Snowglobe of Doom posted:

I knew one guy back in the 90s who was making his own smallpress comics and they were really loving terrible. He was in his 30s but the comics looked like they were written and drawn by a 12 year old and it was absolutely obvious to everyone but him. Most of the other local smallpress comicbook creators just ignored him but a few took pity and tried to encourage him so he was always turning up to meets and trying to set up collaborative projects and he even had big plans on running his own comicbook publishing label. I lost track of him but spotted him again a decade later where he was still creating the same absolutely awful comics and he'd even hired a table at the local Comic-con convention and was trying to compete with professional artists. I later learned that he had dyslexia and I think some kind of autism and he really genuinely couldn't see any difference between his comics and the stuff that was being published by Marvel and DC and he never understood why he couldn't break into the big time.