Holding your first printed comic with your name on the cover in your hands is one of the best feelings in a creative life. But before you go down that road, there are a few questions you need to answer honestly — because making comics requires something I call creative endurance.

This episode is about an important Long Road Question: why do you want to make comics? Not because any answer is wrong, but because your answer shapes everything that follows — how you approach it, what you're willing to sacrifice, and whether you'll still be on the road a year from now. I also talk about the passion tax — the price you pay to do any creative endeavor in time, money, effort, and opportunity cost — and the three viable paths to actually making comics happen.

Oh, and to increase the level of difficulty, I recorded this while holding my seven-week-old son. Because I was on baby duty and the Long Road doesn't stop for nap time.

This is also my first attempt to start identifying relevant terms/concepts to build a shorthand.

A glossary of sorts.

Let me know if these are helpful and I will include more of them!

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