I always used to say I'd never quit comics but I also said I'd never do variant covers and I caved on that one. I'm getting too old to live this marginally, especially when I have a collaborator comicblocking the most profitable project I have going. I'm just tired of all this.
I should have just gotten an agent and tried to do animation stuff full-time when I had the chance. We had better credits than a lot of full-time animation people. But I was fearful and resistant to change. I should have left SLG a decade earlier, but I was loyal and fearful etc.
I should have chased money and stopped pushing my own work bc the 90s are long dead. It's okay for me to live a cartoonist's life, and your partner makes the crazy choice to be there, but your child doesn't. I'm tired of still having to convince people to buy my stuff, 30 yrs in.
I don't make GNs and there's no place for my humor stuff in the direct market. I'm down too deep to become a webcomics artist. I'm a comics writer now, I have no time or reason to work on Dork or anything like that. At least I have Beasts of Burden, working around the co-creator.
KS and Patreon isn't for everyone and/or every situation, btw. I can't drop commitments and add ore on just to make some gag comics. Maybe the time is just over for that side of my career, for a while, at least. Times change, I didn't. Dinosaurs die.
The only things that have really made us solid money have been outside comics. Magazine/book work, illustration, animation writing/design/pitch bibles, and the thing we did this year which we can't discuss yet. But stupid me, I concentrated on comics because that's my heart.
I joke about not ending up like Wally Wood, and yet I go wasting my life on comics. No life, money always a problem, feeling like the pages I ache over get tossed into a well. Then Beasts of Burden is successful -- and the co-creator won't finish a 5-yr old script It's a joke.
I don't think many people understand that when someone throws a project under the bus, It's not just that the book sits. There's a domino effect. No second GN income. No foreign rights income (7 eds), no third and fourth GN. I can't write/get paid. I have to find work.
