Nib & Ink Fest returns May 1st, 2026!
In the meantime, you can watch replays of NIF 2025 events at the Cartoonist Cooperative’s YouTube channel.
“Just start making your comic”, with steps!
So you asked your favorite comic artist how to start making a comic, and they told you “just start”. Now what? Take my hand, we’re going to take this excellent piece of advice one step further.
I’ll show you a step-by-step practice for how to start your comic and build your sequential art skills, as well as habits to keep your comic going. You will leave this panel knowing how to get past over-thinking and self-doubting, and just start!
This panel is for comic beginners and anyone stuck on starting a new comic.
We will not be covering *how* to write a comic–folks interested in this panel are encouraged to have a story in mind already!