I was noticing in the server logs this morning that someone came in from an ip address at the University of Maryland on the following Google search string:<\/p>\n
coming out comic garrett<\/pre>\n<\/div>\nWell…that made my day right there. Someone went looking Specifically for my cartoon series, A Coming Out Story.<\/em> They didn’t know or couldn’t remember the title exactly, but they knew what it was about and at least the last name of the guy who did it. <\/p>\n
Nice. Cartooning was the first love. I gave up hope that I’d ever make a living at it for pretty much the same reason I gave up on being a professional photographer. I’m just not competitive enough, and when I was younger too timid, shy and scared to try making a go of things as a freelancer. Ironically, I ended up spending most of my life freelancing in other fields, only one of which, architectural modelmaking, even remotely touched on my artistic skills. But there it is. I gave up dreaming about seeing my cartoons in print anywhere. Then along came the internet and I could just put up my own web site and see if my stuff attracted anyone.<\/p>\n
It does. I have put zero effort into advertising anything I do here and yet after just a few years I get hits on my cartoons from all over the world. Not a torrent of hits. But the steady nature of what I do get is more rewarding then you can imagine. <\/p>\n
Which is why I’ll be spending the weekend down in the art room…<\/p>\n
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