Yeah, comics are hard. And they take a lot of time. I've been drawing comics a lot as a kid and teenager. I published them in the school paper, and one got published in a fanzine, but only because it was part of a youth project. It was a comic workshop my city offered for teenagers and I was in that comic group for two or three years, and the teachers were an artist together with I think it was some sort of social worker.

Looking back I think it was some sort of thinly disguised city social work for drug and gang prevention, at least we always met in these youth centers in "sozialen Brennpunkten", first some then quite dilapidated building near the central station, then in some sort of anti-drug project thing, where I (as sheltered comfortably middle class girl) would have never ventured, had I not seen the flyer in the library advertising this. I was somewhat out of place, one of the few girls and among the youngest too, but it was quite fun, and at the time I didn't really realize that I was not actually the target audience. Anyway, one year we did a fanzine together, and had an exhibition at the local comic con. On the downside they never gave back the original artwork to us.