What does "ultimate success" mean to you?

I think ultimate success for me, is being able to earn enough money wit my comics to work full time on them. Right now i'm in high school, but i think i want to spend the rest of my life drawing stuff.
I may be a lttle young to have made that kind of decision, and i realize it can't be easy but i think that's success.

What does it mean to be successful?


Is it fame? Tons of views, likes comments?! 
Is it fortune and being rich?
Is it possibly just the good feelings you get seeing people enjoy your comic.
Maybe it is being published and printed? 
Maybe being published ONLINE and paid by a comic site to make your comic?
Having lots of people come to conventions just to meet you and get autographs?

If I can make a living, do some traveling, and live abroad for a month or two (modestly) for some time just off of my novels and comics, I would consider myself successful. 

I would like to have at least 500-1K subscribers on Tapastic, Webtoons, Instagram. Nothing drastic, but no longer obscure.
My idol was Bill Watterson. I never read Calvin & Hobbes piecemeal in the newspaper, but read all the comics in book form all at once. As a kid I wanted to make book collections of my comic strips like he did.
Not really an 'ultimate' success, just modest success. 

"Ultimate success" in life is, when you can live the way you want to and don't have to worry about money.

I mentioned this in the discord chat, but for me personally, I would like to quit my day job so I can draw comics 100%. At least I know I will be able to eventually... after I retire, but I would kind of like to start doing it sooner than that. :)

That's just the ultimate success though. Before that there are many small successes for me... such as earning more followers, more patrons, views, etc.

I think it's a combination of things, but it's also first and foremost, subjective. A person can be very successful monetarily with their comic, but never feel they achieved what they set out to do. Then there are people who never become famous, but are extremely happy with just making it to the end of their comic.

For me, it's making enough from comics to work full time on it.

ultimate sucess for me would mean my comic , the world i made up and worked on becomes a cultural icon , like TMNT and etc , that everyone knows of

Do I get to answer also? :D :D

@Christopher Of course!

success for me, in this moment is to get my book in the hands of 2500 people. I like to set small goals as opposed to huge sweeping crossover event goals. When I reach that goal i'll focus on getting it in the hands of even more people I ultimately want to have merch, action figures related to Broken Planet.

@Red22Studios
Not bad goals to have, both big ones and smaller ones. If you could pick any publisher, who would it be? Or are you aiming for self publishing

I’d publish myself. Get a small warehouse to hold the books and merch and ship them from there. Websites like kaBlam and such take too much from my sales.

@Red22Studios I see, I feel similarly about the work I'm doing. Figures and other merch would be really cool, maybe someday! lol That stuff is expensive to make these days. I LOVE to have a figurine for each of my characters. OAO

I haven't looking much into Kablam or printing just yet, I'm only on Chapter 1. Do you have any suggestions on what has worked for you?

@ArtCrumbs I was selling my 50 page book for about 7.99 and only getting about 3.50 per book profit. They took that much to do the printing and shipping. I am still conflicted with how much to charge for a book that size.

@Red22Studios I feel that, I sold some books of an ashcan copy about 6 years ago and my profit was razor thin, like 1.50 a book? I didn't print very many and used a local printer which cost me a bit more, but it was a nice quality at least. Hopefully some day I can print again. Graphic novels usually sell for more anyway, I mean a full tankoubon can sell for 10$ to 20$ depending on size, publisher and number of pages. If they all sold, then I wouldn't worry too much about the price.

Hmmmmm

Ultimate success to me is knowing that my comics can make a change in someone's life. I want someone to get excited to see a new chapter or episode of mine and I want my worlds to be a safe place for those who want to escape. I want people to forget their bad or hard life even if it's just for a moment. Money is nice and all, but I do love the feeling of knowing I made a difference in just one person's life.

@daisam This is a really nice one. Definitely can relate to it.

yea im gonna go with what @daisam said

Honestly, I'd be happy to have a small cult following that all enjoy my comic as much as I enjoy creating it.

Also to complete my comic, or at least the first season would be a huge success for me.

@Rapphirica I second this notion too! I need to finish my stories which is something I'm working toward! Finishing stories are important too!

I'll declare "ultimate success" when I'm able to quit my day job for comics full time. If I become super successful off the back of my comic, that works. If I hit the lotto and can work full time on comics that way, I will also accept this.

I just love making comics. Added bonus when people enjoy reading them :D

To have people excited to read your work.