I had a major personal breakthrough this week that I want to share that I hope YOU can take from. Who knows. Maybe it helps you breakthrough walls that are holding you back.
Also. We’re launching FINDING CLUES WITH DETECTIVE BLUE #1 on Kickstarter in 8 days. Crazy! Please sign up for the pre-launch to be notified!
So this breakthrough actually took place while I was drawing this week.
You see…there’s question I asked myself almost 9 years ago that has changed the entire trajectory of my life. But…we’ll get to what that question was later down in the post. Let’s get back to what happened this week.
You see, while I was working on the greytones of this latest Kickstarter we’re launching, and I started asking myself these questions:
Should I continue with Draw and Talk and start bringing back creator interviews?
Should I try and join back the network groups of creators who have at multiple times thrown me under the bus?
How do I continue to make comics without the blessings of my peers?
What should I do in order to re-create the bliss of 2020s when I had all these friends in comics that I was collaborating with and having a silly goose time with?
And then it hit me…
Why the fuck am I thinking about others right now and not thinking about myself and what I want?
I have a lot of great friends in comics. I probably a good 5-6 creators I still talk with every now and then, and then 20+ individuals I interact with on and off.
But I keep wanting to go back to the “good ol days” when I was doing Draw and Talk Live shows, bringing on multiple creators, having a blast, creating content, and just constantly shooting the shit. It was such a simpler time it felt like and I keep asking myself “what do I need to do to get myself back to that point in time?”
But here’s the thing…
That point in time is gone. I’m not the same person I was back then. YOU that are reading this right now…YOU aren’t the same person you were last year or 5 years ago.
Living in the past feels romantic. It really does.
But there’s no turning back the time, we have to move forward with who we are now, and who we want to become going forward.
So. I’ve decided to stop asking for permission to move forward with my life.
I’m just going to move forward.
The only question I ask is this…
Will you move forward with me?
Now that I’m fully self employed, I have the greatest opportunity to really carve out the lifestyle that I want.
I want comics to be a part of it.
I want YOU to be a part of it.
But I also know that I am someone who can’t let go of the past sometimes, and part of moving forward is moving on from what I’ve built and starting all over.
So I’m starting a whole new Youtube channel.
I’ll tell you about it after I’ve uploaded a few videos on it. I’ve started filming myself actually making the art for my comics. From sketches, coloring, to grayscaling, all of it.
But this isn’t a channel where I talk about comics drama, or internet beefs, or even reviewing books. No. This is where we talk about leveling ourselves up, what we’re doing to better our lives, and create the future that we want.
Because ultimately that’s what I want for myself, and it’s also what I want for the people I hold dear. I want us all to level up and create a life that we enjoy.
Over the last 8 months, I’ve had my life turned upside down, at the worst possible time as well. MY WIFE IS GIVING BIRTH THIS WEEK. You know how stressed out I am?
But let me tell you what the stresses of these last several months has done:
It’s pushed me to start a business with my friend and we’ve already started making full-time income from it. It’s led me into the doors and relations of CEO’s of wealthy companies asking me how I can help their companies grow. It’s led me to speaking in front of people about marketing and learning new skills.
And you know what the crazy thing about all of this is…
NONE OF THIS WOULD BE POSSIBLE HAD I NOT ASKED THE FOLLOWING QUESTION:
“How can I sell more of my comic books?”
Seriously! That questioned and the quest I took to learn how to answer this question changed the trajectory of my life.
I’m not the great comic book creator. I don’t sell the most books. In fact I sell enough books that I have enough money to make the next book comfortably.
But you know what making comics has given me?
the ability to speak in front of people
the ability to market and sell
the ability to take on confrontation
the ability to stand for who I am and what I do, despite backlash from people who honestly don’t matter in the grand scheme of things
So what’s the point of all this?
The point is this.
Keep leveling up.
Don’t let others hold you back.
Be curious and vigilant on finding the answers to your questions.
Use stress and hardship as the fuel to get what you want in this life. Fight through it.
Ask yourself this question:
If my story was being documented or made into a movie, and viewers were watching me at my lowest point…
What would they want to see from me? What kind of person would they want me to become?
I bet you they’d want to see a fighter.
So go.
Fight.
By the way I hope you enjoyed the pictures in this email. The double page spread is pages 2-3 of FINDING CLUES WITH DETECTIVE BLUE #1
The next image was a screenshot from Twitter showcasing what the new Draw and Talk channel would look like. I might call the channel something like “Tyler Your Artist Friend” or something like that. I don’t know.
The third image is with me, my friend Hyrum who is the CEO of his own company, and Ansu, the CEO of a massive company in China who I’ve known and worked with over the last two years.
The fourth image is progress of SUPER PLUMBER SISTERS #4 fulfillment.
The fifth image is from the new Peaky Blinders movie on Netflix. It was…fine.
Alright.
Y’all have a great day.
Was this newsletter super lame today?
Someone once asked “Tyler you get kinda personal in your newsletters…is that a good idea?”
I have no idea.
Should I keep going this route or just…I don’t know…
Do you want me to review shit?
You tell me what you want and I’ll do it.
Tyler
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