Here is a math equation for you: Rock Star > Every Job Ever. It’s science, bitch!

Yeah, I’ve been playing a lot of Rock Band lately. Hence the reason why this strip is actually a few hours LATE…. *guilty*

Yes, this is the worst curse I could wish upon someone.

This is very much a pet peeve of mine. Not just ’cause I would like money, but just in terms of rationalization. Most stuff you get in dealer’s room can be bought elsewhere (often for CHEAPER), but fans are insistent about going into the Dealer’s Room before they go to the Artist’s Alley, where they can get stuff they most likely will not be able to find elsewhere.

As you can imagine, I’ve heard this kinda stuff WAY too much. *off of soapbox*

(EDIT: I didn’t realize it before I did this strip, but I may have inadvertently suggested yaoi fans are particularly bad about this. This is not the case. I just drew the Random Fangirls from Bishounen Boys, since they are… Well, random.)

I recently got to see some of Van Gogh’s work when I went to the Met in New York. I was moved to tears by it and there’s not a lot of artists I can say that about.

I’m not NEARLY as naive as this strip suggests. In reality, my mother– while trying to make me feel better about my lack of success– said to me, “Van Gogh only sold two paintings in his lifetime.”

My snarky reply was, “Yeah, but the man died penniless and syphilitic of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Do I REALLY wanna emulate that?”

…Yeah, it’s funnier when I play the fool (hence why my depression rarely makes an appearance in the strip)

Hahaha… It’s funny ’cause it’s true.

For the love of everything good and pure, some of us have vampire fetishes that WELL pre-date Princess Sparklepants.

I’ve never actually beaten anyone who compares The Otherkind to Twilight. But the next time it happens… *shifty eyes*

Hahaha… Had to mark this one with double warnings. I need to stop swearing so loud. And beating people.

For the record, I was actually VERY good at getting inked. I didn’t find it to be that painful… I winced a few times when the needle got close to my underarm, but that was it. Thank you to my fantastic tattoo artist, Su Houston and the great people at North Star Tattoo for making the experience so enjoyable for me and to the wonderful Inky for finally pushing me to do something I’ve wanted for years.

I felt the need to approach these issues in comic form as it can get a bit wearisome to constantly have to do so. I’m sure you can understand why.

A quick wrap up on what’s been going on while I’ve been working on CC Year One. I will be going into more detail on certain colourful events in the near future. Stay tuned!

At the end of SPX 2009, I felt so sad and emo over not making too many sales that I decided the only way I was going to keep my sanity in this business was to mock it mercilessly in comic form. And so I did.

Thus ends “Creator Confidential: The (Almost) Accurate Account of the First Year of an Indie Comic”. Thank you to everyone who has supported me over the past year! You guys have been so great!

Stay tuned next week for this strip to become “Creator Confidential: The (Almost) Accurate Adventures of an Indie Comic Artist”.

This is a very important strip. This is actually the very first Creator Confidential strip I ever wrote. I wrote it AT SPX 2009, in a fit of emo frustration. It was in the writing of this I ended up deciding to go through the entire first year.

This comic came solely out of Kevin, Sarah and I talking about my previous comic about the first meeting between me and them. Sarah and I were debating who clung onto who. And then Kevin chimed in with his opinion. Oh, Kevin… Way to make me feel good about myself.