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How's Your comic?
"the last hyw did really well. but this is hyc so expect this one to fail..." Edition

FAQ
>How do I make a comic?
https://blambot.com/pages/comic-script-basics
https://design.tutsplus.com/articles/how-to-storyboard-basic-guides-for-aspiring-artists--cms-30962
https://www.clipstudio.net/how-to-draw/archives/160963
https://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/create-a-comic-how-to-plan-and-lay-out-your-comic--cms-24179

>What if I can’t draw?
https://www.clipstudio.net/how-to-draw/archives/160863
https://www.archisoup.com/architecture-line-types-and-weights
https://www.creativecomicart.com/basics-part-1.html
https://www.creativebloq.com/advice/how-to-colour-comics
https://jaejohns.com/drawing-backgrounds/

>What’s the best site to upload to?
https://www.domestika.org/en/blog/4757-6-free-websites-to-publish-your-own-comic-online
https://comicfury.com/
https://globalcomix.com/
https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/

>How do I get more people to read my comic?
https://www.thingsinsquares.com/blog/how-to-optimize-comics-for-google-search/
https://leetoo.net/how-to-promote-and-drive-traffic-to-your-webcomic/
https://html.com/blog/50-resources-start-making-a-webcomic/

> Thread Question:
how's your comic?

>Thread Challenge:
Post your comic
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The one comic https://tapas.io/episode/3862106
The other comic https://fantasyjank.cfw.me/comics/3/
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>>153951068
is that really your comic? I didn't click the link. do you want to know why?
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damn . this thread is going to die already? I guess I must bump it with my incredible mr. Stikk comic.
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>tfw can't draw
It's already over.
>tfw worldbuilding is hard, and it turns out nobody actually cares
I'm gonna fucking kill myself.
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>>153953373
wow. that's a sad story. you could even make a really pathetic comic about it. but you cant draw so nevermind.
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>>153953247
Is this AI generated?
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>>153955176
yeah. but this one isn't. its the brand new mr. stikk comic. which may possibly be the worst mr. stikk comic yet.
mr stikk - has Autism (a special comic)
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Started a new comic series earlier this year called "Magical Girl Corps: Short Comics"

Mostly a gag comic but I'm laying the groundwork for a story arc. I've committed to enough chapters where I feel comfortable sharing,

Full Comic can be read here:

https://globalcomix.com/c/magical-girl-corps-short-comics

Pages from latest update:
Episode 7 - Authentic Hong Kong Coffee Tea (1/6)
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pages 3-4
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>>153955404
pages 5-6
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The Girl Genius creators have said only 5 more volumes/years to go before they finish.
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Scripting for the first full arc (3 graphic novels) complete. Starting storyboarding now. May want to partner with another artist to do inking and backgrounds while I do storyboarding and penciling. Doing this all myself is going to take me like 10 years for just this arc and I have 10x this planned.
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https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/anno-arcana/list?title_no=1037454

https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/anno-arcana/grisly-groves-part-six/viewer?title_no=1037454&episode_no=27

Oh nice I updated today. My comic is going well so far, but updating frequently is harder than I thought, stamina is difficult to work with lol.
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Do you guys use your real name for credits? Wondering if I should do the same
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>>153956022
>If you ever intend on publishing for real it wouldn't hurt for future opportunities.
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>>153956022
Don't use your real name online, anon.
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>>153956022
I do, but I'm careful about where I link my work
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Still working on it.
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>>153955416
>came all the way to /co/ to post an arrow to the knee joke in 2026
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Here's my latest comic book character, it's CRAZY HORSE
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>>153958578
I love Neil Young. :>
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>Wrote a script in january
>Let it settle before revising it any further
>Saw a couple of movies that inspired me
>Now I want to rewrite the script from zero
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>>153955390
cheralxfinch 4ever
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>>153955404
>>153955416
This is actually kinda good.
Keep at it.
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Any ideas for a horror comic?
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>>153959661
sure, publish a million-copy selling volume and see how much the irs takes of that million
there's some real horror
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>>153959668
Lol.
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>>153958642
well... nothings stopping you from improving it :)
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>>153950866
>How's Your comic?
Finally buckled up and did a page.
Pages that require the characters to stay still for multiple panels are both easy and hard to draw, and I'm lazy as hell.
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>>153960212
>Finally buckled up and did a page.
did you go on hiatus or something?
nice page.
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Going to prep my first 10 pages or so today including this prologue. I had some downtime to do this test page. Hoping to have about 20 pages done before the end of June
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Got 6 pages done this week, got 2 more inked today. Finally getting to the fun pages of this chapter.
>>153960212 Yay more Hotel :D
Keep up the good work everyone!
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>>153961036
cool car drawing. makes me realize I want to draw some cars. I never do
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not a comic but I got a comment from content creator Frankie Fey for this fanart. kind of a decent accomplishment for me ? maybe
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I have a completed layout for my comic, but now I need to draw like 90 full pictures and I just haven't gotten around to picking up da pencil

>>153953373
>can't draw
Hasn't stopped anyone before
>nobody cares about worldbuilding
And that's a good thing!
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>>153955390
I will have lustful thoughts about those girls
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>>153959661
Make the unfunnies 2
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>>153959661
On a serious note do what Nathan Fielder did on that one episode and make a comic curated to a specific name, and then market to people with that name like it's some sort of le epic meta creepyasta
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>>153961228
It's been a long journey and I still can't draw the car very well, but I'm getting there. Drawing cars definitely intimidates people for good reason. This entire chapter is torturing myself by drawing the car and lots and lots and lots of backgrounds.
It can be very, very fun to draw cars though!
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>>153959661
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what do you guys think of the color here? I'll post the inks below, but I feel like I mighta fucked it
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I wish these threads were as popular as the gamemaker threads on /v/ :(
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Does anyone have any experience with Slave Labor's self publishing program? How about Image comic's applicant program? They seem too good to be true but I imagine the industry is a little desperate right now for new voices.
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>>153962292
I can't answer your question, but I'll add to it in hopes of stimulating the conversation. I wonder if a literary agent might be able to provide support in navigating these kinds of applicant programs.
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>>153962292
>be black and/or indigenous and/or gay and/or female
>get published
Simple as
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>>153962558
I don't know if that's still true in 2026, and especially not in comics.
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Duhhhh
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>>153963052
I want to fuck Sudden Girlfriend
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>>153960726
Thanks. Yeah I took a pause because of life.

>>153961036
>Got 6 pages done this week, got 2 more inked today.
you monster
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>>153962292
>applies to a publisher once
>forever stuck with spam from their editor in chief's side hustle

just keep in mind this may happen, but otherwise, good luck!
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Cozy Bump!
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>>153963390
That's nice
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>>153961633
>>153961697
I'd make the background much darker than the foreground so the main character stands out more
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>>153962558
>and/or gay
Where have you been published, anon?
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>>153960212
A Hotel update? In this economy?
>>153961036
>Got 6 pages done this week
That's an INSANE weekly rate. I'd like to get to that when I start making pages again, I think the most I ever did was an average of 4- 5 a week.
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>>153961633
I like the colors a lot, it reminds me of the early/mid 2000's grunge look in magazine ads and movie trailers. I would just work on the shading and color mixing on the faces. Your line art is perfectly fine but the way the faces are colored make them look kinda deformed.
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>>153963032
It's true for all English language publishing.
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thinking of making a comic where 2 main characters absolutely hate eachother. girl is an aryan stacy and the guy is a lame incel who is in love with her. shes the chosen one and has it as a birthright. then I'm going to have her die horrifically before the prophecy is fulfilled and the incel is traumatized and become hitler and kills minorities of the magical world to keep the order "in her honor". then he is beaten by the power of friendship by the stacy's forgotten younger brother who was thrown out for being trans. she is the true chosen one and shit i might keep her blonde haired and blue eyed though havent decided. thoughts?
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>>153966906
Nice
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>>153967623
>thoughts?
What the fuck are you talking about?
Is my first thought.
My second thought is that shit built to make a political statement doesn't stay relevant, no matter what.
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>>153967623
seen like something I would read. You should make it.
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>>153967623
Weird.
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>>153967325
I don't know how to say this but it's not 2015 anymore. We aren't talking about colleges or the tech sphere or Marvel. A 20 year old white guy just got handed a 10 million dollar movie that is beating the first Star Wars in 7 years at the box office. Woke is dead, man.
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>>153967623
It's pretty good until the brother comes in, maybe there's another way to achieve the same point without having a random transgender character show up out of (what I imagine) is nowhere
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>tfw I want mechs in my story, but I can't justify them
It's so over.
>"why do you need to justify them?"
Cause I don't want to get bombs sent to my house.
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>>153962273
But that's where Betz hangs nowadays. You don't want to go there.
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>>153969566
What trouble are you having justifying them? Resources? Energy sources? Antagonists? If you tell us we can try to help
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I just thought of making a werewolf story.
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>>153950866
Still on hiatus for being a lazy ass, but that gives you time to read the chapters.
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>>153970367
https://figliodargento.net/
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>>153969396
Funny that there will eventually be a generation of old people *still* bitching and moaning about woke like they're stuck in 2018. I grew up around old people who would complain about people buying "Japanese cars" like it was still WW2, these guys will be the 2060's equivalent of that.
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>>153970528
>Eight years ago? No no no no. That's ancient.
These fucking posts couldn't be more ChatGPT.
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>>153961009
This’ll either be my lifes work or I’ll die trying
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>>153970367
>>153970393
Looks cool.
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NEW page. started it a while ago but been making other things
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>>153971627
...and here's the page I'm making right now
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>>153971683
..........and here's the page I'm making right now
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I'm currently making my comic site right now since it's doesn't have that "main place" feeling. Btw the comic is Me & My Part.
I'm have been publishing it on Bsky and Tumblr, and saw interest in shilling it on here and Reddit.
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>>153970077
Physics. Mechs just don't make any sense.
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>>153959808
yes but I beend rafting and revising this story for like two years and i need to settle in a final project.
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>>153950866
furry bpd
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I'm finally getting to drawing roughs of the fun pages for this chapter. These are so, so fun.
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>>153969486
im thinking of the prophecy being this shitty dud thats hyped up to be girl-specific, and have the brother teased a few times by the "villian of the week" to get a reaction out of the girl. like the brother doesnt qualify because shes "not a girl" but she claims to be a girl so now what? it destabilizes her position as the "prophecy girl" which is why the brother gets kicked out. the incel who becomes hitler is extra mad at this by the end bc he thinks if the brother just stayed quiet and didnt make it a thing the stacy wouldnt have died or something.
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>>153974225
Oh boy... you'll have to study engineering if you want the physics to make sense. You could also do your own thing. I think of a tank, and how impractical it looks until you see it in action. In my opinion a mech doesn't necessarily have to be flexible and have lots of articulation. If you need it to be realistic making it bulkier and harder to move would do a lot. Plus, it would make your creation stand out a lot more than your typical super giant run fast and do CQC mech
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>>153975659
I've been there. Sometimes you just have to put 7 years into your script until you realize you don't even want to make it anymore. It's part of the learning process. You will be a much better and more efficient writer once you get over this hump.

>>153970528
Yeah probably.

>>153970573
If you think these posts are Chatgpt you gotta get your head checked man. 8 years isn't a long time to YOU (or to me). But you have to think of it as a two way street because 6 year olds weren't being influenced by woke in 2018, so we have about 15 years worth of people who don't even know it was a thing! Plus, men currently ages like, 22-35 are hostile towards it because they were 16-27 during the height of that bullshit. It was awful and it sucked and it ruined a lot of things but it's over and practically everyone is calling out new examples of it. Audiences want new things again! It's a very exciting time for the creative industries right now.
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>>153971627
I like the style! I don't mean to be insensitive or make you feel self conscious but is it like that on purpose or are you still trying to improve?
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Why does taking ideas from dreams feel like cheating? It's like, you couldn't come up with that while conscious, so it's not acceptable.
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>>153977714
all my oc are dreams
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>>153977067
I have a similar concept, but it's more along the lines of walking cities and yes, it does require extreme amounts of engineering. Essentially, scouts going ahead conduct assessments of the rock and soil before the city takes a step, they identify areas of weakness, then drill down and fill with a hardening solution. Then, when the foot touches down, it inflates pads around the foot to increase surface area and keep the city from sinking. Then from between the pads, drilling rods anchor into the rock to provide stability as the city shifts its weight.
These are a few general ideas from my comic, but they're years away from seeing illustration because they're coming later in the story. Hope this inspires you, mech guy!
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>>153977067
>>153977886
I feel like the general issues with mechs basically go away if the things are smaller. Make them like 3 meters, and the square cube law stops being a problem.

But then you have to worry about... I don't know what to call this. Narrative logistics? Like, the characters can't use mechs for everything, so it feels like the audience will get pissy if you have the heroes leave their mechs to go fight inside a building or something.
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>>153977154
> is it like that on purpose or are you still trying to improve?
what does that mean? both really. the comic (Paraplux Remux) is a weird comic. here's the previous page.



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