What was the first comic you ever drew?

[Tenma]

When I was 8, I did some comic strips about the family cats. I then followed that up with a quite terrible short series about a humanoid parrot (Looney Tunes-ish). That's what you get when you spend your formative years in the 80's (The Land Before Cartoon Network.)

As horrible as those comics were, I still think the part where the parrot went to the circus and projectile-vomited seasoned french fries all over the next few rows in the audience was pretty damn hilarious.

(I just really hated seasoned french fries back then.)

Unfortunately I didn't do any more comic work until I was 23 and discovered webcomics. I can only imagine how much better I would be today f I had kept going with those.

[K-Dawg]

Right here in grade 3:

[Warbaby1]

I tried to draw a Judge Dredd strip when I was about 17. From what I remember it was just the scene from Dirty Harry when he does the "Did he fire six shots or only five?" speech. At the time I probably believed there was a chance it would be published, deluded teenage fool that I was.

[Cope]

My first comic was a book entitled "ZIOT STRIKES AGAIN!" in which a fox with a magic helmet thing and his friends save the world from an alien.

[Fadri]

Let see...

When I was 4 or 5, I created my first character, who was intended to be reused over and over.
He was called "Mosquitin" and looked like a human-mosquito hybrid...
Something like this:



Then, I drew my first comic using that character.
The story was:
Our insectoid friend was about to take a shower, when he realised the shower head was broken.
So he brought an elephant as a replacement, like in a bad gag from the Flintstones.
End. O__o



That was the first and the last time I used that character.

[Mo]

Funny coincidence.

While I don't know when I actually made my first comic, I did stumble upon one of the first stories I ever wrote AND illustrated! ZOMG!


(Click to read the whole darn thing)

If you don't speak German fluently and still can tell what's happening, I grant you a wish!

And, unfortunately I don't know at what age I did that. I do believe it isn't VERY recent.

[Cope]

I think it had something to do with balloons and happiness...

[Tacolicious]

Hmm, probably my earliest creation would be Bobo the Minotaur around the age of 12 or so. It followed the adventures of an archeology major who cut his hand on some broken pottery at a dig and thus was transformed into a minotaur. After he recovered from his transformation he was kidnapped by an anthropromorphic Chimera and his three-headed chihuahua Cerberus. Before the Chimera could do some vaguely defined evil thing involving DNA, the last living descendant of Hercules showed up and blundered around, confusing the Chimera for long enough for Bobo to escape. Then Bobo beat the Chimera to death. Finally he and Dan Hercules returned home to become superheroes.

I have about five issues of this crap in an attic somewhere. The other stories were far less lucid than the origin story. The Chimera bartered his way out of Hades and upon his return to Earth he made Bizarro Bobo. Bobo killed them both. Then a witch cast a spell which switched Bobo and Bizarro Bobo's places. Bizarro Bobo went on a rampage, while Dan Hercules tried to resurrect his best friend. I think the last story before I lost interest involved Dan going to Area 51 to enlist the help of the aliens.

[Biev]

Oh shit, I lied, I did try this before. I was cleaning earlier and I found my first attempt at a comic It was gonna be emo beyond all reason. I wanted to tell the world how much I hated liking girls. Luckily I realized just in time that a) my personal life wasn't all that interesting and b) the people in the comic would probably get very pissed at me. Especially since most of them had no clue I ever thought of them "that way".

Oh, and I kinda didn't want my parents seeing this

[Kaloo]

Title was Flare, I was 8-ish, and it was about a Scientist(stickfigure) who built a robot, who fought the evil Proffesor *!(the Star Exclamation was how it was pronounced)

[[AlmightyPyro]]

I jsut remembered that I used to draw comics all the time in 1st grade of a duck the disco'd and fought crime! I wish I still had those.
In third grade I drew a guy named Snake, and made comics about him, and early on I messed up rihting 'snake' and put 'sake', so that became his name. he was origionally a base off of DBZ and Reboot, but it eventually just became my DBZ character.
Then When I really started drawing again in the 6th grade I made a huge storyline around him. He had kids and everything.. I was very imaginetive!

Man, I need to redraw him and make him how I saw back then. That'd be cool! Redraw you OLD characters with your new drawing abilities! [/nastalgia]

[Berg]

I can't remember any period of my childhood when I didn't make comics (not counting my teenage years, during which I didn't do much of anything)... I doubt this was the first comic I made, but the earliest one I remember (very vaguely) was a comic about two guys who lived in a fort or something, and occasionally had to defend it against attacks from "the enemy" (whoever they were).

The other real early comic I remember doing, was about a character called Rusd (the name, BTW, doesn't make any more sense in Norwegian than it does in English). I guess he was supposed to be a mouse (although I think he was human sized) who wore a cape and flew. Beyond that, I don't remember anything of the original incarnation, but for some reason I brought back the character in some of the comics I made when I was a little older (say, 10 - 12).

Okay... I just now found a version of Rusd that I made when I was 6, and there were a couple of things I'd totally forgotten. Appearantly, Rusd drank liquid cheese from jars, which made him strong. Also, he fought pirates a lot. And he wore a red hat which looked like a brick more than anything. Sadly, I think all of these aspects were lost in the later incarnation of the character.

In my pre-teen years, I'd sometimes make comics together with friends (some of whom had an interest in drawing, others could barely hold a pencil but did it anyway). We'd use each others' characters (mostly human-form animals and such) in our comics and create our own little comic universe (although I suspect this universe existed more strongly in my head than the others).

The last person I remember collaborating like that with, was my best friend at the time. He and I actually co-created a character that we then made a buttload of comics about during the following couple of years (many of which also included characters from my earlier comics). This character was a "human" type dog named Rax. And that's about it for characterisation. I'm surprised we could squeeze out as many stories about him as we did.

Um... yeah.

[BKR]

If you don't speak German fluently and still can tell what's happening, I grant you a wish!

I'm very confident that I'm not fluent in German - I can read a bit, but conversation is way too difficult now that I'm rusty (even when I wasn't I couldn't do that much). I think I could understand most of it, though I don't know some of the words (and not because of misspellings).

To be honest, it reminds me of the reading exercises you do when you're learning das Präteritum.

[The Neko]

Back in 3rd grade, I hated math. It's not that I was bad at it, I just thought it was really boring. So I made a series of comics called "Math Book Comics". Usually it was a cartoonish series of cause-and-effect events that eventually led to the destruction of the book.

The teacher liked it and showed the whole thing in front of the class, and everyone in the class started to copy it. Being the stupid kid that I was, I wanted to see if I could get the teacher to copyright it; teachers being unable to make a legal copyright.

[TheSuburbanLetdown]

I drew a comic called "Bobo the Stupid" in third grade. It was heralded as the first great comic of the post-modern era.

[Godai]

Well... I suppose I must've been about two, otherwise I'd not remember. My father was having and evening with riends and I was just sitting in the same room, scribbling in some notebook, watching an animated movie on TV (a serial called Maya The Bee) and ended up scribbling a storyboard based on the movie. It was at least 10-12 pages long, though I used one panel per page (I still like having whole-page panels, lol).

This might be assumed my earliest comic. Through the next years I often made what could be assumed scripts, not really comics. And At about 10 I started to draw again, but untill about 16-17 I could not put it together.

But yes, I assume this one storyboard over a quarter of century ago to be my first comic.

:)

[Berg]

But yes, I assume this one storyboard over a quarter of century ago to be my first comic.

You just made me very depressed.

[Axonite]

Somewhere around first or second grade I started drawing my own Peanuts comics, followed by an 'original' comic about a cat. No idea where any of them are now (apart from "maybe the attic, or some landfill in NJ"), which is probably just as well.

[[geoduck]]

My current comic is my first sustained effort, but in childhood I drew tons of really bad one-panel gag cartoons. The earliest one I still have features a monster breaking out of an egg cartoon, and attacking a stick figure. I don't want to know what that says about my subconcious.

[EvilChihuahua]

I have been drawing since I was old enough to hold a pencil, so my first attempts at comickry were absolutely terrible. I did several quick strips, mostly ripoffs of garfeild,( the gags were mine, but the characters were almost the same)

Then, when I was around ten, I made a superhero called Hawkboy. Yes, the name was a blatant ripoff of hawkman, but the characters were'nt, since I had never actually read the comic. AAAAaannyway, I wrote an entire silly, horrible first issue (which I still have) on some yellow printer paper I had lying around, then stapled it together. Then I got bored and moved on.

A few years later, I started reading webcomics, and in an attempt to copy what I had seen, I began doing a strip called "Crap From EC" (I had already coined the handle of "EvilChihuahua") in my notebook. I wrote around a hundred strips, And Most AIAFLW strips are simply rewrites of those.

Before AIAFLW went online, I made several pages of a comic called "Holy War" (about an angel named bob.) but I decided to do a year or two of a humor comic to get some experience first.

It's a good thing too, most of the art really stunk, and you can get away with worse art in a humor strip.