Writing Webcomics
If you're looking to get into writing webcomics and are drawn into the world of creating online entertainment generally with your eyes set on the Penny Arcade prize of fame and fortune, let me pop that bubble for you before replacing it with one that's just as good, but more realistic.
Comic writing is hard work, and writing one several times a month, or even once a day, is something that will tax you quite a lot. But it's possible. Whether you're coming up with the week's joke structures (though it doesn't have to be a work of comedy) in between PartyCasino.it or you're jotting down ideas on the train to work, you'll find a slot in which you can create the hard part.
I say the hard part because although good art helps, it's not essential. Happiness and Cyanide, XKCD, and so on - examples of strong, popular webcomics whose humour tend to carry them further than the art does, although the art of both those examples has become iconic as a result of its popularity and the good writing that pushes it forward.
The best way to start is think of the things that really make you laugh, and analyse them. Watch comedies and analyse them too. What makes people chuckle? What makes them identify with your characters? What moves them, or draws them into your story so that one user will give you hit after hit and drive your advertising revenue up to the point where you can do this as a full-time job? These are all valid questions and your writing needs to hit several notes.
One is genre based, so comedy will need to be funny, serious will need to feel serious, and so on. But the rest are standards. Spelling, grammar, continuity - think about the basics of writing a story on paper, and apply them to a comic. A comic is a script with a face, much like TV, film, or theatre. All they need is great words behind them, and their acting can be clunky and still draw in the weekend crowd. So get writing, doodle, and as soon as you can, get it online and start shopping it around Twitter, Facebook and so on. Fame and fortune may not await, but creative satisfaction and critical appreciation just might.