Why did you start making comics?

[NicolasStegmayer]

Hey guys! i wanna know what was your reason to start making comics. I'm not talking about the current comic you are making in particular, just in general. What made you love this?
I will start with me. Mine it's kinda simple. Just to start, i was really into comics, and i think every comicbook fan wants to make their own comic someday. And i always wanted to draw for something like marvel or DC, but there were (and still are) two problems: My artstyle is just not good enough and i wanted to create my own stories. So, while i still want that in the future, i figured, starting making my own comic was a good way to practice and make my own story at the same time. And that's how i started writing a lot of diferent characters and stories! I just started but i have a lot of ideas i wanna make!

So! what's your story?

[Down_the_Rabbithole]

I have a few reasons, actually.

One reason is that I just have this story I want out of me and I'm a visual storyteller.

Another reason is to prove to myself that I can do it, that no fear of mine can stop me. Going as far as I did, gives me a sense of pride. Hell, making it past 2 pages makes me feel pretty good as I'm working on the 27th one now.

[MidZM]

Mmm, I got into comics because I couldn't focus enough to get into animation. I always wanted to do Anime styled animation, but 2D animation is the biggest time consuming pain in the arse that my attention span can't keep up with it, even the small animations that I work on every so often take weeks/months (They're not even that long!) to finish because I just can't FOCUS! Although my major in college is 3D animation (Which is SO much better for my attention span), so maybe you'll see me working on Disney movies and/or video games .

When I started reading Manga, especially the Naruto series back when I ACTUALLY ENJOYED IT (AHHHH)! I loved Kishimoto's art style and I started drawing like him, then my style morphed into what is now a mix of Anime shading and Manga styling/paneling.

[ToonDoctor]

I started making comics because I have a story to tell.

[Caelestie]

I started doing comic cus I want all the butch lesbians in comic being like cool and being knight and shit! everybody keeps thinking it is a yaoi even if it isn't! t sometimes I do draw yaoi hands by accident! whooooooooooops oh well!

[LordZevon]

This is going to sound egotistical, but I started because I got tired of reading bad stories. Comic after comic, they all had great ideas, but didn't do them well. I got annoyed and aggravated, so i decided that I would just do it better. Turns out its a lot harder then it looks. I also love telling the story no matter what it is, not to mention comics are just fun to draw. You might as well spend your time doing something then doing nothing.

[NicolasStegmayer]

Oh well, congratulations on that! and i get you, it was really difficult for me to start mine, but when i got to the second page BOOM! i felt like there was no turning back, i had to finished it!

@Mid25
Oh, yeah, animation is painfull! im not an animator myself but i have friends that worked on that and they say that you have to be really patient with it! I hope i can see some of your work!

@ToonDoctor
Oh, i get you, but was there a moment when you said "i want to make it into a comic" instead of writing it for example?

@Caelestie
Haha, now im curious about your comic, i have to check it out!

@LordZevon
Oh no I understand. I mean, it wasn't my main reason but i always wanted to make something diferent than just the usual cliche comics, so I understand in a way. Is there any comicbook story that you actually enjoy? haha

[MidZM]

The only actual animation I finished was of the main protagonist from my comic. You can see it here:

There is an error in the subtitles that I missed when I was working on it, but I do like how it came out. (This was made a year ago before the comic officially came out, so the style then and my current style is different on many tiny details).

[thomassayle]

to tell my message to my friend through visual form, of him neglecting our friendship. well thats one reason for one comic....the others are created because jokes!, must share jokes with PEOPLE!!!

[KoreanTacos]

I do it because
(cheesy warning)
I like to think about all my friends growing up when I was younger, my comics is brought me to them and every time I tried to stop I always came back and picked up my pencil. I feel like if I didn't create my stories I would forget about the people who helped make me the person I am today. My characters in my strips are based on real people and I'm not trying to self promote here, but my Thanksgiving Special was my love letter to all my friends growing up. I want to make people smile with the characters I created just like the people I based them off of helped make me smile.
(cheesy warning end)

So yeah, that's my reason for taking my comics more seriously. I never really shared my comic strips outside my friends growing up, and now I want to share them will you guys out there.

[punkarsenic]

i was first inspired as a pre- and early teen by manga, which was more accessible than western comics and less, like, white-boy-centric. i loved art and writing, and was amazed by the concept of being able to do both at once. also, the thing i always struggled with in writing was a lack of deadlines, so i very quickly grew fond of the idea of serialised work.
later on i found ways into reading print comics, restoring my passion for comics, and then webcomics! yay!

[joannekwan]

I had stories to tell and I was decent at drawing so this was the path I chose.

[vongcw]

I guess a bit of both that I had an artistic flair (started with drawing dinosaurs) and also a love for stories. That was before 13. At 13 the fire nation attacked and everything changed: I saw a Spawn comic for the first time. And an entire world opened up to me. The real seal of the deal was Neil Gaiman's Sandman series. Graphic novels were allowed to tell of worlds and people in a way books and movies couldn't, both in terms of subject matter and style.

[Quinineer]

Because I wanted to draw a self-indulgent, fun, story and experiment without any hard and fast rules.
And I'm really glad I did.

[Wishjacked]

Well, I first got into writing at about the age of 11 because all my friends were writing stories and posting them on FB, so I felt left out. Then I got into drawing at about 12 because all my friends were illustrating their stories and posting the illustrations on FB and I felt left out. Fast forward to me at 15, I was still writing and illustrating stories but I only liked writing TV episodes and thought novels were the bane of the earth, but I still needed SOMETHING to post on FB. I'd never seen a comic book in real life. My librarian handed me a copy of Raina Telgemeier's Babysitter Club GNs and I knew the second I read the first page that it was what I wanted to make. So here I am and mostly the reason I draw comics is because I felt left out by my FB friends

(THE REALLY FUNNY THING ABOUT THIS IS I'VE NEVER MENTIONED I DRAW COMICS ON MY FACEBOOK)

[Shanny8]

I started making comics because I've always wanted to make comics. I started out wanting to be an animation artist, but when I hit 10, I learned it took 1000s of drawings to make one cartoon, and most animation artists during that time didnt get paid much. So I was like "screw that, I wanna draw comics". Though I learned that most comic book artists dont get paid much as well, and I didnt care for playing the whole politics game of beating my head against a wall with submissions to most of your mainstream comic companies, I still wanted to do comics. I started working at an art supply store(3rd tour) and ran into this dude(who later became one of my good comic buds) who was making his own comic books; the more I thought about it, the more it seemed right- I was at a point in my life where all I wanted to do my own material...so it happened.

[MoonSquid]

I feel like it was quite unavoidable for me! When I was a smol (about 4-5 I believe), my dream was "To draw children's books and be a part time ballerina and give 70% of my income to poor people on the street." I grew out of the ballerina thing quite quickly, but I hung onto the "drawing children's books" up until I stumbled across my first manga, Sailor Moon. Something about it hit more closely to home with me, the way tha art tended to be a bit edgier, dark, beautiful, and far more narrative. I started eating up mangas and shonen jumps like a mad man, and created my first OC, Setsuna. I started creating my own mangas (made 13 issues I think?), blending original characters in with dragon ball characters, but in a very sailor moon -type story. Once I grew out of THAT (and was mindful enough to hide my awkward "mangas" deep into my closet) I started developing ACTUAL original characters, original worlds, and original stories constantly. The first concepts for my story and characters from Tempest Red were devised during this time, in 2002-2003 (but have since been rehashed dozens of times to not be.. quite so... well, made by a 12 year old lol). Then high school happened and life tried to take over; I tried writing books, I tried sewing, I tried improvisational acting, I tried dancing... and then I stumbled across my first few pages of Tempest Red from 2004. It was like I was slammed back into my younger self's body, and this insatiable hunger hit me. I jumped right back into drawing, years and years of trying to polish the rusty turd I had become until I just said "screw it, I need to just start. I can improve on the way." Aaaand that's that!

Now I'm not saying that this is my path destined for greatness, fame, and fortune. I still have a lot of shortcomings as story teller and artist. But win or lose, fail or succeed, I've never been as happy as I have been when I finally gave my graphic novel side the attention it deserved.

[respheal]

I posted a drawing on the NaNoWriMo forums and someone responded asking if I was doing a webcomic x: That planted the idea a la Inception and here we are.

[indagold]

I wanted to tell a story. Animation is too time consuming for me, singular pictures of course don't work, videogames I suck at making and my grammar skills are awful so releasing a novel online is out of the picture. Comics are the easiest medium for story telling for me. Also at 11-12 I read all those shitty early 2000s comics, all the infamous shit ones that the kiddies thought were amazing but in reality they weren't which got me to be inspired to do comics unfortunately.

As for my current comics I was inspired by dreams and surreal work. I wanted to try something new and something weird that I tended to not do in the past. It was an experiment for me and was fun to do but for now i'm going back to normal story telling.

[mg78]

i love to tell stories and i like to draw...