Your oldest comic?

[katverwho]

I think this will only apply to people who've been making comics for a while, but....anyone else out there have a REALLY ancient comic from back when they started? I wanna see people rough beginnings!

My first comic from when I was 14 -15 actually still exists in some weird Keenspace (YES KEENSPACE, REMEMBER?) archive here:
JIRALE

[Chopythes]

Oh god, unfortunately I didn't get in to comics until I was in my 20's.
And this is what it looked like 8 years ago:

(it's still somewhat readable on themoron.smackjeeves.com unfortunately)
Notice how beautifully crafted it is in MS Paint.
It wasn't my first comic, but the first one I ever did complete. Originally in Swedish but I've lost the last pages somewhere when I switched computers.
and I had photoshop 8D

[isaacfriedman]

I wish I had a picture of this, but in 2nd grade I wrote a comic called The Adventure of D-Boy about a kid who could transform into any dinosaur. The plot was stolen directly form Ben10 and the sense of humor was my attempt at a Captain Underpants style thing, even though I sucked at comedy back then (I still do but that's beside the point). Since I was 7, the art was, of course, terrible, and for some reason I drew every page on a 32nd of a sheet of blue construction paper with a blunt number 2 pencil, so it was virtually illegible.

[Iaikaa]

I have been drawing comics since I learned how to write (had been drawing even before that) so finding my first ever comic could be a tricky thing to do but here have a couple of the really old ones when I was actually taking comics seriously already.

The pages are in Finnish 'cause I've only been writing my comics in English for 6-8 years and these are both way older than that...

I hardly ever compliment the use of Comic Sans but the font I was using in the first example is a nightmare to read x__x

[R.n.P]

I made mine when I was 5 but I cant find it at home but I can remember it was a comic about an alien hunting group of five with each member sporting different colored T-shirts and have massive guns bigger than their bodies.

[WakaXO]

I made my first comic in grade 5ish? It was 10 pages, drawn by hand, and I coloured it with pencil crayons... It was horrible, lol. But my first serious comic was when I was in grade 8ish, it was a Naruto knock-off, drawn by hand, about 200 pages and also just horrible! lol ^^

[jono_thompson]

I started making comics from grade 4, when I was ten years old. Here is my first comic, based on the book 'fantastic mr fox'

[Kayke]

Ooof, my oldest was a Harry Potter fan comic on Livejournal haha
There used to be a TON of Harry Potter comics there. It was a weird time.


It was so so so so bad but somehow had like 30 followers who would make icons for it and stuff which was weird.

[AnnaLandin]

I'm not sure if this counts as a "comic", but it's certainly a story illustrated with sequential images - and it's a story I made in elementary school. I think it was in first or second grade?

I was seven or eight years old, and we were given an assignment by the teacher to help us practise our writing skills - we got a blank notebook where half of each page was a blank white space, and half of every page was lined, and told to make up a story.

I made up a story about two troll boys who lived in a cave together - one who was very tall and had a toadstool on his giant nose, and one who was tiny and looked like an ambulatory shrub - and who went on various adventures. The one I remember most clearly was when they found a baby dragon and took care of it, before letting it go free because you shouldn't turn wild animals into pets just for fun.

Most kids filled maybe one notebook in an entire year. I filled seven notebooks with my animal-protection-themed bromance, and the teacher actually had to tell me to please stop writing, Anna, this is math class.

I drew a new version of the main characters quite recently, actually. If I'd drawn the story last year, they would have looked like this!:

[sorrelma]

i started doing comics when i was 11 and worked on this ''''masterpiece'''' up until... really recently

it's on tapastic too but that version was heavily revamped(when i was 14.......... so honestly it's not much better)

i try not to beat myself up over it too much tho bcuz working on that comic definitely helped me improve

[eleoza]

Oh... yeah xD I started drawing comics when I was 12 or so. I still have my 1st comics, they're precious to me ^^

[miesmud]

HA that's funny, today I found a folder full of drawings from when I was 6 to10. (and other folders with old Christopher Heart "manga" drawings I made. So awful omg!)
So I also found this gem! It's all in my language with some common spelling errors haha.

It's about a girl named Lotte that dreamed that there was a cat in the tree, and suddenly the cat disappears, Lotte falls in love and then there's a bird making cat sounds? It's super weird even I don't understand it

I think I was 7 when I made this, and I'm glad I can say I've improved since back then.

[indagold]

couldn't find the first comic which was terrible mary sue zelda mess. Found my second oldest comic:


Some anime thing I made when I was 13/14. The plot needed massive amount of rewriting and I posted comics on a whim.
I still use it as inspiration now and again even if 10 years has almost passed.

[katverwho]

I gotta give kudos to any 7 year old who decides drawing complex extinct lizards is the place to jump into making comics. Damn.

[Mharz]

This is the oldest thing I could dig up. I think I drew this around 2008 or 2009.

It's unfortunate but my past self didn't have the guts to push through it. Though I'm definitely planning to remake this in the future.

[Thesleepypencil]

I've been writing stories since i was 8.
But my first comics is actually a predicessor to a comic I'm working on now.

I sadly have no art left of it (i burned them) but the plot was this
A young princess was turned into a frog as a child. And only when by herself or with someone who knows who she is/knows she is a person can she be human. So the queen who discovered this and was thought to have gone mad takes her into the woods to live as a human in solidarity.

Till of course she runs into a couple adventurers and decides she wants to actually live instead of hiding. And end up going in a quest and actually meeting other people turned animals.

The universe was suppose to be very fairytale, so beauty and the Beast, the swan princess, other tales showed up. It was full of all the fairytale bits, the prince pretending to be not a prince, a a evil witch/stepmother, the works. It was interesting to say the least. I think i made it when i was 14.
I scrapped the story but kept the universe. Which is currently in use.

[shaneoid77]

I started a webcomic back in 2005 which is archived in my Deviantart folders. It was slapstick Superhero stuff which was ok to begin with, but I ran out of ways to keep it novel which is why I've went in to something more grounded this time round. I was a bit spoilt with Go-Bee as it became quite popular, people still ask about him today. Anyway the portal to the comic is here

[katverwho]

I just want to say I love you all so much for sharing all of these! Especially some of the kids comics, those of you who still have photos or scans of those....aaaah, they're really awesome!! Apparently I'm a big softie, I did not anticipate this when starting this thread, ha.

[isaacfriedman]

lol thanks. I've actually always preferred drawing things that aren't humanoid simply because it's harder for viewers to spot any mistakes XD It's why I always say my specialties are monsters and machines.

[apurviance]

I have some grade school gag comics somewhere that are better than THIS, but here's what I was making about 4 years ago. This is what happens when you don't practice for over a decade. Hey, I had other hobbies.

Image from an old series here on Tapastic about weird historical demises.