Creating Your Own Internet Comic Strip

Step 4: Writing Your Comic.

Now that you've got your characters fleshed out, it's time to actually start writing the comic. Many different artists have different approaches to writing their strips, and perhaps one technique that works for you may not work for somebody else. Let's take a look at two of the most popular gaming Internet comic strips and contrast how their authors approach writing:

"Penny Arcade" - Gabe and Tycho think of something humorous in the gaming industry and proceed to write something which pokes fun at it.

"User Friendly" - After putting on a blindfold and drinking heavily, Illiad begins to receive the alien psychic gamma rays being broadcast into his head, which he promptly begins to fill in the little word balloons with. Scientists believe that these mind control signals are actually just composed of one message looped infinitely, which explains why Illiad has essentially been writing the same joke over and over ever since he first started the comic. Fortunately, most of his readers don't notice this because they're too busy using Linux or destroying copies of Windows whatever the hell they spend all day doing.