28 Heroic Comics With A Funny Twist That I Created

Like many, when I was a kid in elementary school, my friends and I would make dumb stories together and I’d turn them into comics. The first comic I remember making was called “Crapo and his pet fly,” so you know, very high-brow stuff! I loved making comic strips, xeroxing twenty copies, and handing them out to our classmates. I kept doing this all the way up through college, after which I started posting them online. I’ve been sharing my comic strips online since 2010!

Drawing a comic strip doesn’t take very long- my art style is generally simple, so it usually only takes an hour or so to digitally sketch and ink and color. But! Writing a funny comic strip can be quite time-consuming. Sometimes inspiration strikes and it’s almost like the strip writes itself, but most of the time it takes an hour or two of mulling over a bad idea to make it any good. Sometimes there are no ideas for a comic strip at all; that’s usually a good sign that I probably shouldn’t make a comic strip at that moment. Time is the best editor for sure!

I always used to feel the need to base my comics on some aspect of my real life. After college, I made journal comics that would tell bite-sized stories framed in a funny way about real stuff that happened to me, or I’d write sarcastic strips that were a commentary on stuff I’d see going on around me, but everything I wrote always had its genesis in me. The problem with that (and it sounds dramatic but sticks with me) is that I felt like my life had become a mine and I was constantly digging around in the dirt for content that would make for a good comic. The way I got over that and found joy in making comics again was by leaning into making fictitious comic strips, of which these comics are a great example!