There have been wealthy artists who could support their families and living without worries about future income. So it is possible.
To get paid for all your work? That would have been great. Heck, to get paid for half your work, would have been fantastic. But no one is guaranteed a fee when you create something free-lance. You take the risk, if you´re good enough, or lucky enough, you pull it off.
Sometimes I feel that I should have chosen a safer path. Become a librarian or an archeologist, and have free time to just enjoying other peoples art, to go to theatre plays, concerts, cinemas and exhibitions, reading stacks of comics and books, listening to the music of the world.
It would have been a so much easier life, I think.
I have children to take care of. My two boys are nearly grown up, they are so beautiful and alive, dating girls, playing games, eating, having fun, planning their future. My other children, the comics I have made, has gone into books, but don´t seem to sell well. I can blame the financial crisis, the tough competition of other good comics, that Norway is a small country, etc. etc.
Nobody wants to dissect their children. I am kind of blind to their faults, I think ... I just love them.
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i saw Felina over on Webcomics Nation it was good, a throw back to those kind of Carl Barks Donald Duck cartoons i used to read.
Thank you, friend! I, too, grew up with Carl Barks. His tales is the inspiration behind Felina!
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