Is that just simply no longer true?

Uh, yes, I'm afraid so.

It's simply no longer true.

That was the straw that broke the camel's back.

It wasn't the first time that had happened, unfortunately.

Um, there was a, a cartoon, uh, of all the tech billionaires and, and other billionaires genuflecting to Trump for his inaugural fund, standing before a giant statue of him.

Uh, it was spiked before it even ran, and, um, uh, to the point of, of, you know, that you make about, um, you know, cartoonists being a dying breed, uh, I, I should clarify, staff cartoonists-

Yeah

Like, how covered were your schoolbooks? [laughs]

[laughs] It's a very apt question, Skye, 'cause it's part of the reason I'm a cartoonist.

I would absolutely, just to be able to concentrate, I had to occupy my hands and my brain with something else while I was listening.

My books and my files were completely covered with drawings, and I had to take two buses and two trains to school every day.

So of course, on the trip as well, on the, uh, [laughs] on the commute, it was also just nothing but scribbling in the margins.

But I got detention for drawing...

Uh, I did it.

... sort of encapsulates where you are, what would that be?

So NCS asks, how can I best use Substack to publish or monetize my comic?

So comic is the operative word there.

Substack, further what you were saying before about niches being the thing, no big wide world is going to agree on you anymore.

There's no sort of mass thing.

fame or ubiquity in the way that, you know, Garfield or Snoopy, you know, or Peanuts, you know, had, the better thing to do is to really niche down on the one thing you're really, really good at.

And the one thing you do, and so if you're doing a comic, be it autobiographical or be it, you know, a sequential, like a series, I think...

the best things you can do to monetize it.

That's really the first thing that I see is a lack of consistency.