I'm a huuuuge supporter of the webcomics industry and I've been reading various webcomics for more than ten years. Over that period I've seen a lot of great comics come and go and so these days I try to show a lot of support for the ones I like.
By night I'm a freelance writer. I would very much like to make that known, because I know a lot of artists need help with their writing for their comics. Many of the best comics have well-known writer-artist teams, why not form your own?
I do hang out at my local comic shop. I do openly criticize the executives at Marvel and I do often point out that DC heroes pull way too many punches.
When I was in school and we wrote scripts for classes, everyone else wrote emo tales of suicide or relationship drama. I wrote about an intergalactic political feud wherein super-beings routinely blew up planets for no good reason. Somehow, my script passed.
Since then, many people have told me that I should adapt my short stories to comics or that I should draw, but despite many years of art classes I cannot draw anything recognizeable. My mind's eye is too ephemeral in nature.
I do believe that if a webcomic creator has a drive to succeed then that person can make a profit from their hobby and turn it into a career. There are many webcomic writers and artists who have taken that path. Fledgling webcomickers may complain that there's not much money in the industry but it has been proven that the more the webcomics industry tries, the more it succeeds. Entire floors in comic conventions devoted to webcomics only - ads all over the interwebs devoted to silly gamer webcomics with vaguely referenced punchlines - webcomic collections appearing on shelves in libraries... if you have the talent, go for it. DD is here for you.
