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What drives you to do your comic? What makes you want to continue it even if the feedback you get is slim to nil?

For me there are several driving forces.

For one it's my dream and goal to become a world famous cartoonist with everything from toys to television shows or movies, CCGs and art books. I want to be remembered and known for my work and to leave my mark in the annals of cartooning history even if my mark is more of a light scratch.

To be blunt; I want acknowledgement that the effort I put into my work will be eventually returned to me.

That ties in to my second driving force - I'm just a very ego-centric person. I like attention, be it positive or negative, and fortunately enough doing a comic gives me back positive attention from fans. I'm very aware of the relationship formed between author and fan and I do all in my power to give my fans the best that I can do (The key reason why I stopped the old White Hydra and rewrote it). I try to remember that even though the author makes the comic the fans make the author, so I do my best to respond to everyone who e-mails me or posts on my forum to acknowledge a supportive audience.

Similarly, like many people, I want to impress my parents. My father, despite our differences, is the biggest supporter of anything I do in my life and I want to validate his support by creating the best comic I can. At the same time my mother, although a very artistic person, has constantly challenged me in that she doesn't believe a cartoonist is a valid career choice, so by putting my best foot forward in my comic I hope one day to answer her challenges with a resounding "YES, I DO have a valid career as a cartoonist"

Once again, I reiterate, what drives you?

I just want to finish something for ONCE IN MY BLOODY LIFE. AAARGH! GAH! GRRRGH! AJDJHDWFHUWJSFNWKJFn.

Guildmaster Van wrote:For one it's my dream and goal to become a world famous cartoonist with everything from toys to television shows or movies, CCGs and art books. I want to be remembered and known for my work and to leave my mark in the annals of cartooning history even if my mark is more of a light scratch.

Thats pretty much everything that drives me in a nutshell.

I like to entertain people, and I'm happiest when I make people laugh, so that's one reason.

Although a more selfish reason is that I'd like to be someone important someday, at least artistically or pop-culturally.

It's also good practice for animation.

To become a world famous novelist and work for DC Comics.

Plain and simple.

I want to be able to reach out to people through my writing, and visual storytelling is one of the methods through which I want to achieve that.

There's so much more to it than that, but it's hard to put it into words. For me, it's a very big step to venture my comic into the public arena. It's an emotional investment, but also very important. The feedback I get from it (though scarce) spurs me on.

Um . . . I just kinda rambled for a while there. Haha. I'm tired . . .

I'd like to do something in webcomics that hasn't been done before.

Having a mostly herm furry cast that's blatantly sci-fi helps.

STrRedWolf wrote:I'd like to do something in webcomics that hasn't been done before.

Having a mostly herm furry cast that's blatantly sci-fi helps.

*Runs to view StrRedWolf's comic.*

Linkara wrote:

STrRedWolf wrote:I'd like to do something in webcomics that hasn't been done before.

Having a mostly herm furry cast that's blatantly sci-fi helps.

*Runs to view StrRedWolf's comic.*

I think you're the first person that has run TO the comic when Red explained what it was about.

It all started over a stupid college newspaper that said there were three types of nuclear bombs - Neutron, Proton, and Electron.

*shudder*

I'll answer any science question but what drives me is when someone asks a genuine question, and really is anticipating an answer. It feels good to be able to give one.

KittyKatBlack wrote:

Linkara wrote:

STrRedWolf wrote:I'd like to do something in webcomics that hasn't been done before.

Having a mostly herm furry cast that's blatantly sci-fi helps.

*Runs to view StrRedWolf's comic.*

I think you're the first person that has run TO the comic when Red explained what it was about.

I have odd fetishes.

rkolter wrote:It all started over a stupid college newspaper that said there were three types of nuclear bombs - Neutron, Proton, and Electron.

*shudder*

And people wonder why California instituted an exit exam...

Poor dopes. They forgot about Tetryon bombs.

Oh, and they also forgot it's nucular.

KittyKatBlack wrote:

Linkara wrote:

STrRedWolf wrote:I'd like to do something in webcomics that hasn't been done before.

Having a mostly herm furry cast that's blatantly sci-fi helps.

*Runs to view StrRedWolf's comic.*

I think you're the first person that has run TO the comic when Red explained what it was about.

Well, although an uncommon thing to say the least, Kelly is one of the pioneers of the multifur. And common fodder for VCL Horrors :p

Oh, I wasn't implying that anything was wrong with Kelly's comic. It was more or less the fact that I've never seen that reaction to it before.

KittyKatBlack wrote:

rkolter wrote:It all started over a stupid college newspaper that said there were three types of nuclear bombs - Neutron, Proton, and Electron.

*shudder*

And people wonder why California instituted an exit exam...

I stopped wondering why they instituted the exit exams when one of my classmates told the teacher she didn't know who Albert Einstein was.

Its therapy. Not a doubt in my mind, therapy.

US school system's got it all backwards.

our high schools ought to have entrance exams, not exit exams.

Cope wrote:I just want to finish something for ONCE IN MY BLOODY LIFE. AAARGH! GAH! GRRRGH! AJDJHDWFHUWJSFNWKJFn.

That's my goal in its simplest form.

Whew, that's quite a tangent.

I produce my comic on the basis that:
1. It gives me something to do with all the doodles and ideas I have.
2. It helps me to focus and work with a deadline.
3. I operate with the fond hope that someone will stumble across my comic and go, "Hey, that's kinda funny," or "Hey, I've felt like that before." Touch a life or some such nonsense.
4. The distant possibility that this may be a career for me, no matter how unlikely.