Nobody knows the life of the working comic.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The comics work is very slow, and it basically involves working for sometimes years in isolation and not knowing how the work is going to be received.
By and large, I think that comics work seriously hard. Many have other jobs as well, plus you never really switch off, so you're always working.
Comics creators are generally screwed in life: Most of us who are fortunate enough to do comics full time - which is very few of us - will literally draw until we die because we have no employment structures intact for retirement, much less insurance!
There aren't any concrete steps to becoming a comic.
We can't really make a living doing comic books, despite the fact that would be an awfully fun way to make a living.
I was never really a comic-book fanatic.
I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
The comic book world is a tough business.
Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book.
I had never seen a Marvel comic.