Source of Inspiration

Cope · Post by **Cope** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 12:03 pm

I dunno...television?

ChibiJess · Post by **ChibiJess** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 12:18 pm

My inspiration comes from the world around me, and from people I meet, even in passing.

Most of the story has been floating in my head for years, and just evolves as I meet more people and experience more things.

(Nothing really interesting)

LibertyCabbage · Post by **LibertyCabbage** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 12:45 pm

Killbert-Robby wrote:

I'll clear this up for you

Basically, LC gets his inspiration from the depths of Hades itself.

I considered saying 'Lucifer', but that'd be too easy =/

Dutch! · Post by **Dutch!** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 1:59 pm

Simple. The kids I interact with on a daily basis. There's enough there from here until I retire in thirty odd years to hypothetically keep School Spirit going until then. I couldn't ask for a better bunch of inspiration.

Wishmaster · Post by **Wishmaster** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 4:08 pm

For stories, most anything can inspire me really. Real life experiences, myths and legends, old movies, conspiracy theories, songs or music videos, something in the news, the Tarot, the Book of Lists, whatever.

As far as what inspired me to do comics, and more specifically the kind of comic I am doing (Wish anyway, Doc and GfB owe different things to different sources), Robert Crumb, the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Phil Foglio, Vaughn Bode, the Far Side, South Park, Popeye, Archie, Calvin and Hobbes, and on and on and on.

Comics are fun.

Garneta · Post by **Garneta** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 4:23 pm

Wish that for RotD I could say "Jim" but that doesn't seem to work...

Sincerely · Post by **Sincerely** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 7:07 pm

I have no idea!

I don't have a life, so I can't say I get my inspiration from that. I think it's just impressions. I want to do such-and-such a thing, so I build a story around how that would happen. I build characters and then see what happens when I throw them into this situation or that situation and build a story around it.

Col · Post by **Col** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 8:39 pm

I get inspired when I'm on my way to work, or I'm at work, and by the time I get home I'm too tired to do anything about it. Rassa frassum...

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 8:42 pm

Col wrote:I get inspired when I'm on my way to work, or I'm at work, and by the time I get home I'm too tired to do anything about it. Rassa frassum...

HA HA! That is so true for me too. I always have a notebook with me because my best ideas come about when I'm doing other tihngs.

Dave Against The Machine · Mon Apr 24, 2006 9:23 pm

My inspiration is Cope. I know if i get far enough, I get mutiant confeti.

Seriously. I usually get mine from work. You should hear the enteresting conversations I over hear ther. Being a comic artist, (use the word artist lossly

) I'm like, THAT WOULD BE A GREAT IDEA! Then I get weird looks. Seriously, I acidently yelled that out once. My inner thoughts wern't working to well that day.

Pimpette · Post by **Pimpette** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 1:16 am

My inspiration?

Story-wise: Conversations with friends. The entire cast and basic concept of Pimpette & Assc. was birthed out of a series of random conversations in my last year of high school.
The fictional band Face Pants Fire also came out of a really random MSN conversation - I was spewing out strings of random words at someone (I forget why, but I'm sure there was a reason) and he picked out the words "Face Pants Fire" and started laughing. Eventually we decided it would be a hilarious name for a band.

Character-Design-Wise: "Hey, I'm bored. Time to doodle! Hey... this guy's pretty cool-looking. I wonder if I can shove him into a story somewhere so I have an excuse to draw him some more?"
Again with the Face Pants Fire. I got bored a night or two after the birth of the name, and doodled some people in a band, and decided they could be FPF.
Plus I draw scribbly comics of the FPF guys when I get bored, because they're so silly and cute. And it's a relief to draw something other than Pimpette comics, sometimes.

Guildmaster Van · Post by **Guildmaster Van** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 3:45 am

*thinks*

I get inspiration from video games a lot, as well as fantasy games.
While playing games like Warcraft, Guild Wars, Ragnarok and what-not I have the tendency to take the character I'm playing with and give them a backstory or at least garner some ideas from the game itself. Samara, for example, originally came from my exploits in Diablo II with a Fire-based sorceress character.

Another source comes from Wizards of the Coasts' Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: the Gathering, but they mainly influence my perspective on the world I created rather than the individuals.

In regards to my style Genndy Tartakovsky, the guy behind Samurai Jack and others, Josh Howard (Dead@17) and Mike Krahulik of Penny Arcade have contributed to my art style, which has now taken a life of its own.

Music also helps me draw and write. Using my mp3 walkman I'll listen to tunes and think of conflicts and situations that could fit the music. Needless to say I've very big on Nightwish in this respect. I also use bands like Therion, P.E. Posthumus, Tristania, Era, Enigma, Loreena McKennitt, Arcana and Nobuo Uematsu.

Fadri · Post by **Fadri** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 4:01 am

I have no idea... It could be the boredom. When I'm bored in class, I get an inspiration rush.

Realityendshere · Post by **Realityendshere** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 9:29 am

Hmmm... "Inspired" and "Reality Ends Here" don't really belong in the same sentence...

My insane conversations have actually contributed to my jokes and story arcs more than anything else...

Oh right... and I sold my soul. To RYClaude.

Dark Spider · Post by **Dark Spider** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 6:14 am

For Niece Web, I come up with the basic premise from out of random things that I may come across in my life. The Disasterous Date story is based on my own frustrations with a girl who acted like Neoma did. The Chatterbox Technique story is based on this old 70s movie called "Chatterbox" about this woman with a talking vagina. The Rainy Day Club is based on the ideas surrouding the Breakfast Club movie. After the basic premise is down, then the plot is completely character driven and it sort of writes itself.

For the Credenza of Nothing comic (which isn't available yet), I take stuff from current events and any other topical nonsense that I think of or come across.

My art style is inspired VERY loosely from anime, but its developed into its own style now. I want to improve it, but I lack the free time available to do so.

[geoduck] · Post by **[geoduck]** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 7:15 am

One of my characters is loosely based on me, and at least two others on relatives of mine.

I recently realized that a big subliminal influence on the entire strip was John Bellair's book "A House With A Clock In Its Walls." My Mansion is pretty much the House, writ large.

Starline · Post by **Starline** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 6:57 pm

Things that inspire me:
My friends, ferret, birds, family, and just a general thirst to improve and want to create something cool.

Webcomics and comics that inspire me:
It's Walky. http://www.itswalky.com
Wapsi Square. http://www.wapsisquare.com
Comics to Make Love To- http://www.lowbright.com/
Blue Monday- http://www.onipress.com
Scott Pligrim Vs. The World - http://www.onipress.com

Dave Against The Machine · Wed Apr 26, 2006 9:01 pm

OMG! CANDI!!!!! I forgot all about you comic! I havent read it in like a month.
*goes to read it*

Starline · Post by **Starline** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 10:45 pm

Dave Against The Machine wrote:OMG! CANDI!!!!! I forgot all about you comic! I havent read it in like a month.
*goes to read it*

>_>
<_<

Dotty · Post by **Dotty** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 12:34 am

Various media, really. From playing shitloads of games as a kid, and all the fantasy worlds I immersed myself in moving from home to home to home to home. No stability till I was 12, so I played games. Magic: the Gathering is a huge influence on what I do. That should be very apparent with the various references I slap in there.

That and the trance thing Claude mentioned. I have that "problem" too. :p

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