Danger Vision: Bad Music Zombies

When I first got into making comics last year, I did a few searches for  someone who may have documented their journey into creating comics (starting out as an ameture) and wasn’t able to find a complete solid article(s) about how someone started out making their comic. Things like how they went about character design, writing their story, and how they chose the comic format that they did . I did find “tutorials” on these separate things, but they would come from all over the place and from different people. What I was looking for was just one person’s journey through their first strip/comic/graphic novel. I’m not saying that absolutely no one has documented their entire process, I’m just saying that I haven’t come across someone who has written up a complete start-to-finish of everything they went though to go from brand-new-ameture to not-so-brand-new-but-still-ameture.

It may or may not be valuable information, but I’ve decided to write a series of articles about my own personal journey through the world of comics. Topics like “Why I decided to tell a story with a comic,” “Character design shortcuts that I used,” and “How this non-writer kind of wrote a story.” And then more technical things like “What type of tablet/programs I’m using to do this,” and “important specs to consider before even starting.”

This is, by no means, a tutorial on how to make a comic, or how to draw, or anything like that. The main thing is that we all start somewhere and end up somewhere else. Even though I’m still a nobody in the wide world of comics, I think that sharing my experiences of my first year in creating comics could serve as another resource for those of you who are interested in telling your own stories through sequential  art.