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These are the comic books that helped me become a comic book fan and helped me realize I wanna make a comic book someday.
#comicsDNA
💛Here's my #comicsdna💛
1/ Nakayoshi serial, where I read Sailormoon, Magic Knights Rayearth, Card Captor Sakura, & many others
2/ LOVELESS, informed much of my style
3/ Weekly Shonen JUMP, got me addicted to Naruto & BLEACH
4/ Tenchi Muyo!, such gorgeous designs & stylization
So I love storytelling, and I love comics, but I've never really had the opportunity to really delve deep into a long form story until recently.
I'm working on one right now with a fantastic artist, and I can't wait to share it with you all
Here's what it's #comicsDNA looks like.
#comicsDNA 💕 here’s some big formative moments for me
1) first manga love, late 90s
2) intro to western comics, early 00s
3) first time i saw someone who looked like me in a comic (changed how i thought about the medium), 2006
4) first webcomic love, opened a whole new world!
My #comicsDNA can be summed up in two syllables: Nineties. I didn't have access to a comic book shop growing up. So I had random issues of random stories. But hell if I didn't read these issues over and over and over again. #comics
Your boy’s #comicsDNA:
Watterson for the imagination and heart
Romita Jr. for the storytelling Moebius for the sense of line and color
McCay for the wonder
(Clearly, I like to set impossibly high bars for myself to reach).
P Much Current: String Theory is my favorite web comic https://t.co/XckgRlJgKA go read it. Redline, Satoshi Kon, and other anime spectacles challenge my visual vocab, the 6 issue run of Prez is something I still think about to this day. #comicsDNA
Mythics with @BethVarni and myself, Adobe Kroger with @molly_beans, @leandroNR, and @eric_weathers, and Changeling with @Brett1106, @VCampan, and @ThatCraftyFoxy.
Building the #Mythoverse is in our #comicsDNA!
#comicsdna If I had to peg down the four most influential books to my style, it'd be these four. First I wanted to illustrate like Yas, then I wanted to mimic Pope's flowing brush lines, then Terada's brilliant linework. The Taschen Manga book exposed me to everything else.
@alex_segura The first comic I remember owning. The one that got me hooked. One that was important to me, and one I just love. #comicsdna
Trying to remember back what first formed my #comicsDNA took a bit.
1. Jubilee/Spidey Anti-bullying comic was my first comic book I ever got
2&3. Sana Takeda’s art and Cassandra Cain’s story got me back into comics
4. “Seconds” is too precious.
Thnx @alex_segura for starting this
📚My #comicsDNA. Pretty sure if you cut me open, this is what you would see.
1-First comic ever 2-Comic that hooked me 3-Extremely influential Comic 4-Extremely influential Comic
#ComicsDNA 1. First comic ever 2. Comic that hooked me for life 3. Extremely influential Comic 4. Another extremely influential Comic
And then the #comicsDNA that inspired me to make comics.
So much old school Top Shelf.
I’ve been watching the #comicsDNA hashtag today and it’s been fun seeing creators talk about their influences. Here are 4 of mine. X-Men 174 was my gateway comic, the one that hooked me. The others shown here were huge influences on my path to being a comic book writer/artist.