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Why I started drawing again after 20 years, and why I quit in the first place.

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Going back, almost as far as I can remember, my first loves were always Star Wars and super hero comic books. And from that love of comic books I got the desire to draw and over time wanted to be a comic book artist more than anything. From the time I was very young, and all the way up through high school, I loved to draw my own comic books and created countless versions of my own super heroes and universes. As I got older I eventually got the internet and soon began to seek out other kindred spirits who also shared my love of comic books. This lead me to create a Yahoo Club back in the day (which later Yahoo would change the name to groups) called Original Comic Creators Club, or OCCC for short. This club was full of lots of *very* amateur artists like myself and we would share our love of comic books and eventually started to create community comics where we took turns writing and drawing sections of the same comic book and I created a web site later to display and...