Planning Your Comics Career Like A Video Game
When my first full-length graphic novel, “The Spectacular Adventures of Zsazsa Zaturnnah” made waves for the most part of the 2000s, many people said that I was a success, that I could content myself with the fact that I’ve made a great contribution to Philippine pop culture, Philippine comics –Philippine literature even– in the New Millennium. While I was thankful for the unexpected accolades, it didn’t sink in so much. Maybe I was in denial. Maybe I believed the success was premature. Or maybe I didn’t really have an idea of what my success should look like. To me, the fact that I was able to finish the book and get it published was my true success. Everything else became a nice bonus. But maybe I should have looked at building my success differently, especially if I had really wanted to make comics my career. It’s important to define what your success will look like, especially if you plan to make comics over the long-term. If you’re starting out, your measure of s