I had a heart attack last year.
Bear with me, I swear this is related. I didn’t mess around with a minor heart attack, I had a 99% obstruction of my left anterior descending artery, which is cheerfully called a widowmaker. I had about a 15% chance of survival, which I only learned afterward.
I’m fine now, as far as any one can tell. My heart function bounced back to normal and I feel fine. I could go on about the weird psychological effect of nearly dying but not feeling like you nearly died, but this isn’t about that.
This is about Death or Comics. It’d be a great story to tell you that I had that heart attack and it gave me some kind of epiphany about what I’d like to see in comics and decided to build a side business around it.
But that wouldn’t be the truth. Death Or Comics has been brewing for a while. It’s just irony that it nearly killed me. Others often aren’t so lucky. And while the narrative is false, it’s not necessarily wrong.
Because the point of Death Or Comics is to make comics easier. For me, personally, it’s meant to ease my reliance on just writing all the time. I had just finished an eighteen month hard push with comics when I had the heart attack. Literally, I’d turned in my last thing that was part of that two weeks beforehand.
I’ve done well in comics, but it’s been an incredible grind. I’ve done forty trades work of stuff (and what will turn out to be about 2500 pages of webcomics) in a decade or so. I need to do something different and more sustainable.
Death Or Comics is, hopefully, that. A place comics easier. Partly by providing resources and education. Partly by talking about the industry and what it’s actually like, with some actual numbers and personal experience attached.
I’ll get into specifics about that next week, but if you’re at Heroes this week, ask me about it.
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