How did your family members react to the story you created?

[NOOR_ASAKZ05]

Well I didn't tell anyone.. but my father noticed that I write a lot so he asked me and I told him that I am writing a story and I told him about its classification... well he said that the classifications are not consistent and may spoil the story but I explained to him a small part of the story like its beginning and how the world is destroyed by nuclear weapons then I found that he liked the story and suggested that I turn it into a novel and that we publish it in the Arab Book Publishing House... well I was happy but my happiness did not last because the story contains mature matters such as victims of sexual harassment, depression, mental illnesses and some political conflicts and I do not think that my father will accept the presence of these ideas especially since our society in Iraq views talking about these things as shameful and so on... anyway I will publish it as a manga to the world and then as a novel if I am lucky only to the Arab audience

[MelancholicOtaku]

I haven’t told my parents about the novel I’m writing mainly because my family is highly religious, growing up I wasn’t allowed to watch certain tv shows or partake in certain activities . Since my novels religion is polytheistic then I don’t plan on ever showing them.

[NGChloe]

My mom was confused by what was going on.
My Dad has been interested as I tell him all of the details.
I haven't gotten the chance to talk about the details with my sibling

[NOOR_ASAKZ05]

What is the religion in your novel so that I can read it?

[Oriflamme]

A lot of my family had the reaction of “huh, that’s neat, can you send me the link so I can read it.” and then most of them don’t read it.

My mom is also my editor. In exchange for calling her regularly, she corrects my mistakes and helps me tune up the dialogue and the story beat.

[MelancholicOtaku]

It’s inspired by the Greek gods ,in my novel there are deities called The Old Ones and two primordial figures called The Sheep King Egg which represents Order and Creation and The Goat Kings Egg which represents Destruction and Chaos.

[kyupol]

Lol nobody cares even if I posted it on Facebook many times. Just ignored

[Azifri]

I could create the nicest, weirdest, darkest, controversial, or whatever story ever, and my family's reaction would still be the equivalent of parents sticking your ugly doodle on the fridge door with a magnet

[jwabeasley]

That's too bad, y'all! My parents have always expressed confused bemusement by my art and writing, and my comic is no different. And I don't even do R rated content, they're just very conventional and don't really get why someone would make art, especially something as "lowbrow" as comics.

Fortunately after you grow up you can pick the rest of your family to some degree. My wife loves my art and has been cheering me on for years. She's the first person who I bounce ideas off of or run story ideas past. My kids - especially my oldest two daughters - are my primary audience. They're always on me to do the next comic page because they want to find out what happens next and they race each other to read it in the pencils and inks stages.

So hey, if your parents don't appreciate your work, get you someone who does.

Granted, the fact that my kids watch me work does limit the kinds of things I can create. Limitations lead to creativity!

[AmysGames]

My dad has read some of my older comics and seemed to like them. He asks me about my characters sometimes when he sees me drawing them, though he doesn't usually remember much about them when I ask him later. I think he knows more about my old comic (Aiiro No Kunoichi) than my current one.

My mom is also a writer, so I talk with her about writing stuff sometimes, though not usually with a lot of specific details. She doesn't read my comics, but I do remember one specific page (again, from Aiiro) that she saw and said she was surprised by the level of intrigue, haha.

Meanwhile, my sister reads and comments on every page.

[remiquise]

Father doesn't read, he seems baffled I even bother writing. Doesn't ask nor care about my work's contents. He at least cares about my drawings now, after years of crapping on my art style of course.

My brother, who is homeless, addicted, and has a court date for stealing thinks me a "loser" for writing. He's too preoccupied bragging about all his unsavoury activities and expecting praise when I do see him. Again, doesn't read, ask about, or care.

Mother has been too "worried about" my brother to read any work, while finding time for her own books of course. She's had printed copies for a long time now. Never read, never asks, never cares.

So they have no thoughts on the matter. Par for the course, really, it's just incredibly sad my coworkers give more of a shit than they do. A shame, but for what it's worth my coworkers think my novella is: Incredibly well written to the point he shared it with his own families. Another makes fun of me for having such an old style of writing and usage of vocab, but seems to think me a great writer--- though horror isn't his vibe (he's more of an adventure romance kinda guy, I think?). Another was so disgusted (in the intended way) by my scenes she couldn't get through the rest of it, since the descriptions made her mental image of it just too visceral.

[jwabeasley]

Imagine being prouder of yourself for being a non-contributing blight on society while you deride the work of someone else who's contributing!

I get it, though. It can get better!

[wolflu66]

After my sister saw my comic, she said: 'It's okay~', and didn't say much else. Other family members were about the same.

I put my works (usually illustrations) on social media platforms. Some include NSFW content, which I neither deliberately show nor hide from them, and they usually don't express any opinions about my work.

Although they don't say much, I'm happy to have been born into a family where I can draw freely, without too many restrictions or put-downs.

[drewdoniger]

My dad actually convinced me to start making Reap shortly after I illustrated a children's book for his company. He basically asked if I had fun drawing for it, and told me to just do it, tell my story. In fact, every time I go on hiatus he gets a little worried that I had given up on it. I'm pretty sure that he and my mom are the only ones in my family that actively read it. I think my sister does every so often, but she just doesn't like reading.

My extended family on the other hand, on my mom side probably either don't read it at all, or have and are a little scared of me. Hell, one of my uncles, when he was still alive and long before I started making the comics was in fact scared of how often I drew macabre stuff.

On my dad's side, I don't really know, I'm sure that if they have they would at least appreciate that Emerald is Jewish

[Lensing]

My family has always been very supportive.
My brother and me used to do crazy comic pages every day when we
were kids and our parents always gave us DINA3 printer paper and
pens.

My dad made some lettering for my comic and my mum did the german
dialogues of the characters. The comic got printed and won a contest
and I love that I will always have that memory.

I don´t share every story / comic / music etc. with my family because they wouldn´t like
some of the content. I draw a lot of nsfw stuff and I also see it as nsff(amily)

Here is one of the letterings my dad did, he is 85

[GothickangelStudios]

I started writing my short stories in elementary school based on fan fiction crossovers. I was a kid so it wasn't anything fancy.

By highschool it was my own creations and some shorts, which felt like episodes of a series at times. They were about 32 MS Word pages long. I would hand write them during highschool classes when I was bored. My mother was and stiill is an avid reader. 100 pages an hour. I used to be able to read that fast pre my brain injury too. She likes horror, fantasy, sci fi and mystery genres.
I wrote more mystery, horror. She asked about it one day. I kept printing off one word page at a time off my floppydisk, I let her read it. She was like, the way I pulled people in and the style felt similar to steven king. I know of his movies but never read his books. I was like oh?

I just thought she was being nice though.....until I started my manga.. the comments coming in were talking about how I was pulling people in, the colours would play the environment and mood well. People were relating to the characters and some felt what they felt. As if they were there with them.
I was like...uhhh....huh?
Cause when I look at it I see a mess of things because I'm learning that style.

[ash317]

Well, they are quite fickleminded. Sometimes they support and sometimes they don't. sooo, idk

[NOOR_ASAKZ05]

Your graphics are really good even though some might consider them simple... but keep working.

[Humbug]

Mine don't really care. shrugs

[EncryptedWriting]

Oh they are never reading this story lol