In general, I like to be candid about my creative mistakes in the hopes that you can avoid similar ones. It’s hard, when starting out, to know what to trust of yourself. When beginning a new series or project, how do you know if you can follow it through? Especially if it’s an ongoing one, and not a strip with a defined beginning, middle and end? What if you get through six months of stories and hit an impenetrable wall?
Maybe that’s a fallacy on my part. I don’t think Charles Schulz started Peanuts worrying whether or not he’d have enough material to last him fifty years. But it’s a paralyzing worry I have. I know that we (Scott, Dave, Brad and I) have preached that you should launch a project quietly and then grow it over time: you evolve it and direct it towards what you really want. It can’t begin there.
















