I wasn't drawing comics, only when I was like 8 years old. My parents were positive about my art, I think. I was going to art classes in elementary school, but didn't like that as we were doing a lot of similar things and those that I didn't enjoy very much. I just had a different style than the teacher, so everyweek, I was pretending I had a headache, therefore can't go On the other hand I still liked the teacher and I did learn a lot of useful basics, I would say.
I loved to draw animals and dragons, later birds and generally liked to practise drawing wings, so I would start drawing all kind of animals with wings just for fun and practise when I was just doodling, which ws in my later teens. I am not sure why, maybe just that I was shy about it, I tended to hide those from my parents. My mum discovered my sketches and looked like she thought we need to have a talk and that she things it is not normal and she has a problem that I draw that many things with wings. She must have thought I am weird because of that. Well, I tended to lock myself in my room when I was drawing and hid everything as well as I could.
My friends and teachers always praised me, though and were very supportive of my artwork, sometimes telling me they are sure I will do that as a job one day or asked if I was planning to. I didn't really dare have such dreams as I imagined it was difficult. And here I am today, working as a full time artist for a company abroad ^^ Couldn't be happier about that.