People talking about art school. My experience was: graduated performing arts boarding school for high school, dropped out of CalArts after 2 years. I studied tech theatre and creative writing so I learned a ton about design, storytelling, collaboration, taking/giving criticism.

I bring all of it to bear in my work now and nearly every job I’ve ever had before. But like regular school it’s going to be about you and what you want to get out of it. I think you know early whether art school is a good fit for you. I do wish I hadn’t quit, just changed focus.

I’d say the most important thing I got from art school was a kind of humility. I think young artists think that just because they made a thing it automatically has value to other people. Not true at all. And maybe you don’t need that connection to other people/audience. I do.

In school you make a lot of work and it goes on the chopping block and you learn pretty quick that your work doesn’t necessarily mean shit to anybody, even if you know it’s good, or even if it’s everything to you. Good lesson for comics, where work often doesn’t find an audience.