User blog comment:Strife237/Mother 3 & Knuckles 21/@comment-4085751-20130322223025/@comment-26113388-20130324004913

I usually start out by opening an MS Paint window. I widen the canvas as wide as it'll go, but making sure that it isn't too wide and every part of the comic can be seen and worked on at once (i.e, no sliding bars at the side or at the botton)

A quick border line is easy to make. Select the Rectangle tool, place it in the top left corner and drag it to the bottom left corner (usually the thickest line is best). Then I divide it into four panels. They don't have to all be the same size. Just close enough, no one ever notices. My comics never have even panels. Just divide down and across the center.

Next come the backgrounds. You can get backgrounds from Spriters Resource or the Background HQ. Copy and paste the background to the panel and enlarge it so it fills the panel. Do this by dragging the edge of the select box that appears after pasting an image.

Once you've filled the four panels, it's time for sprites. You can get sprite sheets of characters from the Mystical Forest Zone or Spriters Resource. Use the Select tool to copy and paste the sprite you want into the comic. You may have to resize the sprite so it is in proportion with the background (I usually give em 200% vertical and 200% horizontal) An important thing is that you make your sprites transparent when you paste them. Do this by clicking the lower of the two select options (they are below the Ellipse and Rounded Rectangle tools)

Once you have done that, it's time for the easy part - layin' down the speech bubbles. You can download speech bubbles or make em yourself. They are easy to make, just make an ellipse, make two diagonal lines come out of it and erase the bit of the ellipse you don't need. Make sure your bubbles aren't white, but a slightly darker shade of white, otherwise they will become transparent as you paste them. This is easy to do, just go into Color >> Edit colors >> Define custom colors. Have white set as a color before you do this.

When you lay down the speech bubbles, it's time to fill in the text. Select the text tool, drag it across the bubble and start typing. Cool fonts and an appropriate size can help. If a speaking character is off-screen, make the font the color of the character so the readers can know it's them.

After you have the speech bubbles filled in, the comic is finished! Save it as a PNG file (JPG always turns out blurry) and then upload it to the wiki. Post it on your blog and play the waiting game!

If you need anything else, just tell me.