Stylus on a Wacom Bamboo tablet I got years ago; I don't think they even make that model anymore. My comic process goes thumbnail sketches in an actual sketchbook (to get a feel for the basic flow of the comic), rough sketching in Manga Studio using the pencil tool, inking with the gpen, then colors, shading, and backgrounds. Manga Studio is the most tablet-responsive program I've found; the stuff I do in it actually looks like my pencil stuff. I've always had a problem with line thickness and the like not varying enough in photoshop. The trickiest part of working with a tablet is training yourself to look at the screen while you draw, rather than down like normal.



With the earliest comics, I did used to take a photo of a full-page sketch, then go over each panel with the gpen, but the current method makes for better drawings, IMO.