adamtots_remastered

Yeah, that was Coldstone! I asked them to donate money to Inner City Arts and they were pretty prompt about it and donated $10k. A lot of folks felt I should've asked for payment myself, but I know from experience that brands almost never pay you when they steal work. They just delete the post and ignore it. Asking for a donation to charity added pressure, and it worked!

I've tried not to pay too much attention to that subreddit. I mostly try not to read what people are saying about me in general, good or bad, because I could easily lose my mind. I usually post comics and then go for a walk or something!

BuzzFeed wasn't as restrictive as people think. I essentially had creative freedom to do what I wanted as long as my content performed well. I set my own goal to make a comic every day, and I learned a lot from that process. Some of the stuff that I made was stupid, and I reused assets to save time, but I also made a lot of stuff that I'm really proud of. Those things never got posted because it didn't fit the narrative of "BuzzFeed hack" certain people had built. I was basically learning how to be a comic artist while at BuzzFeed and it was all on display—both good and bad.

Once it became clear I didn't have a long term future there, I spent a couple months saving money and trying to set up some freelance gigs so I'd have a softer landing. But even then it was super scary. At some point you just have to close your eyes and jump and hope for the best. Also, once I actually quit my job I immediately switched into survival mode and began working my ass off because I no longer had the safety of a salary.

I'm not sure what his story is! I was taking my kitten Pepper in for a checkup, and while she was in there I went to visit with the shelter cats and Maxwell was one of the new arrivals. He'd come into the shelter with a paralyzed leg, so it might've been an infection or an injury. They weren't sure. He'd just been neutered and amputated the day before, so he was super scared and unhappy and crying, and I couldn't bring myself to leave the shelter without him.

I'll give Pepper a kiss but Maxwell is being a brat today, so no.