Why do you make comics/manga?

@kotaotan Kotaotan
Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:20:20 +0000

@kotaotan wrote:

I love these kinds of topics!
I started doing my comics for two reasons. The first was therapy. I'd always been an artist and wanted to do comics, but I'd never really had the drive to get started. In January, 2000 one of my friends attempted suicide. Two days prior we'd been talking and I thought I'd convinced him that suicide wasn't the answer. I spent the next few months dealing with misplaced guilt and finally in April I hit a breaking point. I couldn't deal with it any more so I picked back up on an idea for a comic I'd had in December of '99. I dove in and started working some of my guilt and self loathing into the comic.

The reason I KEPT going was I suddenly had a story to tell. Within a few weeks I had the major story of the series mapped out and I realized I wanted to tell that story more than anything I'd ever wanted in my life. After it was done I realized I had more stories I wanted to tell. And I still do. That's the other reason I wanted to do comics. I have ideas and if I don't do them, then no one will ever know.