you can't gatekeep comics

I've been working very hard to get a pitch doc ready in time for something (not this image below, that's just my webcomic). As a fulltime solo parent, I can't afford to abandon my baby in order to focus on art, I have to balance my life. I am typing this one handed right now, and it all drives me a bit batty.

Also, to get to the topic of this post: you can't gatekeep comics.

Being someone whose been unwell for half a decade, I haven't had the bravery to attempt comics. Until I have experienced something big. It's big to me. 

So I have started trying to get my stories out there in webcomic form (this image below) once a week on Sundays ACST time, but am also applying for heaps of literary and comic themed opportunities, as I've just said. 

Comics aren't about how long your webcomic has been going for, I see too many people plodding along with no substance and not very thought-out pages. And as for me? Well, I've stared at Berserk on a daily basis for the last half a decade, no doubt, people think this hasn't helped me. But surprise surprise, it has totally helped me. As not only do I read comics a lot, but I have worshipped the best of the best for a very long time: Berserk. That counts, a lot.

To be quite blunt, seeing as everyone has always parroted how: 'you have to play games to be a good game dev' and 'you have to read to be a good writer', and well given all that rhetoric, you should've ogled Kentaro Miura's Berserk manga every day for the last 5 years if you want to be a comic artist! Don't argue with me on it, bud.

(I'm aware my spelling is wrong in this handwritten speech bubble I always final check my typed words. My quickly scribbled words are always rough.)