Some days you wake up, and just don't feel like you have the drive in you any more.
I've been in a little bit of a comics funk of late - hoping that I've learned some lessons along the way, but wondering if maybe I'm not cut out for all this.
Personal life has been really testing me, and time has once again become an idea, a thing which other people have, but which I only hear about in passing.
The seeming demise of ICGeeks has made me wonder, once more about the viability of what I am making - getting these books into stores now seems less and less likely.
The idea of conventions has started to feel me with dread, rather than excitement.
News from the world of comics has left me wondering if it is even a world worth fighting for.
So many questions, and so much self-doubt.
4 comments:
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill (maybe)
I don't think it's smart to put much stock in comic's alone as a good business plan. Success I think is just being able to work in comics some way some how regardless of wether or not it's a sustaining income. Our only hope is to keep leaning into it until something breaks out.
But it seems to me that it's combination with other elements is where any real business opportunity for the medium is. Finding the right combination is a journey that takes a lot of testing.
As a writer though I think you have a little more opportunity because it's easier to execute more than one or two properties at a time in your standard monthly issue. The hard part is getting the support from artists to push out the work I would think.
It's a tough road and those who have successful titles have a hard time as well finding good income from it. But when these doupts come to me I always think... Can I really imagine myself not making comics? the answer is no... I just can't stop trying. If I gave it up I'd probably just pick it back up tomarrow. Creators need to create!
I know that feeling. Seems like even the best have to struggle to make it and keep it in comics.
All I can say is I wish us both luck ;-)
In the same boat right now... the demise of ICG really threw my debut comic release date for a spin, and still trying to recover (and find a new printer).
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