‘older’ creators (25+) let’s support each other!

Hey y'all!

I do love that there are so many talented and motivated young creators, I think it's amazing that so many people want to create comics, but it can be a little hard to relate sometimes! I'm 33 years old, and I'm actually a late-in-life college student studying Sequential Art at SCAD.

I've always loved comics, and I've been drawing comics of some kind for nearly twenty years, but only recently taking active and deliberate steps to work towards making comics my career. I turned 30 and was offered a big office promotion when I had the realization that, if I took that promotion, I would be stuck in that job for the rest of my life, and I would never draw comics. So after talking it over with my husband (and accidentally being stranded in Savannah on our honeymoon), we decided to turn our lives upside-down and move across the country so I could go to college for comics.

My Big Plan is to get my Master's in Sequential Art after I finish my BFA so I can teach at the college level and share my knowledge and love of comics as an art form with the next generation of up-and-coming young artists.

My comic Hollow is about a former magical anime hero who is trying to move on with a normal life after sealing away the last of the magic. It plays on a lot of themes about nostalgia and growing up and being expected to leave your naive childhood fancies behind.

I'm also 31! I've been drawing as a hobby since I got into anime at around 13, but my biggest passion was always music. When it came to choosing what to study at university, I never really considered art. I was okay at it, but I found drawing from life dull back then, and I knew I didn't have the drive there to meet the demands of an art degree. But I definitely had the drive for music, so I wound up going into a bachelor of performance, then followed that up with a graduate diploma in teaching.

I never stopped drawing, though. It was always something I enjoyed in my spare time, and I continually got better as I started sprinkling in a bit more life drawing here and there. A few years back, I felt myself really starting to tire of being a classroom music teacher, and that coincided with me getting an iPad Pro and experiencing one of the biggest bursts of passion and improvement in my art I'd ever had. I decided that I'd cut my teaching down to just teaching singing two days per week, enough to pay the bills, and try to shift gears into an artistic career. After a moorless 9 months of trying to figure out what to specialise in, I found a perfect fit with comics, and started making Blue Star Rebellion as a way to hone that craft.

Ideally, I'd love to continue working on my own stories forever - I'm pretty happy with the working balance I have now, even though money can be tight. My plan was originally to use the best pages from Blue Star Rebellion as portfolio pieces, and get illustration work from publishing houses, but I've since found out that there's nothing else like telling your own story and having people love it, and I'd love to keep doing that.

I love this thread! I'm 32 and currently working on my very first novel. I have a degree in education with an emphasis on English/Literature. I was only an avid reader (especially of fantasy works), and never thought to write my own stories. After being inspired by so many talented writers in the serialized story format, I decided to go for it!

Writing this story had actually become very therapeutic for me in unexpected ways: being in control of a story, the characters and events has been so freeing. It's cliché, but my heart is in this story.

Don't worry about subscribing unless you're a fan of mature, BL dark romance.

I'm a 30 year old Videogame Writer from Argenina who writes on his free time. I've been writing profesional for roughly 10 years and I have some published work in Dynamite Entertaiment. My hobbies include cooking and practicing pro-wrestling in the local indie scene in my country.

My novel is Centris, a flat-out Fantasy Novel (No isekai, no systems, no reincarnations) set in a Kingdom split between two factions of nobles attempting to steer the future of the country alongside their own ideals.

34-year-old commercial driver from the Midwest here. I'm a former security guard and have a bachelors degree in CSI that's currently rotting on the shelf.

I can draw in anime style, buuuuut ... I can't even begin to figure out comic layout and whatnot. So when I make art, I add illustrations to my novels instead. My art is self-taught and decent, but I've been writing since I was ten, so that's how I prefer to tell my stories.

I'm working on a fantasy series, with the first book centered around a vampire and a hunter who begrudgingly join forces to take down a much worse vampire. The second book just released with chapter one today, and this one's more of a drama than the LGBTQ romance at the heart of the first installment.

To anyone who wants to read - start with book one. Book two will make much more sense that way.

I’m 27 and am an auditor who is sometimes really stressed out after looking at financial and IT documents all the time and needed an outlet to release my creative side. No big aspirations or anything I just really enjoyed Villainess stories and wanted to write one of my own. I found out that creative writing is way more complicated than a business report, and I need lots of practice haha.

I'm 32 years old. I work in Nagoya, Japan as an assistant English teacher. I've been drawing forever and time passes, I've come to grips with my mortality and the fact that (while I enjoy it) I don't want to do this job for the rest of my life.
I've been coming up with ideas for stories since high-school. The job in Nagoya doesn't require a much of my time as the other cities I've worked in, so I figured, it's now or never. "Our Sanctuary" doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of the world in my head, but I think it's not half bad.

I'm still catching up on my reading, but I'll be sure to get to all of your works.

Damn kids today with their Instabooks and their Facegrams and their thirty-one flavors of Coke!

90's kid over here. Here's what I get up to:

I'm not comfortable revealing my exact age, but I'm definitely over 25. Was in the military for 6 years (Joined due to a lack of civilian employers willing to hire me.), quit due to moving too far out of town to be able to make the commute, now I'm training to work in a dental billing job. I've been drawing for as long as I can remember, although I really took it on a serious hobby when I turned 11, been casually educating myself on it since. I have trouble with verbal communication so drawing was always my way of expressing thoughts and emotions, never had much of an interest in going to school for it since I don't want the one thing I've consistently enjoyed to turn into a job. Drawing is essentially my tool for venting, and helps give me something to focus on, so I hold a lot of personal value in being able to do it.

Other than that my major interests are in different sciences and such. I do a lot of casual research on pathology, biology, necropsy, psychology, anthropology, philosophy, geology and astronomy. Really, my comic is just an excuse to dig deeper into some of that stuff. I'm also a huge fan of horror and exploring disturbing media, been a fan of the former for about as long as I've been drawing thanks to my dad showed a horror movie to me when I was 3, I've always had an interest in it slice... hmmm... Oh yeah! Really weak for musicals, love that shit! Doesn't matter how terrible is, the high energy and/or songs always gets me pumped. Speaking of musicals, big music person, I'll listen to anything except modern country and I've collected about 9k songs on my computer since high school. I also somewhat know how to play the viola and piano thanks to lessons I had as a child, and can read sheet music.

When it comes to comics, I didn't get into reading them till I was 14, and only got into drawing them at about 20 because I didn't know how to animation. It wasn't my medium of choice, but I've gotten really into it with my current project, it gives me a way to explore and express emotions that I can't with illustration.

I'll drop my comic, but I don't recommend anyone checking it out if they're under the age of 17 (I'm sure kids are reading this thread.), and if you are not a fan of heavier topics like mental illness, abuse and trauma. This is very much a niche, uncomfortable comic that will probably come off as torture/tragedy porn to many.

Hey nice to meet you! I'm in my 30s! I've always enjoyed art and drew a lot in high school, but nothing serious. Then after college I took a long break from art to focus on my job(teaching math). But later I had kids and quit work to take care of them. I've always been into writing stories and loved reading comics and one day about 4 yrs ago realized I missed art and wanted to get back into it. So I bought a surface and got started rather impulsively making a comic. I actually just recently finished drawing that comic and it's last episode will publish in a couple months!

Now I'm working on a new comic. It's a bit of a campy horror comedy, I wanted a change of pace from my previous comic which was HS drama-romance

I'm turning 30 this year! I've been drawing and telling stories since I was a toddler but... Never made it public until the last few years (I shared a manuscript with some friends, and now am publishing my comic). My degree is in Biology and Physiology (which has mostly gotten used to navigate my inherited medical conditions) and I currently work at a library.

I have a lot of health issues, that I found out TODAY were due to an inherited metabolic problem. I have nerve pain and muscle weakness from this, and though I'm recovering and doing much better, I'm still limited with how much creative stuff I can do in a single day. I'm currently trying to figure out how to voice type, and then maybe I can get a bit more creative mileage. No drawing, but I could potentially write.

I have a huge interest in sci-fi and animation and character design, so a lot of my effort in my comic goes into that.

It's funny to see "old" and 25 together. I just turned 40 and thought I'd start making a comic strip a month because it's a pretty small commitment. Also a way to share a bunch of game of thrones inside jokes with others. Anyway, I'm excited to check out all these other comics from people who are just doing it for fun on the side. Cheers!

Late thirties, here. My day job is store manager for a mom-n-pop retail shop. I went to school for 2D animation, but never got the chance to use it thanks to a lot of life issues going on at the time. So now I'm attempting to make comics and write a couple books in what spare time I have in order to relax after working all day and dealing with humans. Because three or more projects going on at once is relaxing, apparently... I wish I had taken the opportunity during lockdown to start my comic (or be productive in any way, shape, or form), but I ended up spending that playing Mass Effect and Animal Crossing to detox from retail work.

I think no one in this thread is really "old" by now We are all bloody young

I'm 27 and draw since I was a kid, no clue when I really begin. A few years back I started drawing webtoons. Before that I draw a few mangas and even wrote fanfics ( XD ) but was never really active online.
My boyfriend gave me the strength to upload my work and draw more. Since then I got more and more confident.
In my daily live I'm a programmer for online shops and have a dog <3 I try to draw as much as possible beneath the work, but it's sometimes really hard to manage. Also bc I want to visit friends and family, have time with my boyfriend and dog and just want to do some other hobbies, like gaming, sometimes.

My comic is "Grim Reaper in training". It had a good start with nearly 200 subs at the first day (2 years ago), but after that I just grow really slowly. Till last month I had 800 subs. I was really proud of me to get this much, but then webtoon set my comic on the start page and I just grew up to 3K subs. Thats overwhelming. On tapas I don't have that much audience. The start was hard and I barely get new followers here. But I try hard on both platforms

I'm 32 I've always made up fictional stories or planned out novels when I was younger but now is my first time actually writing one. I also started writing fanfictions, mainly for improving my English when I moved to the UK for university.

When I was in uni studying biology, I realised how much I loved writing and thus became a medical writer, because I found it to be the best-paid writing job available to me. And now I'm here

Good thing I recently just turned 25. Glad to see so many older creator still aspiring to tell great stories!

Hi! I'm 26. I'm office worker but after hours I'm comic artist. I also love to do illustrations. I hope one day I'll become full-time artist
And here's my comic: