Why do you make comics/manga?

@hades Hades
Thu, 09 Jan 2014 16:56:53 +0000

@hades wrote:

Back in highschool I wanted to be an animator and only saw myself as much. I was an avid fan of manga back then but still had a fondness for superhero comics after finding out about them in middle school. [I was never directly introduced to comics beyond newspaper strips] All these comics and mangas were first what inspired me to even make stories [outside the usual Harry Potter got me writing too] and drove me start drawing. I never really considering making a comic though. It was always animator, animator, animator.

But then my first year of college I wanted to join a newsletter for an avatar based forum I was part of. They wanted a comic and with my teenage pompous attitude I proudly said I could do that. [Keep in mind my art back then was horribly out of proportion and pretty bad honestly. I've learned a lot over the past couple of years and had a complete attitude change xD; ]

My attempt was so horrible that I completely gave up after the first few pages. But it gave me the comic bug. I started trying again and again. Failing each time. Till I really sat down and tried to learn. Now I have Tyree going and even though I am still making a few mistakes, I am greatly enjoying it and am happy with what I have managed to release so far. So much so that I've become more focused on being a comic artist over an animator. Who would have guessed.

Sorry for rambling and making such a huge post! oops!