Did anyone ever make their own comics as a kid?

[Marvelmania]

Around the age of 10-11 I used to make my own comic books. Sometimes I'd use preexisting superheroes and other times I make my own up. I'd draw them adding a story then staple all the pages together. I know they must have looked horrible since I can't draw with a **** but I'd give about anything to have them all back now but they're long gone. Did anyone else do this and make their own comic books?

[Wee67]

I used to fold a piece of paper vertically in half and then divide it into thirds to create six squares to create my comics. I did not use staples, however. I used tape to sloppily try and bind the pages together.

In sixth grade, I created a a character called Super Dorf that actually had a very small readership at school. I would draw it across both sides on piece of notebook paper and "publish" it on Fridays. There were about 8 classmates who'd pressure me to meet my deadline. They would would then pass it between each other. I even created a fan club with membership cards at one point.

[Random Axe]

I started making my own comics around age 8 and I still have them. It so fun to go back and read those. My stories were surprisingly mature and also pretty graphic lol.

[PNGwynne]

I tried but was never good at it. What I really liked, though, was designing characters with costumes and dossiers. I was much better at that, though I cheated a bit with a template, and I puttered with it all through college. It echoed my theatre work, I suppose.

[palitoy]

OMG, I have so many, from kindergarten to college, my superhero writing in high school is horrible, cringe-inducingly bad. You can tell i had zero life experiences, in college, i vacillated between ripping off Drew Friedman to ripping off Peter Bagge. I started and stopped several concepts during that period. Most of them I'm happy i never attempted to publish.

[RonnyG]

I used to love to draw, and make my own comic books, too. I didn't really create my own characters, though, but I made many comic books based on other properties like Bewitched, and The Brady Kids cartoon show. Those were two of my favorite shows growing up. I wasn't really into Superheroes. I was more into Archie, so my stories were mostly humor and fantasy. I saved them all. Occasionally, I'll pull them out and read them, and think to myself, "What was I thinking??" I also think it would be fun to take advantage of today's technology, and scan them, and clean them up, and correct mistakes up by using a paint program.

[Hector]

Yes. All that stuff is in my basement lost amongst the hundreds of storage boxes.

[Bruce Banner]

Yeah, I used to make my own comics as a kid. Always my own characters, super heroes, sci-fi, sword & sorcery, etc. I loved doing that... Sometimes I'd colour them, most times I'd leave them b&w. Sadly, none of that stuff has survived multiple moves and clear-outs over the decades.

[Hedji]

All the time. All. The. Time. Me and my brother had my dad photocopy panel templates for various page formats, and we'd go to town.

More unfinished starts than completed stories, but hey, it was inspiration.

My brother had the "Marvel Try-Out Book", which sadly he never did.

"How to Draw Comics The Marvel Way" was our bible.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Indeed. My friends and I actually made anthology comics. We'd each produce a story and staple it together.

I even drew "covers" of our toy play adventures. After we got done playing, I'd draw a cover of the latest Super Powers, GI Joe, or Transformers adventure.

Chris

[cjefferys]

I tried, but always had a hard time creating comics, I wasn't very good at laying out panels, flow of action, dialogue, etc. On the other hand, I was pretty good at character design, I created tons of heroes and villains (a lot of them admittedly kind of derivative). I still most of my character profile drawings, complete with proper logos for each and everything (I did most of them in the 80's and early 90's when I was in my teens, early twenties). It's funny, I pulled out my stack of old superhero drawings and was showing them to my wife and kids just the other day.

[WannabeMego]

Definitely did this with My Friends as kind of a PenPal thing when they went away for the Summer...We would send One Page (Front & Back) a Week to each other & construct a Comic that way.

Later on, as we got older, we made full comics we would trade to one another that we would sell to others...and as bad as they look today, we actually has some folks buy our books.

Here is a snapshot of My Friend's Book (Realm of Adventure) & Fanzine (Fandom Times) he created:

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The Mike Grell Cover for Issue 2 was a Commission

[Marvelmania]

Wow Tom, that puts the comics I made to shame!!!

[Wee67]

Tomasso, you make me glad I didn't save and post any of my old comics. I can't even call what I did comics next to your stuff!

[Random Axe]

This is a really cool thread, and I think I'll dig up some of my old stuff and scan them. Not sure outside of photobucket how to post here, though. I used to do a couple of pages a week and have my friends read them like a serial. It was done on notebook paper during some classes and study halls.