Another spell of insomnia, triggered this time by a terrible migraine. Up for over 3 hours now, lying in bed idly, foolishly attempting to fall back asleep when there is clearly no use.
I never went to school for art or design. The latter I learned a great deal of while working at a pre-press and design firm. The former, from messing around mostly alongside artist residencies, meeting other artists, and much, much reading. Several “how-to” books helped develop my comix-making. Beginning with HOW TO DRAW COMICS THE MARVEL WAY, Will Eisner's COMICS AND SEQUENTIAL ART, Scott McCloud's UNDERSTANDING COMICS, and Warren Ellis' old COME IN ALONE columns.
I don't regret not going to art school because there is a tremendous amount of resources out there on all manner of craft and making of things. I do wish I'd gotten a few apprentices under my belt though. A stint with an independent fine artist, one with a comix maker, one with a writer, one with an indy publisher, heck even one with a podcaster or somesuch. All things that I'm sure would've helped steer the way for the weird conglomeration of practices that I've somehow managed to fall into and find myself struggling to perfect the ideal working model for.
It's not so much the craft that there's a deficiency of info on. It's more the “systems of operation” and the like.