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Pens
You can either use regular ballpoint or felt tip pens, or classic calligraphy pens with interchangeable nibs (pen tips). Some good choices are:
Micron
Rapidograph
Speedball Calligraphy pens and nibs
Brushes
Sumi bamboo brushes
Any brand of thin paint brush, either sable or synthetic hair
Inks
It's important to use waterproof ink if you are adding color with watercolor or paints. Besides that, waterproof inks just help the drawings last longer. Some examples are:
India Ink
Sumi Ink
Deleter Ink
Paper
Comics are usually drawn on thicker-than-paper "boards" with one page drawn on each board. Typically, good quality archival paper is used so that the original artwork can be preserved; especially if it will be handled many times as it is passed from the penciller to the inker to the printer, etc. Some artists will simply draw an entire comic in a sketchbook. Some good paper brands are:
Bristol
Strathmore
Canson
Blue Line Pro
Computer software
These are graphics programs you can put on your computer to digitally draw, color and layout your comics:
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Streamline
Adobe InDesign
Macromedia Flash
Quark Xpress (for print comics only)
Pagemaker (for print comics only)
Computer hardware
These are extra tools (we call them toys!) to use along with your computer:
Wacom Pen and Tablet is a tool that looks like a pen and a board. You can draw on the board with the pen, and the drawing shows up digitally on your computer.
A scanner converts all your drawn material into digital material so it can be edited on the computer.
Digital camera or camcorder
Misc.
Erasers--such as Pink Pearl, kneaded erasers, Art Gum, and white Magic Rub
Lightbox--some artists trace their drawings on a lightbox to make sure that certain parts of each frame look exactly the same
