What got you started with it all?

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 8:59 am

Isukiyomi wrote:
PeppermintAfterlife wrote:
Isukiyomi wrote: Wesleyan University
Hmmmm. I went to Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington. Maybe all the Wesleyans call their newspaper "Argus".
Mine's in CT. And we also have a paper called "Hermes". The fun jokes of Greek mythology.

Ha ha! Yeah. I think parent's weekend should be renamed Medea weekend.

Genesis_13 · Post by **Genesis_13** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 9:20 pm

Megatokyo, around spring 2003. I know because it was almost right before I started my webcomic.

It was referenced by my friend on AIM, and he was all like "you haven't read MT?" and I'm all like "no"....and so I got a link...

To tell you the truth, I was amazed that there were even comics online, available for free. I hadn't really thought about it before...

Birdie · Post by **Birdie** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 6:58 am

Back in 2002, I was on a mailing list for a little known Illinios band called "Wolfie" they would send announcements and people would discuss the band a bit with Joe and Amanda who kept up with the mailings. I found Todd Allison's comic Bobbins from there and spent about a week or so reading his entire archives and man was it worth it. After that I found Diesel Sweeties, 8 Bit Theater and slowly started discovering more comics.
Sadly of all the comics I liked reading, most of them quit, or would miss their updates or go on long hiatuses so I spent the next year creating characters, and ideas and figuring out the easiest way to keep up with a simple schedule and see if I can make a stupid comic that would follow my formula for success.

Ooh I didn't know I was going to rant like this

Spriteville, USA · Post by **Spriteville, USA** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 7:30 am

First Online Comic: Something Positive
Time: Fall 2003
Effect: It was cool. I'm always a fan of people who go off and dedicate themselves to things without expecting anything in return. He has managed to make a living off of SP but he practically did that to shut people up about not updating every single day.

From there I was surprised at just how much material there was out there. At times it literally felt that everyone and their mother had one (for better or worse). I explored through links, hopping from one comic to the next. It really doesn't ever seem to end.

And so at some point I saw sprite comics and the rest is a dull boring history.

Ferguson · Post by **Ferguson** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 9:01 am

First webcomic I read was User Friendly, probably around 2 years ago. It wasn't until somebody forced me to read Penny Arcade that I really got into them. A year or so ago I started doing single panel cartoons for my personal website until one day at work I got some longer term script ideas and started trying to do a comic. Now I'm out of ideas and I have to make it up day by day.

(supernerdcore, don't you like the new avatar?)

The Neko · Post by **The Neko** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 9:52 am

Genesis_13 wrote:Megatokyo, around spring 2003. I know because it was almost right before I started my webcomic.

It was referenced by my friend on AIM, and he was all like "you haven't read MT?" and I'm all like "no"....and so I got a link...

To tell you the truth, I was amazed that there were even comics online, available for free. I hadn't really thought about it before...

That was the same thing for me, but in the Summer of 2001.
Then I think I got hooked on Real Life, and the chain went on from there.

I didn't KNOW there were comics online.

BeefotronX · Post by **BeefotronX** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 12:32 pm

The first webcomic I read was Sluggy Freelance. I remember spending the better part of three days reading the archives.. and that was in 2001, in the fall sometime. The people I was eating lunch with started talking about it and I realized I had no idea what they were talking about.

Thinginess of Chaos has its roots in classroom doodles from my senior year of high school (2002/3), but Sluggy had a strong influence in my forming it into a story.

KeenCrow · Post by **KeenCrow** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 2:32 pm

I honestly don't remember how I got started in it all. I'm sure it was one of the big names that I read first, but I can't pin down one, because I've never been a big fan of any of them, or read through their whole archives or anything.

Orion · Post by **Orion** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 2:42 pm

The first comic for me was one called Neon Umbra, a world of darkness inspired werewolf comic. The art was cool and the story seemed silly but interesting, however it was pretty much dead when I found it and it seems to no longer exist.

But its link page led me first to Goats, which then led to Sluggy and Penny arcade, and now my bookmarks are full to bursting.

Faub · Post by **Faub** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 3:04 pm

I think the first comic I read online was Real Life. It didn't impress me so I didn't get into it then. This was probably around '98 or '99. I got serious about reading webcomics when I found the Parking Lot is Full, ResLife, Tuesday comic, Angst Tech, PVP, Penny Arcade and a couple others. I didn't know about Keenspace until about 4 months before my comic started (even though ResLife was ON keenspace).

The reason I started doing webcomics was Errant Story. Everything before that had lame artwork, it was strip based or it basically didn't seem worth copying. Here was a comic with a decent storyline and good artwork. I thought, I can do that. So I tried. Two years later I have a different style than Poe and much inking techniques are nowhere as accomplished as his but I have a comic and I fully intend to continue.