I was debating whether or not I should keep making posts on just comics, but I'm gonna put my foot down and make this post my last one on the subject of comics for a while...

I just wanted to share some timeless Calvin & Hobbes strips that I found not too long ago. It just amazes me how relevant they are today, despite being well over 20 years old:

He's got a point...

This one was something I could definitely relate to. I didn't like school that much either growing up because I just wanted to do the things that I was interested in. I didn't want to spend all this time learning how to find the circumference of a circle or how cell division worked when I could've been drawing cool pictures and writing neat stories that I could share with other people.

Here's one that I've come to notice as pretty accurate in today's age of Social Media:

This would explain the rise in Fan Art...

A lot of artists I've seen on Twitter got a good portion of their viewership from doing fan art. Or just art of things that are trending at the time. Especially around the time of certain events, like a video game release or an anticipated movie trailer. When I used to post drawing on my Twitter, this was something I quickly realized. And honestly, it kinda killed some of my motivation and bummed me out knowing that anything original I came up with would almost undoubtedly go unnoticed. Even if it was something that I thought was really cool and interesting.

-elm