Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 10/02/2025If I have any advice for making comics it’s this: Sure your comic might be bad, but no one can make that bad comic in quite the same way you can, so you should still do it. 191175309
mrtoads.bsky.social @mrtoads.bsky.social · 11/02/2025One of my favorite comics (now, alas, gone) was very much what many of us might call “bad”. I loved every crudely-drawn, offensive-joked panel of it, and bought two copies of the poorly-bound paperback collection. “Bad” is extremely relative. 120
Andy P @a-n-d-y.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Sometimes your bad is someone else's really really good. Not making your comic is kink shaming 070
Morgue @handle.invalid · 10/02/2025this is!! the hardest lesson to learn!!!! I waited so long because mine weren't where I wanted them to be. The medium's roots have always been making work that tells some type of truth. It's still a bit like being naked in front of a crowd but the imperfection is what makes it you. 020
Everyone's Favourite Brit. @mrpolonog.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Do you know how difficult it is to not say "this is how *problematic creator X* makes comics"? 000
indi @indik.bsky.social · 10/02/2025The only problem I have with your comics is that Punchy has but two claws with which to punch. 020
Plumy - 11 av de Broadgay @ Ycon @plumy.bsky.social · 11/02/2025This is weirdly comforting thanks 000
ishaway • wiw wiw @ishaway.bsky.social · 10/02/2025… I really needed to read this today. Thank you. -back to scribbling- 020
Anon @anon762.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Mœbius didn’t start out great, Otomo didn’t start out great, no one does 020
wombatarama.bsky.social @wombatarama.bsky.social · 10/02/2025this is like what I tell people who want to write a book: sure your book might be bad, but lots of bad books get published, so why not yours too? 0141
Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 10/02/2025so I should try drawing my own even though my art skills cannot be seen with an electron microscope 320
🇵🇸 Hugo Y Yo @hugoyyo.eurosky.social · 10/02/2025This is THE right advice for every creative endeavour. Do it. Finish it. Fail. Start another one. Fail some more. Keep doing it. Get good, or don't. Who cares. Do it until you want to do something else. Then do that. 010
Tim Eldred @timeldred.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Adding: you only learn to make good comics by making a few bad ones first. There are 10,000 bad drawings in you. The sooner you get to work, the sooner you will get rid of them. 030
Kalyandra @kalyandra.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Every comic I still read today are all decades old and when they began they were terrible. The point is to keep making it and your fans will follow you. 010
