I'm Doing It For the Money!

DON'T EVER start a webcomic because you want to make a bunch of money. Your webcomic has to be a pretty decent size in order to make any significant money off of it. Very rarely a webcomic will make what someone would call "A bunch of money", so having that end goal is a little too ambitious.

You should only start a webcomic because you have a passion for it and want to share your art with the internet. In the beginning, you'll have a handful of readers if your lucky. If you keep at it thought and keep producing good comics, good things can and will happen. But when you start, it takes a lot of passion and love to keep you going when there aren't that many eyes seeing your hard work.

Am I Funny Enough For Webcomics?

Before you start designing your site, thinking up an awesome domain name, looking into scanners or telling all your friends that you're gonna have a webcomic, you should probably make sure you're actually funny in some way. Draw up a couple comics for real, no "yea, it will be kinda like this" stuff. Do it like you want to be proud of it. Take that and show it to some friends and get their honest opinions. Don't be offended if they don't find your comics hilarious; they are just trying to help you out. Show it to your siblings, parents, friends parents, anyone that can appreciate humor.

Rules for these first comics:

1. NO inside jokes. Your friends will always find these to be funny, but the internet will not.
2. Avoid MSpaint, unless you can do it well. If you have to, use a brush/pencil thicker than 1 pixel. Please.
   
3. Don't write a joke derived from another source. Come up with something totally unique.
   

If it turns out that you're not very funny in webcomic form, that's ok! Maybe with a little more practice, you can get a feel for the funnies. All up to you.

If you do have the funnies, congratulations! You have passed the first test for starting a webcomic.