It is! How to Start a Comic takes you from zero to your first finished pages of your comic without skipping a step. If you’ve never made comics before then this is a great place to start and to learn about how to come up with ideas, learning how to write a story and how to develop your characters and comic’s world, as well as dipping your toes into making your comic pages. All the while you can ask for advice from your fellow comic creators in the Discord server.

A basic knowledge of drawing is certainly helpful, though I believe everyone can make a comic. We all have to start somewhere, right? This course will not teach you how to draw, but it will give you tips for how to improve your drawing while you’re making your comic. I do think, though, that one of the best ways to get better at drawing is to create comics. As for the writing, the course will certainly help you write your story. And as you will see, you might already be better at writing than you think.

Nope! You can take this course completely at your own pace. And you can come back to it every time you’re making a new comic.

This depends on a few things: how long your comic is going to be, how elaborate it is and how much time you have available. The course itself is 6.5 hours long but the biggest amount of time will be spend on creating your comic. I always advise students to find at least 10-20 minutes every day to work on their comic. Or plan an hour of free time a few times a week to get the work in.

The writing part of the course focuses heavily on creating a story with a beginning, middle and ending. So in that sense it will be harder to apply that to an ongoing gag-a-day strip, for example. (Even though these comics often still have an overarching storyline) But you can still apply the basics of storytelling and character development to these kinds of comics. And the other lessons of the course will also still be valuable to you. But just so you know, the main focus in the writing part of the course is on longer stories that have a definitive ending.

No, this course does not go into promoting your comic, selling your comic to an audience or publisher, or into how to create a website for your webcomic. There will be lessons that require you to think about what your primary goal is for your comic. But the commercial aspect of comics is a subject I might do something with in the future. For now I wanted to focus solely on helping you create a comic.

For sure! This course will help you focus your story and will give you new ideas about what steps might have been missing in your process. And, of course, it comes with a Discord server where you can ask fellow comic artists questions about how to proceed, or where you can get feedback.

Making a comic takes time and effort. Sometimes a LOT of time and effort. I can’t do the work for you. But the beauty of this course is that it will give you clear to-do’s after each lesson that are designed to help you progress through the comic creation process step by step. If anything, you’ll probably get your comic done faster than if you figure out the entire process by yourself. If you’re not entirely sure, try out the course for 14 days and if you feel like it won’t work for you, email me for a refund.

The biggest difference is that How to Start a Comic is a self-study course that will help you develop and create your dream comic project. Your Comic Journey is a 10-week mentored course with live feedback sessions that will guide you from blank page to finished short comic in 10 weeks. This comic can only be a few pages long. The comic you will make with How to Start a Comic can be as long as you want and you can do this course at your own pace.