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r/webcomics • … • u/MathematicianOverall

I made a Ninja webcomic 12 years ago.

Hello my name is Kevin and I used to enjoy drawing as a kid. Usually it was silly doodles or random art but I had a good time brainstorming letting the line become something abstract. Some were serious art I thought could make good enough for a career one day.

In elementary school I was called the art kid or the "artist". I was used in group projects during class because I knew how to draw and it bothered me a ton. My peers wouldn't remember my name but knew I could help with designing or planning.

As a kid my passion for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Ghostbusters felt as if it was seeping out my pores. I was asked to draw Ninja Turtles from my class peers often and they'd just watch me draw it for them. As I grew older the attention I received was fading away but I was still the artist to a lot of classmates.

When I was a late teenager I met my neighbor down the street from me and I discovered he too liked videogames and anything nerdy. We hit it off quickly and my brother would get jealous because it was "his friend" and not mine. Eventually that neighbor kid discovered I knew how to draw. He'd ask me to draw this or that and I sort of didn't want to but did a quick sketch to shut him up. My brother really hated it when he'd ask me to draw something but eventually I started to enjoy it when he ask to draw something for him.

Finally getting to my point of my post here I promise!

Fast forward to 5+ years and I joked a lot about making a comic with my friend (not my neighbor anymore at this point as he moved away). His idea was a Ninja comic. My friend and I joked about Ninjas a lot. He even made YouTube videos of himself running through public places dressed as a Ninja and watching their reactions.

We eventually landed the comic name Incognito. I researched a ton and found another if not many comics called Incognito so I pitched the subtitle Enter the Ninja to call back my friends YouTube videos. He loved it and we went flying with ideas and designing the characters and plot.

We started making the comic on an app for webcomics and really enjoyed the process of drawing and writing up each page. The process from planning to final form was a blast.

So because of life, getting married and having children, work, life in general, it just stopped. I miss making Incognito: Enter the Ninja and hope 2025 will be the year to make the comic again.

Here's the link to Incognito Enter the Ninja https://m.tapas.io/series/Incognito-Enter-the-Ninja/info/

Please let me know if it's worth reviving the comic!

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