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How to start a webcomicMaking a Web Comic Part I: Finding a Story

The first and most important thing to start a web comic is to have a story. You could be the best artist on the West side of France, but it won't make a difference if your story sucks. People are grabbed first by good art and second by a good story. Art can only go so far; it is the story that will keep your readers reading. One fine example of this is Fox Tails by Fallon Willard. The art is lacking in quality, but the story is fantastic. This first part of "Making a Web Comic" covers the key elements of finding a story.

So, you know you want to do a web comic, but you're lacking

Making a Web Comic Part II

Making a Web Comic Part II: Paneling

The second most important part of a webcomic (or any comic for that matter) is paneling. This sounds simple, but really, it’s not. When considering a Panel layout you should consider what is happening in that Scene.

Is this an introduction, a love scene, or an action scene? These seem to be the most common types of scenes (in my opinion). The introduction scene generally builds up the story. Not all introduction scenes are introducing someone, they are mostly just informative and help to further the plot. Here is an example link

Introduction Scenes have a tendancy to be boxy, and form fittin

The power love of a vampireIn this story Sonic the hedgehog is the ruler of the vampires, they loved to kill for blood but there was hunters and sonic's friends were hunters, well some but then he heard of someone called Shadow the hedgehog, the one he seems intersted in now.

Sonic was watching in a crystal ball Shadow and Knuckles with another echidna fighting 6 vampires.

Echinda: Hmmm these guys are stronger than last time...

Shadow jumped beside the purple echidna.

Shadow: Someone scared? *grins and gets punched by the echidna*

Echidna: No and someone needs to learn to shut up -_-

Shadow: Hahahaha

Knuckles: ALITTLE HELP!! *gets jumped by a vampire* AHHHH UGLY

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How to Create a Web Comic

by =ChibiAngel86, May 12, 2006, 5:14:29 PM
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How to Create A Web Comic
By Jennifer Scafide

Note: A web comic is a comic that is posted online.

01. Come up with and idea. You can have as many ideas and you can think of. Just pick the one you like the most and that you think you can work with.

02. Develop your idea. Work on your idea to a point where you can start to write out a story and or plot for you're comic.

03. Create your characters. Think up as much details about them as you can. You know you really messed up when your readers know your characters better than you. You can tweak your characters while you write your script.

04. Start writing a script and get as much done as you can. The script you have done the better. Before you start drawing reread what you have done and fix spelling errors and redo what you think needs to be redone.

05. Decide your comic format and your art style. You can use newspaper comic strip format or comic book multi panel format. The probabilities are endless.

06. Start to draw and get as many pages done as you can. You will understand why shortly. Don't worry about if you can draw or not. Use stick people if you like. When your done scan them and save the pages as a png. Use jpeg. only if you have to because it will pixilated the image and make it look not as nice.

07. Pick when your going to update. You might want start off updating once a week at first and see from there.

08. Choose a web server like http://www.comicgenesis.com/. You can use any server really. Pick one that you can work with and you feel comfortable with.

09. Work on your site until your happy with it.

10. Upload a page or two on to your site. This way new readers wont have only on page to look ay until next update.

11. Now it’s time to promote your site. First email a link of you site to all your friends and tell them to email it to all of theirs. Now that you have that covered, if you read any web comic you can email the creator and see if he or she will do a link trade. A link trade is when they link you and you link them. If you don't read any just pick a few comics at random. You can also ask non web comic sites if they will link you. The more sites that link you the better.

11. Once you have you site all promoted, all you need to worry about is remembering to update. This is where having pre done comics come in handy. Say you get sick or for some reason your unable to draw for a while. If you have pre made comics you wont miss and update. I you your unable to update your self, ask a trusted friend to do it for you. Also don't get cocky and not draw any comics for a while. Try to get one comic done pre week so you will have plenty of back up pages.

12. You might want to create an email address for the site so that fans can write to you. Try to check it often. You don't want it to over flow. I'm warning you, you might get as much hate mail as fan, so don't get to mad if someone complains to you about a missed an update.

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How to Create a Web Comicby =ChibiAngel86

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I made this for my Effective Speaking class. We had to give a speech on how to do something and I chose "How to Create and Maintain a Web Comic." These are just some guidelines that I made based of my own experience. The way I say to how to create and maintain a web comic maybe different from how some one else would tell you, but like I said, this is based off of my own experience. If you have any questions leave a comment or note me. ^_^

I made a kind of an update to this. You can find that at How to Create a Webcomic Class.

The image that I used for the preview image is from: Elouai Girl Candybar Doll Maker 2.