Why Comics?

Why do comics? That's something I ask myself a lot. My answer? Because I love 'em and it makes me happy, plain and simple.

I never got in to comics for money. I could have been making way more money in the high tech field that I left to get in to comics, no question.

At what price, though? Happiness? I never found myself particularly happy designing some website or creating some code for random tech companies in Seattle. Well paying? Sure. Satisfying? Not really.

These days I've got a dozen projects on my plate, from comics to graphic novels to Emerald City to vinyl toys to webcomics to video game projects to half a dozen other things. I'm not sure which to get to first and I can't wait to get to the ones that I'm not working on.

You can't put a price on that, it fucking rules.

Eisner Award winner Fabio Moon asks some fellow creators (Matt Fraction, Ivan Brandon, Grampá, Gerard Way, Gabriel Bá and Dave Stewart) the question "Why Comics?" Here are their answers: