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Nov 2022

My mum sometimes red my comics and therefore I made a large part of my current comic uninteresting to her, because later I write about really personal things that also include her (also parents of MC look exactly like mine)

My bro knows I draw and make novels and at one point held fix an programming error in a game i was making, he just aint reading them. And Im fine with that I rather not have my family know the horrific stuff I draw and write.

For all they know I draw flowers and jesus

Noooope I would not want my parents reading my comics ... or at the very least, not read them while knowing I'm the one who made them :'D They're not interested in webcomics and one of them doesn't have much English under their belt, so that's probably not gonna happen anyway XD

Other family members ... maybe, when they get to an age where they can handle things :]

While I know some wouldn't immediately show any judgement, I would never like that to happen

Nope. I hide my stuff in the deepest closet and tell no one in real life I write. Ok, a little bit of an exaggeration. I talk about my writing a lot with my husband and sister, but they don’t read it. So… I write some wild stuff!

I let my siblings read them so they could give me feedback and suggestions.
As for my parents, my father was curious about it, and I think he read a couple of chapters. He dislikes the profanities I use, but later, he understands that it gives character. My mother sadly doesn't understand English.
I don't mind my family reading my work. But probably not my extended family. I'll be embarrassed!

No, and fortunately they're highly unlikely to. They are vaguely aware that I'm making a comic, because I've mentioned it a few times, but I don't think they even know the title, and none of 'em are the type to read webcomics for fun anyway. Which I am 100% fine with.

I don't really show my family MOST of my art, in fact. My mom went a little 'Satanic Panic' when I was a teenager and made it clear she didn't approve of magic, monsters, superpowers, etc. Of course, rather than stop reading/writing/drawing that stuff (and making fluffy Christian stuff like she probably wanted me to...), I just... hid it.

It took me a long time to be able to trust real IRL people other than a few close friends with my actual, non-decoy art, again.

My dad made the handlettering for my last printed comic and my mum helped me with the
dialogue. They are both over 80. My brothers family, wife, nieces read my comic.
It´s a silly cartoonish family friendly comic.

I have other stories, comics which are not family friendly and I don´t share
them with anyone for some reasons. 1) I will start teaching kids next year
2) I don´t want creative decisions / thoughts to be influenced by society/family.
When you have one thought about the "target audience" it will have influence on
your expression as an artist and that´s something I want to avoid. I don´t want
to communicate with anyone when I´m doing art, my goal is to create something
that I love without thinking about what other people exspect me to do or want
to see

I'd pretty much have to write under a pseudonym and publish in secret to avoid my mum reading my comics. :sweat_02:

I'm from a small town, and I've been doing professional work in comics and placing in national comics competitions since I was in my early twenties. My parents are very proud of me and I learned as a kid, it doesn't matter if what I'm drawing is the weebiest, trashiest anime stuff, they will show it to the entire town if I even just leave it somewhere where they can find it (as a child this was leaving it somewhere in the house, as an adult, it's putting it anywhere on the internet that can be found via my name) whether or not they're given permission.

On the upside and to their credit, my parents are perfectly fine with me being gay, making comics with LGBTQIA+ characters and themes, and fortunately since my parents are staunchly socialist and feminist, it's hard to put political stuff in my work that will upset them (in fact my mum loves all the political themes in my work).

....But I still don't like putting stuff in my work where I'd feel uncomfortable if my parents, siblings, all my old teachers saw it. I'm not ashamed of being gay, so having characters be gay in my work is fine, and I'm long-past being embarrassed about being a weeb, so I happily draw manga trash about people with spikey hair and giant swords, but I draw the line at anything ecchi. 'Cause when the character is leering at and sexualising other characters... it's kind of you, the creator doing it in a way (because you're the one drawing the body and choosing the angle, it's your gaze), and I just don't want my parents seeing me drooling over ladies... that's just....eugh, it's like if you went to a strip club and took your parents along to watch you getting a lapdance or something! :cry_02:

My parents are the only ones who basically follow my two comics at the moment, one of which I don't even post anywhere and don't translate into English, now it exists only for them and for me. When I was a teenager, they didn't consider creativity to be something important and weren't interested in it (or sometimes even angry that I spend too much time on it xd), but now they even like what I do and it seems to me that without their support lately I would have given up and not even tried to start something create it now :>

My bro reads my comic to check if the bro of my maincharacter is very much alike him :joy:
Yeah, it affects me in that I want the comic-bro to be super likeable :slight_smile:
And for my parents... pff they wont read it.
I plan some critical episodes about not-so-well-gone-parenting but I don't have to show them, have I?

Thankfully my parents have a hard time catching up with fantasy stories that aren't novels so any attempts at reading my comic were met with confusion at best. I've shown it to my other relatives too, but something that was true even before I got into comics is that no one really cares about my art if I'm not doing something for them, unfortunately.

My best irl reader other than my friends is my therapist. She's always super thrilled to be reading my comic or the newest draft of my novel while I'm doing an ADHD behavior task and can't talk, haha

Everyone around me, and this includes family, friends, coworkers, neighbors, and random people who make the mistake of talking to me for too long, know that I write and draw comics. Some read them regularly, but the majority isn't interested in fiction and/or comics, which is fine. I have some stories that I don't post online, but even those I have no issues in sharing privately. I mean, what dark or controversial stuff could I possibly write that they haven't already watched or read.

Oh damn this is getting a lot of replies. I wanna add to the conversation... you guys afraid of potential children/grandchildren getting a hold of some of your stuff? I think that's another factor why I lean off of some stuff I mentioned. Especially after meeting my little niece after so many years. I sorta wanna make my stories time capsules so they can see how I developed over the years and learn lessons I learned? Stuff like that. As a result, all my stories are full of characters that have a little bit of my personality in them, but not to the point where it's intrusive.

My parents are super judgmental. They are the type of people who are supportive by the idea that I make comics but I don't think they would enjoy my work. I think they think I write comics like Mutts. So I never really sent a link to them, because I don't want to deal with them judging me.

I did tell my brother about my comics but I don't think he ever read them. I did post a picture of my OCs on Facebook and my cousin gave it a like, so I guess I have one somewhat supportive person.

I am not worried about this because my series tend to be PG13 and never get too suggestive or gory.

Not really. I gave a copy of the print version of my webcomic to my seven-year-old niece today. There's nothing in there really much worse than like... an episode of Adventure Time or the Lord of the Rings movies (which she's a big fan of). I know she's seen me drawing pages before and simply said things like "Oh! She cut the monster's arm off! Why is his blood blue?" :sweat_02:
I tend to put the "this isn't suitable for kids" line at "is it worse for violence than Star Wars?", "Does it have more sexual stuff, drinking, smoking etc. than an episode of Friends or The Simpsons?" and my comics are generally pretty tame!

haha...no

i love em and theyre supportive of me as an artist but i know theres thing they wouldnt approve of whether in my comics or elsewhere and i just do not want to deal with it. theres some stuff that already been seen or found and even if nothing is said outright the faces are a dead giveaway so i do what im able to hide stuff and try to avoid any drama

ideally itd be easier to manage once im moved out but like as its stands i just dont want them seeing anything else...

"future kids/grandkids" are of no concern coz its not happening lol

Oh yeah for sure, though it's mostly unfounded. My younger relatives all watch way harsher stuff than my comic but I know a parent is gonna look at me weird because I'm in the family daring to draw a little bit of scary stuff.

But for that case, that's why I'm trying to make other smaller comics/zines, that I can share with anyone!