You draw a comic at least three times. Thumbnails to plan the panel layout and page count, sketches for writing, planning & text placement, inking. Then if you're nasty you can do the extra step of coloring/shading. (This is unless you're French and go straight to inks, the French are not real)
Jess Finkππ
What's something that experts/practitioners in your field universally agree upon, but that remains a "hot take" among the general public?