Comic Inspiration?

Uncaringmachine · Post by **Uncaringmachine** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 12:28 pm

Ever since I can remember I was drawing. Instead of doing my work at school, I was doodling on my folders. I do think I started because my brother drew, but he gave it up and I kept going with it. I always read DC comics, didn't care for Marvel or most indies, except for Spiderman. I started doing a webcomic when I saw this girl self publishing her comic called Heads Up Penny, and to be honest, I was thinking "Man, if she can do a comic with nothing but stick figures, what's to stop me?"

http://gothymcgee.comicgenesis.com

Christwriter · Post by **Christwriter** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 12:34 pm

The first webcomic I ever read, ever, was <a href="http://clanofthecats.com/">Clan of the Cats</a>. I pretty much fell in love with it. From there I found College Roomies from Hell, Fans! and Zebra Girl. I started getting comic-book type stories and started buying art books to learn how to draw these stories in my head.

CW

Alschroeder · Post by **Alschroeder** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 12:53 pm

Silver AGe Fantastic Four, plus a lot of mythology. Not to mention FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON.---Al

Soup Goblin · Post by **Soup Goblin** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 6:23 pm

The first comics I ever remember reading was yellowed book of collected Peanuts strips that I found at a library sale when I was about five.

I first discovered webcomics through a link a friend gave me for Megatokyo. After devouring that archive I went searching for more. And I read... well, a lot of crap mostly. But eventually I learned how to distinguish the good from the bad and found things like CRFH, Bruno, and others. Although I'm sure I have dozens of other influences, these are the two that are leaping out at me right now.

Somewhere in there I also read Sandman.

Ti-Phil · Post by **Ti-Phil** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 7:25 pm

I blame the Scrameustache and Leonard for making me addict to comics... oh well!
But webcomics... I really can't remember.

Sortelli · Post by **Sortelli** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 9:49 pm

blackaby wrote:In this context I'm using the word geekily in the scary obsessive way, in which you collect all the Asterix comics in both French and English and write stories in which you and Asterix get married and live happily ever after in Gaul.

Although I may be the only person to which this form of geekily applies, on second thoughts.

Uh, I never imagined marrying Asterix, myself, but I did have warm feelings for the pretty girls that were featured in a few books.

Blackaby · Post by **Blackaby** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 11:42 pm

Sortelli wrote:
blackaby wrote:In this context I'm using the word geekily in the scary obsessive way, in which you collect all the Asterix comics in both French and English and write stories in which you and Asterix get married and live happily ever after in Gaul.

Although I may be the only person to which this form of geekily applies, on second thoughts.
Uh, I never imagined marrying Asterix, myself, but I did have warm feelings for the pretty girls that were featured in a few books.

They WERE hot, weren't they? And the random guys who the pretty girls ended up with, too. I kind of had a crush on Obelix as well, but that whole menhir obsession worried me a little. Also, I'm not a fan of animals that can fit comfortably in my mouth, so I'd probably have trouble with a dog like Dogmatix.

Garasade · Post by **Garasade** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 1:20 am

romance of three kingdoms by woo young koh

sorry that i didn't really clarify, but if anyone cared or was wondering, this is the work of a recently deceased korean artist adapting a famous epic by luo guanzhong. it's about ancient china about around 300 ad.