Comics Training: The Ultimate Self-Teaching Challenge

No ones going to sit your down and teach you how to draw a comic book. You can read books and tutorials, but unless you attend the Joe Kubert school, that's about as far as you're going to go in terms of knowledge. With animation you might get a bit more lucky, as there's plenty of stuff and people out there to teach you about drawing animation. Not so with drawing comics and manga. If you know other people who draw comics also, consider yourself one of the lucky ones, as most independent comics drawing is a solo venture. 

What you produce here and now, on the spot is the best of what you can do ever, PERIOD!

For how you draw here and now, this minute, this moment is the basis your foundation will be built upon. The only real way to learn is by getting your hands dirty and doing. Only after you've dug the ditch will you truly know what it's like to have mastered digging ditches (i.e. finishing comics).

Drawing comics, if I'm going by my personal experience, it doesn't get any easier (you still have to force yourself to develop habits for it and train to do it), but you do get better at it. 

Unless you're really good at and have a really high aptitude for teaching yourself things, The first 100 to 200 pages of comics are going to be brutal. Brutally bad. They most likely won't go anywhere and won't look good in any way. And this is made even worse if you came up or are coming up from the Boondocks like I did and have where you live in and were raised in a noisy, unpredictable, un-supportive, and openly hostile environment that mostly isn't even conducive of creativity (i.e. pretty much anywhere that's not France, Tokyo, and L.A.). But struggle and self expression can make pretty good bedfellows, so don't give up on making comics just because the people around you don't support you in any way. Part of what makes good art is the war and the struggle that goes on behind it in the background. What matters is the final illusion, not what's surrounding you and your environment right now. The vision in your head trumps your visualization of your current reality any day. Because reality sucks ass and fantasy rules.