I started publishing them it was because I didn't have enough confidence in myself.

I have a lot to improve, but even though I'm at a certain age where I have to deal with my responsibilities as an adult and I don't have all the time I need, I want to use it to publish more stories.

[TroyVSTheWorld]

I've always wanted to draw a comic strip since I grew up on syndicated newspaper comics and 2000's internet webcomics. As a side effect of learning to draw comics I've had a storyline on the backburner for like 10 years so it might be healthy to get that whole thing out in a longer format.

Then, past that,I have no illustrative goals--I'll probably move on to my next bucket list endeavor, which is probably recording an album. I don't really have a creative goal, I just need to create more and more on varied mediums.

[N1ghtm4r3]

always loved to draw ,its a happy medium between animation and writting, i gte to d a bit of boht doing comics

[irresponsiblepics]

For me I always wanted to make animated films even a small child and after so many failures I decided to just give a comic a go. I had many friends tell me I should of done comics in the past but it never really interested me beyond Peanuts,Garfield and a few Manga. I always gravitated towards animation.
I have the whole thing played out in my head like animation. But I do not have the time, money or resouces to make it so. It needs to leave my head..so comic it is!

[scottlincoln689]

As a child I always had "Peanuts" collection by my side, where ever I went. I read every newspaper comic strip I could find and my grandmothers were constantly giving me vintage Sunday comics they came across. Growing up, I came to see that I had grown up in the last golden years of the newspaper comic. The daily and Sunday strips just kind of became the language I spoke.

[Demy]

I think it's a really versatile medium and a lot of my favorite media tends to be in a comic format. And like a lot of people here I used to daydream stories a lot lol.

It's a lot of work but I can't say I don't enjoy it!

[sourswords]

Part of it is that I simply love comics. Part of it is that I couldn't imagine Pale Rider as being anything else. It just was meant to be. I have a (normal, pictureless) novel in progress and a goopy, unsteady setting that I imagine as an animated series, but Pale Rider just had to be a comic. I certainly want to make more comics in the future, but they have to be right for the medium.

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