Greetings Earthlings.
I was just looking at the the amount of people that have looked at my work over the time I've been here on DA. Over two thousand views. Pretty amazing for a pile of half-arsed art. Not many hits compared to other people's pages I'm sure, but I appreciate every single one of those views. I thank you, one and all.
It's funny, every year there are people out there who say that comics are dying. If you go back into the mists of the early seventies, they were wailing and knashing their teeth, "The comics are doomed, DOOMED, I tell ye!" I recently read an editorial in a comic from the early 90s, where they said that the industry wasn't like it used to be, "Yes, it's doomed, I tell ya-DOOOMED!" And yet. They are still here. Yes, things have changed. People blame video games, DVDs and the internet and yet, comics are still here. I wonder why? I go into my local comic shop and there, in the corner is a line of freshly produced photocopied fanzines. Hardly anyone will buy them and yet the people who created them still put pen/pencil/stylus to paper/tablet. What drives people to produce comics I wonder? Why draw panels and speech balloons? Modern hieroglyphics if you will? Why strive to have a career in a 'dying' industry?
What drives you?