"nateomedia @scottsaavedra is running an experiment to see if he can support his family making web comics. Follow his progress here: http://bit.ly/Lyd7l" - Recent Twitter post
"What's the difference between a comic book writer and a pizza?" "A pizza feeds a family of four." - Bah-boom! I apologize if I'm misquoting this joke by Mark Evanier but I think I've got it mainly right.
I believe that people who create -- who make things (comics, music, whatever) -- have value and should be valued but I have no illusions that life is always fair. I'm very skeptical about the likelihood of my being able to make a significant living from web cartooning so, no, I don't expect to entirely support my family on web cartooning. I am simply curious -- and very motivated -- to see what is possible and to try to find a way to make web cartooning as viable as possible for me. And I'm willing to share my mistakes and stumbles and general discoveries along the way because I think it's interesting and I think that others might find it interesting too. As always conversation on this topic (or any topic related to web comics) is welcome.
Related link (from earlier this year): Phil Foglio shares some web comic numbers.
3 comments:
Saying anything intelligent in 140 characters is a struggle.
I'm struggling to be coherent at many times that that length. I wasn't trying to pick on you or anything like that. I just saw the twitter post as an opportunity to clarify my intentions and goals. I suspect I will have to do this a lot.
Oh, don't worry about it. I wasn't offended. I remember typing that into Twitter and having to delete word after word after word, trying to get that little red negative number to go away.
I just thought there was some humorous irony to my response, that's all.
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