With the crowdfunding campaign in which you have to, not just to write, but also to become a publicist, a designer, a salesperson, an editor, etc., your workload gets bigger and has a profound effect on you daily life with your "other" job and the family, who support you regardless how bad you are at juggling everything.
At this time you doubt everything. Am I good enough, is the book good enough, will people like it, will it do the veterans justice,... It makes you rethink everything about yourself. The lack of sleep, doubt, worrying, disbelief, fear,... Is it worth it?
And then, one day, you get a reply from a comic retailer to one of your e-mails, in which you were telling them about the comic-book and the importance of the veterans of the Lincoln Brigade, and the dangers of a man like Donald Trump and his hate mongering speech.
And then you remember why you are doing this and why it's all worth it, the lack of sleep, the fear, the worrying, ...everything. It's all worth it. Because you're fighting the "good fight" and because people like that were the reason you started this story in the first place.
"The danger is not the far right taking power. The danger has been the left for the past 100 years. Every communist country is left wing, the Nazis were left wing socialists, Obama and Hillary are left wing socialists.
I am not worried about people like Donald Trump, they talk tough but have no power in this nation and haven't for decades. I am worried about the ever expanding government welfare state and entitlement spending.
No one is entitled to anything from anyone else. You want it, you earn it. That is exactly what all comic store owners have to do."
