Purely out of curiosity, I was wandering how much time (and love) people put into their comics. I realise also that there will probably be an incredibly wide variety of answers as there are many factors which could affect the answer, e.g
if you're at work or school or college(XD),
whether your comic is in colour or not,
if it's handrawn or photos or computer drawn,
and of course update schedule.

I draw for a couple of hours everyday (whenever I'm not doing homework, gaming or on DrunkDuck) because I try to put up about 20 pages a week.

Hard to say, I do spend a LOT of time doing it but it is very interrupted. Somedays I manage 2-3 hours of work sometimes less. Occasionally 5 or 6 hours in a day. However it is often 10-20 minutes at a time.

One of the reasons I have recently embraced 3D/poser art is that I find it easier to do amongst interruptions.

I don't have a set number of pages I aim to produce each week, but my update schedule is twice a week for my current projects.

For Last Of The Wilds:
I tend to spend about half an hour drawing it, half an hour inking it, and a half hour to an hour colouring it. The time I spend is short because the pages are drawn on A5 paper, and the final product only has flat colour.

For Quest For Zanvadas:
I can spend anything from 1 hour to 2 hours drawing it, an hour or so inking, and 1-2 hours colouring it. This one takes longer because the pages are A4, the content tends to be more complicated than LOTW (spaceships, buildings, etc), and the final product is fully coloured and shaded.

I usually try to produce at least 2 pages of LOTW and 1 page of QFZ a week, in order to keep up a decent buffer of pages.

im workin on em "all day every day"that is until i get distracted, which can happen alot. there's also different things i do that occupy my timme. like a few titles i write and draw, one i even split the responsabilites with someone else, and two other titles i just draw. so i dont necissarily sit there and DRAW comics all day, but i do put most of my time into em.

"Super Temps" is a tricky beast to measure. Some days the writing comes easily, but then the layouts are difficult. My characters are often verbose -- especially characters like Skull Girl who tend to ramble a lot.

Thus my layouts are a pain. I don't have walls of text because I'm trying to hide an inability to draw, I have walls of text because I'm verbose.

At worst -- when I don't have a clear idea of how to handle the next page, no pre-planned dialogue and no layouts -- it can take two hours just to handle dialogue and initially layout alone. When I have a good idea of how to handle things, I'll actually draw it first and add text later and allow the amount of action to dictate where to insert the joke and layouts aren't given any time at all.

The actual sketches will depend on the difficulty of the poses. Combat sequences will often include a look-up of the techniques in question and how to portray action. Dialogue-heavy sequences will be all about emoting. And it depends how much Skull Girl is in it -- a Skull Girl heavy comic will be done in a snap since I've the most practice with her. This can take 2-3 hours, but some pages take as little as an hour to do.

Initial inking usually takes about an hour, same with shading. Can take two hours to ink if I'm bored or if it's complicated. Colours about 30 min since I use flats. Backgrounds an extra hour because I hate them and so skimp on them, then work on trying to make the crap look better before publishing.

Finally comes the text and balloons, which is only an issue when I don't have a good idea and takes maybe 45 min (Otherwise it's 15-20)

Oh, and there's maybe an extra 45 if I decide to whip up a new character commentary. It means a quick face sketch and thinking up an appropriate comment.

So total time can be anywhere from 4 hrs to just over 8 hrs -- it all depends on how miserable I make my life by trying a difficult pose, lots of new characters or if I'm very distracted. On average I'm going to guess 6. And that's why I only update once a week.

I do the bulk of my scripting in advance, but continually tweak up until the day it's posted. However, with my current issue, I've done scripting on a scene-by-scene basis with an approximate page count that I try to hit since this is a generic Giant-sized issue (meaning I'm giving myself a 44- to 48-page range instead of the strict 21-page limit of standard issues).

Pencils and inks can take anywhere from 2 to 4 hours. My pencils are very rough--basically just naked sketched bodies with the faces drawn. Clothing, backgrounds, hair and such are added when I ink.

Base colors usually only take 20-45 minutes, depending on how many elements I'm compositing on a page. (I generally do background and foreground elements as separate images from the main page; this way it's easier for me to blur certain elements depending on their distance to the "camera.")

Then I spend 2-5 hours doing the shadows, highlights, lighting effects, etc. I know that's a big range, but some pages take a lot more work than others.

Averaging all that together, I'd say a "standard" page takes about 8 hours to do (not including scripting).

Back in high school, I would eat up my comic all the way through. So much time to waste, pulling out all my notebook papers, printer paper, and spend hours doing it without interruption.

These days, still the same. I do what I can and take breaks in between with a pal of mine across the way; we'd toss out some ideas, see what fits, she'd lend me support and I'd pick it up again. I'd probably say I spend about 60%-70% of the day on these things. Flash MX is an evil temptress; sometimes I'll do off-shoots in-between the comic, and often start-over when things don't look good. Gotta do what I can to keep motivated.

Good music helps.

It takes 8 to 10 hours per page, but I couldn't tell you exactly since I work in choppy intervals and steps. For a typical page, I'll work on it for three days. -- That is not including writing script (which I do far ahead of time and tweak as I go, and sometimes rewrite entirely half a dozen times) or research/practice. Some settings or scenes require extra practice, since I'm very novice in my art ability, so I have to practice all kinds of things before drawing "for real."

My pages are hand drawn but then they are heavily digitally edited and digitally colored. I update Used Books twice a week. (I used to update every day, but have since severely complicated the process, switched to color, and started putting a lot more time into details.)

Gelotology takes roughly two or three hours, which I do all in one sitting the night before the update (once a week). It starts with a rough sketch that is then scanned and used as a basis for plain digital art. The actual art doesn't take much time or effort, but coming up with a gag does. ^_^; With luck, an idea will come to me during the week, but sometimes, I start searching through popular science articles or wikipedia in hopes of coming up with something.

I also have to feel motivated and inspired to work. Some days, I want to do comic-related stuff but not draw the actual comic, so I'll tweak scripts, draw sketches, or do writing/art exercises to build motivation.

3-5 hrs from scratch to full color. 3 hrs if all I do is focus on it. 5 hours if I'm in a relaxed mood and doing other things at the same time.

too long

Digitally I was taking 3-4 hours a strip. Pencil and Pen, 1-2 hours per strip. If it's colored, add in 1 to 2 more hours depending on how fancy I decide to get.

I seemed to take MUCH longer doing them when I was doing them all digitally because I would obsess over getting every line just the way I wanted. It was getting to the point where I was losing precious sleep, and finally I just decided to give pencil and pen a try in an effort to get them done quicker. It's worked so far, and I'm getting much more sleep! Quality has taken a bit of a dive, I hate to say. But it's nice to not obsess over it anymore because once the ink is on the paper, oh well, it's on there and I don't have any whiteout to save me haha. But I think I'm slowly getting better at it :)

Typically about nine-ish hours, I suppose. I have a tendency to be kind of ADD when I'm working on the computer, so every couple of minutes I click out of Photoshop, refresh my e-mail for no real reason, then go back to working on the comic.

The lines usually take the longest, somewhere around six hours I'd bet. Thumb-nailing, Coloring and lettering take much less time.

Pencils can very depending on how detailed I decide to be on a any given page,but typically one page will take approximately 3 hrs.I don't usually ink,so if I do decide to color I just contrast adjust straight from my pencils and fill in any line gaps and start coloring.I'm still learning how to use digital colors and layering techniques ,but so far one splash page took me approx 6 hrs to do.I'm about to attempt my first full digital colored panel page,so when done I'll let you know. xD

It takes about 8-10 hours per page, which normally isn't all that much for a drawing. However, I've had some busy classes, been improving my social life (sitting around at home all the time with no one to really talk to is boring for me), and I've been working on more artsy stuff since my portfolio needs some attention (my webcomic is not something I'd consider showing off to try to get a grant or to a potential employer).

We'll have to see how much attention it gets over the holidays since it's really difficult to work on a drawing when some members of your family don't consider art to be work (and thus want you to go outside or go downtown or something during the time you set aside to draw).

Uhh... probably more than my update schedule suggests?
I'm terrible at timing myself while drawing but I find myself working drawing maybe 4-8 hours at a time.

As a pair we do about 7-8 hours per page? (inking, selections, toning, etc). About 10 hours if it's a complex page.

Me and oneblackpaper, have full time jobs (like everyone else), but the advantage in our situation is we release about 1 chapter every 2 months due to contractual agreements, so it's no more/ no less time spent working on the comic every month.

I can be a speed demon. When I was in elementary school, I'd try to draw sketches of people playing basketball during recess. Ha- If they weren't running, my models were moving too slow (actually, I'd have several sketches going and wait until I saw someone in a similar pose- at which point I'd add to that sketch as quickly as possible and then wait for the next opportunity).

The project I'm in the midst of releasing right now took about 2.5 hours per page from scripting to inking. The project I'm working on now timed at about 1.5 hours during test runs. Osamu Tezuka and Yoshihiro Tatsumi are big inspirations for trying to combine speed with quality material. I usually work black and white, though I really should start getting practice with color.

Results from the last 2 months so far:

Pencils (more like rough breakdowns though): Up to 10 pages a day. But generally less, up to 6 I guess.
Inks (digital, it's where I add all the details): 2-3. Sometimes four.
Colors: depending on how complicated and how enthusiastic I am towards the results, but can range from 1 to 8 pages a day. Generally 2 is the standard.

I'll be doing very short b/w comics now so my aim's for 2-4 pages a day (if possible I'd like to have them done by the end of February).

Without Moonlight takes an average of 8 hours per page, unless there are demanding panels, then it can take as much as 12 or so.

Only takes about 30 minutes to an hour to make a page, considering that I don't color my pages. School work and other things give me enought time to make at least two pages a day. I Used to post a heck of a lot on DeviantArt...3 to 4 a day, but after two years of getting nowhere on that site, I just feel mentally exhausted.

For some reason it just felt RIGHT starting all over again on a new site that caters to Comic Artists.

2-3 hours... I think. Could be more like 5 hrs. I lose track of time. Cuz I do my comics sometimes in the astral plane where time doesnt exist. :)

It's hard to say, because it really depends on the page for me. In general I think somewhere between 5 - 8 hours per page. One in color and one in black and white, but it's approximately the same for both, I think.
I did record myself creating one of the pages, though! haha!
drawing inking and shading . That should give a good idea of my process. :D

It takes me a couple of hours to pencil a page, the 2 to 3 hours to ink it. Then, 1-2 hours to letter and tone it. So, really, a day's work on each page. That's about average, I think, for artists who have been drawing a few years... keep in mind these are complex pages. It takes 3-4 hours to color a page instead of grayscaling.

Before when the comic was less detailed and kind of horribly drawn, the minimum would take about 8 hours from sketch to full completion. There was one time though, where colouring alone took about 12 hours to do.

But now that I've decided to put more effort and time into it, on a fast day it could take about 12 hours or so, maybe more.

Strangely enough, I enjoy doing the pages more now that they don't look so suckish.

I really should hang out in the forums more often... LOL!

I do everything with photoshop and a wacom tablet. Since this is my first comic and I'm still learning as I go, pages usually take around 6 hours for me to complete. I think the shortest amount of time I've spent on a single page is 2 hours, but it's gone up to 12 with very complicated ones. Not counting breaks or whatever.

I don't have an update schedule, so I don't give the comic a certain amount of time out of each week. I kinda just do it when I feel like it, but I'm trying to set up a schedule in order to better organize everything.

As for the actual story and characters, I've been working on them through writing, re-writing and drawing for almost 10 years.

I usually crank out about 2 pages a week. The actual drawing takes about 2-3 hours per page, but I'll spend days agonizing over what to actually draw.

I spend probably fifteen hours on the art for an average page of The Greening Wars from the first sketches to the final colorized draft.
I do all the inking by hand in traditional ink, so it makes things go a lot slower because I can't just hit undo if I screw up. I think that the difference it makes is worth the trouble, though, because there are things that traditional ink does on paper that a computer can't replicate. That part takes about 5 hours for a complex page, on top of the time spent sketching the page out. Once that part is done then have to assemble the panels into the page, and make all the pieces fit together right, and then I have to do the digital colorizing, which can take just as long.

I have the writing for my comic done up through the end of book 3 (and I'm just starting book 2), so that makes things quite a bit easier. Aside from the occasional rewrite I already know the general layout and content of a page, so I can focus on the art. Getting the story figured out that far in advance, though, took about 3 months of writing and sketching before I started.

I'm a house husband with two small kids, so I get to work most days for a few hours, in-between changing dirty nappies, doing housework, and watching male soap operas (sports).

When I'm not actively 'doing comics' I'm usually thinking about them, such as when I can't get to sleep, or when I'm being forced to watch Ponyo for the eighteenth time. So I guess that adds up.

My wife is helping me take photos for an upcoming comic (done with Playmobil toys) in the evenings, so that's making my total hours go up at the moment. It's a 144 page horror comic (with a lot of fake blood and dismember toys) and so far we've completed 4 pages ... so we're working hard at night to get that total up before it goes live at the end of the month.

So I'd guess between 1 hour and 6 hours a day, depending on the general chaos around me. (Does the time it takes me to troll the DD forums count?)

I used to take half an hour on a comic page.

I now take an hour. But I have taken multiple hours on making sprites sometimes and I always process a joke for days or at least an entire day, before posting it.

Gunwallace
or when I'm being forced to watch Ponyo for the eighteenth time.

You poor soul. XD