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.

One of the big thrills of going to SPX was the fact that my favourite webcomic creator was going to be there. As I said previously, I spotted her within a few minutes of getting to the hotel and then I immediately felt like I was over my head. Then, my table turned out to be across from hers.

So I ended up turning into a complete and utter fangirl when I went to her table (even picking up multiple copies of her book, so I had one for me and some for my friends).

While I have not portrayed her in the strip (mostly due to her having an awesome cartoon version already… Sorry Kev, as awesome as I think you look in Mascot, you are reoccurring enough in my life that you NEED a CC version of you), I will now reveal that this Lady of Great Awesome is Erika Moen of DAR! A Super Girly Top Secret Comic Diary fame. At the time of SPX, it was the only webcomic I read regularly and that and Kevin’s I’m My Own Mascot were big influences in me starting my own autobio comic.

I can talk myself out of ANYTHING.

Story by: Clare Moseley
Written by: Clare Moseley and Kevin Bolk
Art by: Kevin Bolk

Story by: Clare Moseley
Written by: Clare Moseley and Kevin Bolk
Art by: Kevin Bolk

Small Press Expo Pt II. This is the landmark first meeting of me and the folks from Interrobang Studios.

Sarah disputes my perspective on things. To quote her: “Are you going to show the bit at the reception where you boldly stride in by yourself and our cluster of friends is huddled around a table snarfing appetizers like they’re a main course, pretending we’re not all people who already know each other and are thus FAILING at ’small press mixer’?”

I still think I probably looked like a deer in headlights. I do remember for a fact one of the first things I said to Sarah was: “The only people I know how to deal with are in CMYK.”

However it actually went down… So far, they haven’t let go. Every con I’ve done South of the 49th has been with Kevin and Sarah and, of course, there was the infamous collaboration of Ensign Sue. I feel very thankful for the friendship I’ve gotten from that Mixer.