I've been drawing and creating stories and characters ever since I was little and now the internet has provided a simple, quick and easy outlet for me to share my creativity with my peers. It's about time! LOL! :-D

Well I'm from a film background and love storytelling in general.
Due to my hectic lifestyle, getting a film project off the ground with various people and the schedules involved with that is impossible for me to do right now.

I've written articles, essays and various other writing work here and there, but Comic stories is the best way for me to statisfy the ass-loads of ideas in my head and be able to tell a story from start to finish.

To be honest, finding an artist was the hardest thing to do, but now that we have one, it's just flowing and it's all coming together and kick-assedly. (yes, it's a word AND an adverb!)

I got into web comics because i love drawing comics. It's my dream to one day see my comic come to life in a live action movie! I've always said that i would rather get paid little for doing something i love, than a lot for something i don't love. But,realisticly, getting noticed is hard and paying for publishing with a wife and three kids is even harder. So, at least with webcomics, no one can stop you from living part of your dream, even if they ignore you. It's also good therapy to recieve honest critique about your art, when you can get them. DD came highly recommended by other artist, so i decided to give it a try. I really like DD and it's been a great leaning experience for me. I wish i could recieve more comments and critique about my comic, but i guess that will come with time.

http://drunkduck.com/gladiator_school

Oddly, I never really intended to do a webcomic. I had a few gag ideas, and thought I'd do three or four small comics to make my friends laugh. Then I got a few more ideas, and made a few more friends laugh, and the whole thing snowballed. Now it's four years later and the comic's my life. Huh.

Because I can't afford to print.

i'm driven by tidal forces and because unfortunately i would be in jail for the kind of damage i unleash in every chapter.

I guess i like to tell stories and of course i like attention :P

I've been in print for an independent publisher as a writer but that was for the biographical comics of two politicians and one famous musician. I'm glad i had the experience of doing them but it's not really the type of stories i want to tell.
It's always hard to find an artist who will work to your schedule when your just an unknown writer, and so i've decided i'll learn to draw my own stuff. I know my drawing isn't exactly professional, let alone good, but i'm hoping that it will improve with time. Mostly i'm hoping that my writing will improve dramatically in the next year or so and that people will enjoy the stories i tell. Then maybe one day i'll make it into print again as a writer that gets to write the stories that he wants to tell.

It's fun to make your own unique stories and be involved in a community with similar interests =)
The possibilities are limitless and you can make whatever you want to make cause you are in control (:< *evil laugh*

I have FAR roo many stories in my head that I need to get out before I exploded. Or go nutso if that hasn't happen already.

Because I'm an attention whore.

Haha, I kid. Sort of. It's because I've ALWAYS wanted to do a webcomic. Not only that, but I have stories I'd love to tell. I've failed 3 times to really get a comic going, each one more frustrating that the last when it didn't go my way. With my last one I made it to 13 comics before I called it quits.

But the one I'm working on now, it *really* means something to me, as I'm having a kid, and I want to document all of my days leading up to and after I have my kid :) I *want* to work on it, it's something I wanna look back on and be like "Wow, I remember that." Plus maybe when my kid is older, he or she will want to go through it all and see everything that happened, everything we went through.

It's a daily strip with 27 entries so far, and I'm still going strong. I couldn't be any happier with how it's turning out. :)

I still have one comic I'd like to try to get up and running, but I still need to finish writing it. It's an epic fantasy type of story. I'm no writer, so I have a LOT of work to do before I even start to draw it. I'll get that one going sometime though. ;)

Because I love drawing. Loved it ever since I was 5. I've al;ways wanted to go into the animation industry & right now I'm realizing my dream.

I've been working on mt Beast Legion concept for over 5 years now, adding stuff, scrapping old ideas etc. I love it when people enjoy my art & I get to make new friends thanks to something I absolutely love doing. But my main aim is to someday make my Beast Legion comic into an Anime either by myself or through some Awesome studio so that the world can enjoy. Easier said than done but who knows. :D

Because I LOVE it. I've been drawing comics since I was a kid. My first original one was 'The Truly Outrageous Adventures of Totally Awesome Man.' It sucked.

The comic I'm doing now because the story's been in my head for years and I finally have the time, art supplies and will to do it. :)


Hooray for stocking up on so much paper and ink I can draw for years :P

I do it because I love drawing and writing my own material. Plus, making people laugh makes me feel happy. =03

reasons why I'm doing a webcomic

1. Because I have a story to tell

2. Because creating a TV show movie or even a print comic is out of my price range

It's hard to explain why I'm doing the comic that I am in any manner which makes it sound sane. The best way for me to sum it up is (A) my comic is something which I wish to exist, ( B ) I don't believe anyone other than me is going to create it, and (C) I probably wouldn't myself be interested in working on it some years down the road, so (D) therefore I'm trying to get it created now. So that it can exist. Does that make any sense? Yeah, didn't think so either. Oh well.

Not for fame, not because of the (nonexistent) money to be made, but because they said I couldn't.

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I started doing webcomics as a therapy. Because back when I was younger I was totally depressed and wanted to kill myself and I needed an outlet for all my angst.

Nowadays, the reason I do webcomics is because I think that webcomics are a medium to help unlock people's minds.

I'm in the same position as this.

My first 'character' sprung up in 1999 back when I was sharing a dorm at the local children's shelter, but once I finally settled in with some relatives and eventually went to a decent middle school and high school further on, it became more than just little scribbles. Sure, at the time was more of a 'self-insert', but I didn't know that at the time. My mom wasn't really keeping up with the new trends, and I wasn't working, so we didn't have a computer to know about what literature was to people elsewhere (i.e. 'fan-fictions', 'Mary Sues/Marty Stu', etc.) So, by then, it became one of those kinds of comics.

However, hard to believe, I was surprised by the creative and inventive, talented, and quite artistic people I've met over the years since then. I gradually worked on my style little by little; I can't say mine is the best now, and still looks more of the same as it did in the later years (I went from scrawny heads and tiny hands, cone bodies) to being able to at least imitate the style of the human body, animal characters, and so on. That gave me the ability to observe a broader horizon, if not following most trends presently available.

Writing the original series though, helped me escape the troubles of everyday life. It wasn't the kind of comic that was against something, like an anti-school message or 'hate thy parents' or something like that. Mine was more along the lines of a 'tribute' sort of comic. Three dudes and their DeLorean revisiting key moments in their favorite Saturday Morning cartoons. Even in high school, most of my friends at the time were feeling nostalgic. We still wanted to remember what made us laugh, even by early 2000 - 2003. Anime was in there too.

Popularity and getting my name out there was never a major concern for me. I guess I was a little peeved that year I got cheated out of a WCCA nomination, but in general I never expected my comics to explode in popularity. It was more about establishing a routine to keep me drawing regularly and push myself into exploring things I never would otherwise. Today I don't work on any web comics partly because some of those ideas I want to see about bringing to TV and partly because I get what I was looking for in web comics from animation, now.

I would like to go back to TGG some day, but the artwork in the current pages is so far behind where I am now and the storyline still needs so much work, I'm not sure when I'll have the time to revamp everything.

I'd been making comics since my early childhood, and few - if any - people were reading them. So, fast forward to my late teens: My cousin tells me there's this NEXT BIG THING - webcomics. But back then, the thought of showing any of my comics to anybody I didn't know didn't really appeal to me. But over the next five years, I slowly built up an internet presence and included my comics on my website. I was terribly slow back then - I drew maybe six to eight pages a semester (during semester break). Still, after a few years, I had accumulated some chapters of my first comic series, A.D 1997. I don't remember exactly how it happened, but I came across smackjeeves.com, and figured that I could afford to upload pages daily for a while and maybe actually get some readers. That's what I did, and that's what I got. Response was overwhelmingly positive, especially considering that I had barely had ANY feedback up to that point. One of my readers was Nepath, who took his comic Energize to drunkduck.com. I followed him, and the rest - as they say - is history :D

So, to sum it up, there's no specific reason, but rather, it was a natural progression based on more than one coincidence. I have a natural disposition to want to make comics, and the fact that I can publish them as webcomics and that I always got great feedback and met great people sort of amplifies that disposition.

All of that led to a more steady comic output on my part. And when I joined drunkduck, it turned into a veritable snowball effect. Thanks to drunkduck, I am as productive as I've never been before in my whole life.

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No, really!! :D

I basically started webcomic-ing as a form of training to help me draw effeciently in the shortest amount of time i possibly can. I'm a self-taught artist, and being on DD allowed me to improve my drawing discipline and learn more techniques on how to draw manga and comics in general. The first webcomic that I ever read was No Rest For the Wicked, and that webcomic sorta created an impact on me, made me wanna do my own, and i realized for the first time I could post and share my comics online, then I found drunkduck, and the rest is history. XD

I have enough free time during each night to draw, and my love of comics will never dissipate. My goal for my comic is to at least make it into the top 10!