Making Comics Is Hard (So Why Bother?)

Yeah, making comics sucks sometimes.

So why bother? While everyone is out having a good time – boozing it up and smoking pot and sniffing coke – you're sat on your lardy proverbial, drawing dorky characters in a dimly-lit room with naff '80s hair metal playing on a busted ghetto blaster, while garlic prawns simmer in a bain maree out the back.

Of course, it's a waste of time. No one's gonna read this crap. Comics are for kids, man. Who even reads anymore? None of the 'sophisticated adults' I know would be caught dead reading this junk. Why don't you just go get your qualification to be a dentist, like Aunt Lisa wanted.

Comics? Nothin' to it, I tell ya. Money for old friggin' rope. But like I told ya before, anyone can churn out this stuff if they really want to. With the right presets and page templates, plus a good comic lettering typeface you nicked offa 1001 fonts dot com, you can churn out inconsequential fluff at a rate of a thousand pages a year. No one's going to read it though. Because nobody reads comics.

Ah, but they do. Well, one person actually.

That's right. Only one piddling little insignificant person out there wants to read your comics. That person is but a speck of dust upon a germ upon a pinhead. But to you that person is the be-all and end-all, to use an old biddy's term. That person is your audience. You must get back to your drawing table. Get your flabby arse-cheeks upon that seat. For them!

Because you see –

Even if only one person is reading your comic you still have to do it. Keep on drawing it. If anyone tells you not to bother and give up and get a job putting tools into bags, you can tell that person to 'naff orf'. Just finish that comic. ASAP.

And when you do, send me a copy. I could do with a good laugh.