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>>223982 Yeah but that's way easier said than done. Especially if your day job also involves animating or illustrating you're at risk for burning yourself out. Drawing for 8 hours and then coming home to draw more and/or having to set aside weekends to work on your comic instead of relaxing with friends or family can really wear on you, and webcomics are labours of love so you aren't even getting a lot of money back for the blood, sweat and tears you put into making it. If it gets too stressful and you fall out of the update rhythm you've set for yourself you might not ever get back on. The real tragedy is that Der-shing had been working on The Meek's storyline for years before it went live and it had previous versions--she definitely knew where she wanted to go with it and had it plotted from start to finish, but circumstances mostly beyond her control killed it in the cradle.
It takes a lot of willpower + time management skills to bring a webcomic to a graceful finish and people who manage to do it are pretty amazing I think.
Kind of on the same topic, Coela is going to start her comic Platinum Black sometime soonish. It's kind of like The Meek in that it was a pet project with a long history (and that sometimes there's non-sexualised uncovered boobs, I guess) and she has to juggle her job and MGDMT in addition to this new story. She has someone else to do the colours though, and she hasn't missed an update week for MGDMT yet, so hopefully it won't share the same fate. As far as I can tell Platinum Black is built on concepts that I'm super interested in + use in my own stuff so I just really hope it succeeds. I hope it succeeds and that none of its fans are like the MGDMT commenters.
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