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I have embarked on a summer(possibly a decade long  >:() project! I am going to try to produce a online comic and I was hoping for any help or advice available. I am considering buying Manga Studio, I have the debut version but it is sadly under-equiped. Anyone with any experience with it,is it worth upgrading? Any resources that someone could link me or know of would also be helpful. Story-boarding is an art in itself  :o God halp me.

I believe DCM uses that program to make a lot of his work these days, you could try asking him directly.

I sent him a note! Thank you. ;)

Comics are not that hard to make. They just take a lot of time. Photoshop and illustrator would work fine for what you are likely to do. Gimp if you can't afford photoshop will work as well. Scrap paper and a ball point pen plus some scissors and tape for the thumbnail layouts. Doodle away on a panel idea until you find what you want to use, cut and past it to a clean sheet. Do this until you have a full page, and then proceed to finished art using the ball pen roughs as your guide. The only things a web cartoonist is likely to run short on is time, energy and ambition. In that department I'm afraid i can not help you.

Good luck with your comic, and be sure to post it here so we all can see the results.

Excellent ideas 10-4 and I think you are 100% correct. Wow ,this is a lot of work! Time and energy are definately gonna be the obstacles. Hopefully stubborn can take up the slack when ambition runs thin. ;D I will definately post it here,I owe so many people at Amazons so much! I am finding the hardest part being deciding when to produce the art. I constantly feel like I should wait until I learn one more thing or read one more book or get a little better. Sometimes I guess getting in the trenches is the best school.

Ps-Thank you DCM for your quick response, what would we do without you ?!

Me too. Sometimes it's best to jump in and see what you can do right now. You can read an art book later if you need to.

If you're after some good examples to look at for help in creating a good comic, check out some of Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo collections. I know it's a black and white comic about a ronin bunny samurai warrior in feudal japan, but when it comes to how to set up pages and panel construction, I think he's one of the best in the business.