Coin Op-The Comic

Hey everone, sorry for the lack of blog updates but there is something I do feel I want to unload here.

Most everyone will tell you that you need to surround yourself with positive supportive people. People that believe in what you are doing and want to help you acheive that goal. In turn, you need to be able to help them as well with the goals they set, since it's only fair.

Now a good case in point are my friends at Coloring Dragons.com, these guys started roughly about the same time I was having problems with that "other site". Now these guys saw something in my material that made them think this was good enough to offer me webspace to post CO:TC and give me access to where I can update this when I need to. In turn, I'm doing what I can to keep their forums interesting (still don't know how successful I am at that) and do what I can to get more traffic over to their site.

From them we met people like Mack Misa (who has Halfling Warriors :POUF) and my friend joined in and wrote a spin off of a CO charater that he's based on (Mattman!). Talented people like Lirael, and Ryan Vogler are showing up and essentially we're trying to make a place where people can be themselves. Kinda like some other big name sites that lost track of what they are supposed to be.

Now....something that I noticed that kinda disturbs me a bit. Is where my family stands on this idea of me drawing (and trying to make a living off of it). I know that my family loves me and wants me to do well in life. But they don't support what I'm doing, to them this is essentially just something to fill free time. The best I got one day was "well, keep trying, you might be able to make some pocket change off of it." And that was the last time I tried sharing with my family about what I'm doing and where I want to take this.

On that note, I just want to ask you guys for a few things.....
1) Find friends who believe in you and don't let them go.
2) Don't let those who don't believe in you affect you in any way.
3) If you like things like this, email those reponsible so they know they should keep going. It doesn't matter what strip or comic or cartoon you read. Most of these guys do it for fun, and most of these guys do this for free. A little gratitude wouldn't kill you.

Enough rambling...
I'm out of here
Dan -soon to be loved by....I can't even type out that lie- Eller.