Most Kids wanted to be Rock stars, Race Car drivers I wanted to be a Comic Book Artist!

I have wanted to draw comics my entire life (Almost) when I was a kid My room was littered with poorly drawn comic they would have silly names like Mega Force (An anthro based Super Hero team), Hot Fox (Not a girl but a Fox with fire based powers), Rocket raccoon (A raccoon with rocket....well you get the idea) Wolf Worx (A Wolf with a golden Armor) etc etc etc...

When I was a kid making comics was my dream, my Heroes weren't rock stars they were comic artists like Jim Lee, Rob Lefeild, Stan Lee, Walt Disney, Masamune Shiro.

As I have grown up comics have become Harder and Harder to get going and Yah I have been able to sneak in drawing them here and there.

I have proven I can draw comics, but there are many things that make them hard and quite simply add to my depression when I think about it.

The First thing is writing... Yah a comics can't just be drawn it has to be written first and that goes a LOT farther than just making up a plot.

So when I try to draw a comic I TRY and think should I throw something together or do something I have made up that will take a lot of time to develop.

You have to design characters create relationships with characters develop characters make up and design the whole world the characters might interact with create a believable conflict and villains that not only make for cool fights but are believable and all this has to fit in to a nice little package with a beginning middle and end.

The designing stage, you have to design everything about the world the comic takes place in, cars weapons houses even the clothes the characters wear are all YOUR responsibility! This all has to not only be cool but LOOK cool.

To make this stage Harder, you have to know what thing you need Look like, you can't have a good Sci Fi comic if you can't design a spaceship, you can't have a cool western of you can't draw a Horse or a revolver, leather jacket, or desert scene, or a Postapockaliptic world if you can't draw and make up designs for Dune buggies Armors wrecked car and building that have been destroyed.

And ALL THAT is before a SINGLE BIT OF LEAD REACHES PAPER!

Then once you have ALL THAT worked out it's time to start drawing, not the last time I tried to draw a comic I was able to get roughly a page done in 6 or more hours.

Consider the last comic pages I did were in black and white I can assume that color would take anywhere from 8 to 10 hours to do.

Throw in Jobs friends people who live with parents, transportation to said job whatever chores must be done.

Now I have learned a lot about the comic industry since I was a kid and I have learned that the HIGHEST paid comic artist I have spoken to earned 20 bucks a page...

And since there are no companies that just GIVE you a whole title you have to start in anthology magazines that MIGH get you 5 pages a month so SUPPOSING you get into a high paying book that MAYBE 100 bucks a month

So I'm sorry I seem so emo about art sometimes but it's hard when the one thing I've wanted to do my entire like is so hard just to get started!