What do you for a living aside from doing comics?

[custoriomariechanta]

Well, I know every creator here has undying love for creating comics. I'm just wondering how do you support yourself? What is your life aside from comic-ing? Is anyone here has a job unrelated to comic like for example you are in the corporate world and comic making is your side line job or just plain hobby? I'm really curious how you manage the two? Time wise, do you still have social life? Haha I'm sorry these are weird questions but I'm really curious and I hope to learn from everyone's time management.. Hoping for everyone's response! Thanks for reading

[Kura]

I'm handicapped, have chronic illnesses and I am on lots of medication, so I am actually unable to work. Making comics is my way of not feeling like I'm a completely worthless burden to society that has absolutely nothing to contribute.

The income I make from comics is pretty much my only income (aside from disability cheques) which is far from enough to allow me to live on my own, especially if I need assisted living. So I live with my family and with combined effort we pay the bills and such, though my contribution to said bills is so small it borders on pathetic, as comics are not a very huge income grab.

[kurisquare]

I'm currently in grad school to get an MSc in Astronomy, and I work on research and giving tours of the observatory. I consider comics to be my second job more than a hobby, so I take it very seriously and always make time to work on my comic even if I'm always busy with other things. I don't go out that much but I still have a social life, and I'm trying to sleep a decent amount of hours.

My time management is mostly based on removing all other "distractions" that make me waste time, since I stopped checking Tumblr I've gotten a lot more time I didn't know I had

[jjfresh]

Hah, corporal world and comics is very very unlikely. Not impassible, I'm an example, but very unlikely. Those mindsets do not work together. I'm in college with a major in Mathematics and hope of becoming an actuary--a business related career choice.

In addition to drawing and comic making, I enjoy history, snowboarding, longboarding, politics, mathematics, physics, psychology, some literature, music, etc etc. Lots of the really good artists here are pure artists and some are hobbyists who have different lives. It's very interesting.

[jaljanaesarang]

Sorry for being a busybody but can I give you a virtual hug?
hug

[UltHamBro]

I'm currently in college, and it's hard to divide the time between studying, doing comics, other hobbies, and simply procrastinating.

[igneriss]

I'm currently in uni, majoring in chemistry c: but as for job, I get paid for drawing colouring books and memory games for kids from time to time : D It's quite hard to go with those two and also comics, but somehow I can manage, even having a bit of social life CX

[jayorten]

Because I'm a dependant, I don't really have an official job yet (though I'm planning to get a temporary job this summer), so the only thing I'm doing besides my art is schoolwork for graduation (I'm in 11th grade BTW).

[Dranif]

I'm currently in college, so no, I don't have a job currently.
It's difficult to find a decent balance between making two comics, doing homework, eating, sleeping, and anything else.

[SpavVy]

I work at a shoe store, the people I work with are pretty cool.

[Doubtcent]

I work for an entrepreneur, almost full time every day. I get orders from Amazon and emails for certain items, mainly foreign DVDs and homeschool materials, package them in envelopes or boxes and send them out to customers. On the side I do the same by selling video games and odd books off of Amazon for paying bills.

Soon I'll be a part of a content creating channel, a sort of multi-media company, dealing with everything from music to gaming, from comic making (here) and writing. I'm mostly in charge of the art, making thumbnails and the online banners, but I also put work in the writing.

[zerobloodyrose]

I'm currently reading contemporary art and philosophy at university. I love art and it's a huge interest of mine for a long time.

[gateofselidor]

I proofread Japanese to English translations for video games. Working in the games industry isn't easy or stable employment, but I love what I do and I work with some really great people.

I get my comics done in breaks and at lunch, after work and at weekends. It usually works out, but when a project hits crunch time it can be difficult to make time for drawing. I don't have much of a social life, and when I do meet with friends or family it becomes very difficult to get my comic pages done on time.

[TAMAnnoying]

I make lenses for eyeglasses :v not much more to say bout that. You pop out the demo lenses and put the prescription in the material then edge it to fi the frames ^^

[AlkseeyaKC]

I do online art commissions for money. Its kind of crazy. Some times I wonder if I should get a job flipping burgers or putting things on shelves. But I think I'm making just as much if I had one of those jobs so why switch?

[edwarddippolito]

In addition to working on comics. I'm lucky enough that I get to teach anime, manga and graphic novel art to kids. The pay isn't insane but it does give me joy.

[theunderfold]

I work for a non-profit as a Web Content Manager. I got the experience for my current job while doing webcomics for the last decade. It's fun and I get to do a lot of training that also helps me in my webcomics business as well.

[AnnaLandin]

Right now, not much - I'm kind of between jobs.

But when I do have work, I am a freelance illustrator/comic artist. I've worked illustrating textbooks, doing covers for self-published nobels, I've had comics published in a couple of magazines and anthologies, I've done character/creature/environment illustrations for a game that's in development (it's in beta right now), etc., etc. I sell paintings when I can - acrylic and watercolour, mostly - and so on.

In between the times when those jobs come along, I'm trying to lure people into backing me on Patreon (my backers get early access to Grassblades-pages - always being two pages ahead of regular readers - as well as access to my sketches, works in progress and concept art, and backers on higher tiers get PDFs of about 350 pages of other comics I've done).

It's difficult getting any sort of career off the ground, and work has been pretty irregular, but I'm working on it! ... Know anyone who needs anything drawn?

[Ayumi]

I work in a factory as a slave XD I'm in 3 time shift and kinda work all time :/ I wanna find a better job, but it's hard especially because I'm not a talkative person, and most workplace search for such people -.-;
I worked in a digital press before as a graphic designer, but I got fired. I'm not sure I wanna get such a job again, but I feel I'm not good at anything at all, so I just try to find something like that... ^^;

[gurukittystudio]

I am a purchasing assistant in the head office of a B.C. Chain of art stores. I went to school to be an animator but I got really tired of ever studio I worked at shutting down after each contract and chasing the next one I sort of settled for the 9-5 job.
Conventions and doing tutorials for Copic Pay for my art supplies and comic printing costs.

an art store is also a good place to have a discount too