Why did you start making comics?

[sistalsartworkshop]

I started my comic as a school project, but that I decided to continue, and now I am making 3 differents comics XD. Even plan on doing a animation of one of my comic XD.

[abbastudios]

I've wanted to make comics since I was 5 years old.

[Michelle]

I have stories to tell, and comics are the best way to tell them!

Originally I wanted to do animation, but the amount of time and people needed to realize a big project meant getting those stories out in animation form would take ages. Maybe I'll return to animation someday, but for now, comics are a MUCH more immediate method of visual storytelling.

[SpavVy]

Because I have stories to tell and I suck at everything else.

[artsy_oleander]

Like what a lot of other peps said, I have a story to tell, and I have a specific way I want to tell it. What really got me going to finish a comic was a contest I didn't enter since I missed the deadline. I still was determined to finish it and publish it, so I did and posted it on Tapastic.

[ToonDoctor]

I'm an animator/cartoonist by trade so I don't think in terms of novels. If I have an idea for something, it is always as a comic (or a cartoon). These are the ways I best express myself. I'm just a cartoonist through and through.

[fighterxaos]

Gosh, come to think of it I guess it was just always in me. I was even doing a Power Rangers inspired comic when I was 7.

Well... to think deeper on it, I guess it's something to do with my subconscious brain and how it's wired. I remember even back then having dreams where it'd be like I'm in other worlds. As a child I'd try to make sense of my dreams and come up with stories about them and sort of, continue the dream. Even now my dreams are a big inspiration for what I do.

[NicolasStegmayer]

Oh yeah, well, when i was kinda the same age i made KND comics haha! but i guess i grew out of it... at that age i didn't even consider it as a hobbie or jobe, just did it!
Oh nice, some people get inspired a lot by their dreams... my dreams are always too weird so i can't use that material haha

[fighterxaos]

True back then I definitely didn't think it would be a career.

Cool to see others inspired my dreams. Some of my dreams are.... WACKY, but a lot of my dreams and the ones that inspire me to write are like stories already. They already have a beginning, middle, and end and everything. XD

[musicalseason]

Ive always wanted to make a comic and post it somewhere but I felt my art skill and writing wasnt good enough anf I never had confidence. Ive always drawn comics or written stories from a young age and never did anything with them so they got lost in the void. Tbh when I watched the Welcome to Webcomics video on youtube it kind of gave me a (very silly and exaggerated) introduction to the webcomic world, and I decided to start doing something serious. That video is actually how I found out about this website ^^

[Isky]

I was bored one day and thought it'd be nice to start a comic. Don't know if I'll ever finish it since it's low on my list of priorities, but it's neat as a side project. I don't have some deep motivation behind doing one, but here I go.

I love reading! I've loved reading since I was in elementary school, whether it'd be a novel, comic or anything really. Reading would even distract me from doing college papers! However, it bothers me when a story I'm enjoying takes a route I find lame. Childish, I know, but this is me giving the finger to all those stories that lost my interest. I want a story that'll keep me interested all the way through! Is this the perfect medium for me to convey that story? Well, my art style is horrendous. I puke when I look at it sometimes, but I don't care. I don't think my crazy ideas would translate very well into a novel.

[lunaartemisasama]

I always wanted to try making a comic, also to practice drawing and relax. I hope to finish it-

[Mocha]

I got into making comics mainly because there were tons of comic and manga artists that I admired as a kid. Then as I got older I sort of lost my passion for writing novels and realized that the ideas I had in my head translated much better into sequential drawings than written sentences. And bam stuff happened I guess...

[hushicho]

Everyone has such honorable and noble reasons! I do love art, and indeed it's the best way I can express myself. It makes me feel good to bring joy to an audience, and I live and breathe art. At this point, I can't imagine being able to do anything else.

Though to be very honest, the reason why I started doing comics -- which I only started doing independently with Incubus Tales, before that it was mostly little experiments, playing, collaborations, or not actually comic work but something else -- was because I kept seeing depressing sexy comics.

There would be these pretty people with exciting lives, having exciting relations with each other...and being terribly depressing about the whole affair. There was always this pall cast over the proceedings, and I really didn't like that. I set out to make lighter stories overall that would bring a smile to readers and give them a little excitement. Maybe some action and adventure, some nice humor...

But generally less of the bizarre depressive tone that was super prevalent for a while. I don't know what was up with that!

I think part of what made me especially sensitive to it was the fact that growing up and trying to digest gay stories and gay expression led to inevitably a lot of depressing stories that seemed to include depressing elements not because they were organic to the story, but because they were expected. Fortunately there's much more diversity now in the stories being told, but for a while...whew. You'd get stories that, in the way of gay culture, dealt frankly with sex and relationships...and then threw in some tragedy from out of nowhere because for decades, you couldn't get a story seen with gay characters unless something terrible happened to them. Either because they felt it necessary to cultivate sympathy from an audience who didn't share their orientation, or because it was supposed to come off as some sort of "punishment", which is a whole other can of worms.

Anyway, I like drawing guys, I like a challenge, I enjoy adventure and fantasy, and there were pretty much no sexy incubi in stories. Succubi everywhere, but no incubi. So I thought, what the heck, why not change that?

And now here I am, at least ass-deep in being an artist. And some days I sit here and wonder about myself!

What have I got myself into...!

[Herofeeder]

i heard girls dig guys who draw potatoe shaped heads ,now im drowning in....

[Zetsubonii]

For me, I've always wanted to make something, a comic, a book, a game, the whole 9, however, I never really got the motivation nor courage to do anything with the ideas I had other than simple sketches and concepts. The current project I'm working on, Jim's Days, was started after a break up with an ex where I wanted to convey emotions as monsters being fought of by a guy named Jim. Over the years, the idea was shelved as I lacked the motivation nor muse to start, however, after an even worse break up with another ex, I decided to continue it to both distract myself as well as prove to myself that I can make something. After 2 years and a lot of evolving, the story of Jim and Cheshire looking for someone named Alice became a fruition on Tapastic

[AlkseeyaKC]

I tend to day dream stories all the time, I want to share them with people. Comics seemed like the best way to do it. I wish I had more time I could devote to comics. I would probably have 3 or 4 going at once. ^_^;

[kirahaydenyin]

every now and then i get inspired by something but rarely actually do anything about it. But then sometimes i just keep thinking and thinking about it until i can actually see something cool in my mind that's hard to let go. Ultimately it became something i wanna make real.

[brown4life26]

Why did i start comics...? At first it was just to make me feel better but then i realized that people liked what i wrote ((even if it takes some time)). I wanted to keep making people feel, well, anything really.

Now i do the one on here to help broaden perspective but im so behind and theres only two pages up. I do side ones to make friends feel better.

[craicin]

FOR A LAUGH

and because i want to improve, its an excellent way to trick yourself into improving.