Red Slayer
I like comics.
It was the next logical step.

What he/she/it said.

Also to practice by drawing often and hopefully getting some feedback.

With Horizon? Well, the name and setting have been in my head for about a year now... My sister came up with the name, though :D

First it was a comic of mine, then a fantasy novel planned to be written by my sister (she's a journalist and a historian, cool dude if I may say so) and co-idea -ed & illustrated by me, then I made a RPG out of it and now's the second attempt of a comic. The story and characters have changed a bit every time, but the visual settings and overall feel to it have remained.

I guess I just like feedback and wanted to try making a webcomic for the heck of it. I can't say I'm a very good comic-writer but it's fun nonetheless. :]

Everything I do is experimentation of different art techniques. And some of it is just to practice other things...

But mostly, I want to be able to look back on hundreds (or thousands) of hours of work and know I didn't just piss away that time watching bad sitcom reruns.

I love comics. There is something about sequential art, little drawn ink and color pictures that is very appealing to me.
I'm a graphic artist and I love doing illustrations. I've dabbled in making comics before but all my super hero genre ideas died a slow death. I didn't feel I had anything new to say about guys with powers and tights, blasting at each other, and so my interest would fade each time.
Eventually, I found stumbled onto web comics. That got me thinking about doing one myself. I wanted to tell a story, that had gay characters, and do it right, in a way that appealed to me. I didn't want to do Meatman porn or an annoying boy's love comic. Those are fine genres but not what I wanted to do. I had a long commute to think about plots and characters, body paints and starships, ruminations about immortality and change, sexy ethnic guys and epic struggles, and the comic came together.
I like the web comic format, where I can post, at this rate, a page a month and still have a set of people read and comment on it. Where I don't have to be commercially viable and strip out all the interesting elements to appeal to a mass audience.

I met someone randomly in AIM who did one (and he even mailed me some materials!) I'd wanted to get into it for a while, but that was the final push I needed.

Too bad he's long since disappeared from the 'net.

I got way tired of working on the same webcomci for 3 years, and I felt that in order to get back my creativity, I had to force myself to make a new story and draw different characters. Almost out of desperation. I should feel a bit guilty about practically dropping one project and just starting up another, but I really don't. :D

It's my work, I have no obligations to complete it for anyone.

Other than those reasons, I really sat down and started it because I was bored. lol

I had the story idea in my head for over 5 years, but I hesitated to draw it out because my art wasn't as good as I wanted it to be......I was un happy with my creations. So much so that I didn't come up with the main characters final profile till this year. Eventually I made a friend in school who is also a fellow DDer and I finally decided to start my comic. It's also made it easier to have photoshop and a tablet to work with.

As for my comic strips, those started up after I had fooled around and created one comic strip out of shear boredom. Eventually I was pestered by my friends to continue and did so a couple months later.

Pochi
I guess I just like feedback and wanted to try making a webcomic for the heck of it. I can't say I'm a very good comic-writer but it's fun nonetheless. :]

Whee~hee, Pochi's here!
Pochi's comic is cotton candy for the soul!
Link a banner to your comic, layabout!

Thompson Gunners- Well, Warren Zevon's Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner was obviously where I got Roland from, only he's not dead, or headless. The other characters were inspired by other songs, Kenya - St. Jimmy, Aliah - Bark at the moon, etc. etc. Then I decided to put them all together in a story, then I refined it over and over again, until one day I decided to draw out all the characters into one group shot, then I just started drawing the comic pages (I drew 12 of them in a week) and bam. Now I got a comic.

Soda Bread - Rusty was a drawing I used to put on my name tags (We're allowed to make our own nametags at work), and I decided that I wanted a funny comic along with Thompson Gunners, and there ya go. Soda Bread.

I started SbH after I entered a contest with a 4 page comic and then my friends from Highschool urged me to continue it and show them what happened next o_o
Eversince then I've resolved to use SbH as a tool to learn by, its also addictive to work on and increadibly fun ^_^

Because Minna Galford appeared to me in a dream and asked me to give her life.

Just kidding!

I had always thought about doing a comic about characters I've played/met while playing MMORPGs, but then decided on an original character interacting with them instead. And the idea grew from there. :)

Though my comic isn't there yet, the setting will eventually take place in a rather large inn/tavern that her older sister will be opening in town. Come to think of it, maybe I can put a few characters from Drunkduck artists in that place. (I like making cameos of all the other comics I've been reading). :)

Well, I started because I liked fantasy stories and manga, because I enjoy drawing, and because my cousin already wrote fanfiction of some series, so I decided why don't I start my own. It started really simple (I was 11 y/o) with just the dialogs, and some ilustrations here and there. And then just a year ago, I decided that it was time to do the real manga version, so here it is.

The first part (where it was just dialogs) succeded, because my cousin and I had great times talking about it, and adding things and stuff, with the years it evolded from being just a kids story to be the story of a whole world, with it's own languages, writtings and rules

What me? The Need.

I've had the idea and need to tell my story for over 7 years, I couldn't really hold it in any longer. If I did, it would of killed me! >< Plus, I always knew at some point I would have to tell it to someone.

Do I expect people to like it?
Not really, but, there'll be people who'll like or even love what story I'm telling, so if I was to give up or quit, I'll just be hurting the people I've made happy. ^_^

A sugar high combined with little as no sleep.

Djeinus
A sugar high combined with little as no sleep.

Yeah, that sounds about right. I was goofing around late at night with a couple of friends, and before we knew it, we had the beginnings of a story. A comic just seemed like the most natural medium to tell it.

Destiny.

OK, (deep breath) ever since I was very small I have held a deep love and appreciation for 'the bush'.

Growing up on a 200 acre mountain valley property with lots of native scrub nurtured this.

I learnt from this young age that our environment was all-important... an unhealthy environment meant assured, if slow, destruction of our species.

Nothing angers me more than seeing humans polluting and abusing our world... how can they be so stupid?

In my teens I took up playing the didgerydoo. I used to go down into the paddocks at night and play under the stars.
It wasn't long until I began to feel or sense a 'presence' while I played and I imagined I saw an old aboriginal face hovering in the night sky above me... not looking down at me but simply looking out into the world as I played. The face was very sad.

I completely forgot about these experiences until about 6 or 7 years ago when I was attending the closing ceremony of the Woodford Folk Festival. There, to the accompaniment of a didge player the face appeared in the night sky again. This time it looked down at me with a dissapointed expression.
I realised then that I had forgotten my promise to do everything I could to help the natural world.

I began to use my cartoon classes at schools to spread a bit of an environmental message... some stories of the characters I was teaching grew into the comic, Min n Fin.

Sure, people have created comics and cartoons with an environmental message before... but at great cost to the story. If the story comes first, the message will be more subtle and therefor more powerful.

I will never forget that face again... it was huge... to me it was an embodyment of the 'spirit of the land'.

And it was also very real... sad, but real.