Slave to the table

What I didn't like about cartooning. Being a slave to the media. When I was focused on being a cartoonist it was like being shackled. I slept with a note pad next to the bed in the event I would wake up at 3 am with a great idea. I'd be out at a restaurant eating while the wheels turned and churned for the next great strip. When it hit I would scribble it down on whatever was available, napkin, post it, etc. When I wasn't thinking about the content I was at the table drawing it. While life passed me by. There were times where I'd start in the morning and it'd be 11pm and I'd realize the entire day had passed me by. That amazed me but I was lost in the addiction. It wasn't until I finished college and started making fat cash that I realized how time consuming it was. For me, being alone in my studio for hours upon end was not as fun as being at out with friends. It's been a few years and I look back and have no regrets. My mission now is to make sure you don't have regrets. I want you to succeed in comics if that's what you want to do but I want to make sure you don't throw the rest of your life away.