Real Expectations

After entering a local Sunday comic contest and having a web-comic, I still realize the most likely outcome of this comic endeavor. I will remain a struggling artist. If I won the newspaper contest, that would have exposed me to a huge crowd. Alas, it did not happen. I didn’t make the semifinals either. They had over 80 entries just in my city alone. That means there are 80 people just like me here in town. Obviously, my little web-comic is one itty-bitty page in a sea of thousands of online artists. It’s like finding a tan piece of straw in a hay stack – everything looks alike.

We (I assume most of the other artists) all share the hope of our comics being popular and liked. Just like in real life, you should be happy with the friends you do have and not worry about being popular. To date, my gamer friends enjoyed the comics and my family thinks they’re fun. Will I ever make it to that list of top 20 successful web-comic artists? I don’t know. I do know that I’m having fun doing it and I have my own comic strip. That’s a childhood dream and has come true.

Besides, I really, really want to have issue 300 just like Cerebus and all those other old comics. That would be so cool. (No, just making issue 300 hundred without the 299 issues is not cool. Ya need the back stories and ‘see issue 127’ comments.)