Your circular logic has left me a deflated puddle of a man.

When I first started trying to make a living from comics (around 2007) it was the golden age of “PRO BLOGGING!” People could actually quit their jobs and write about their hobbies or lives or whatever because PPC ad rates were through the roof. This blogging boom started a new waves of pro-blogs ABOUT pro-blogging. These people were making a living blogging about how to make a living from blogging. It was the sort of thing that was almost too meta to exist and destined to be a short lived phenomenon. Still, I followed of a few of these people pretty closely to see what knowledge they had and how it might be applied to making a living from comics. At that time especially, online comics people were typically pretty terrible at the business side of things, and even worse at talking about it openly. These pro-blog dudes were super transparent, going as far as to detail exactly how much money they made and where it came from. I learned a lot, but there was always something about the whole ordeal that seemed flakey and douchey to me. I feel pretty safe going out on a limb and saying not one of those bloggers I followed is still blogging about blogging for a living.

My twitter is often a peek into the future of my comics.

It is pretty amazing.

Again, I lost it by the end of the news post. Both a good lesson about valuing your time/effort, as well as being fucking hilarious.