From SPECIAL GUEST VAULT CEO Damian Wassel: Toughest: the production, sales, and marketing cycle. It’s an elaborate bit of choreography between 6-10 people, 3-5 businesses, and thousands and thousands of retailers and fans. I don’t think it’s possible to appreciate the amount of work involved until you’ve done it. Best: holding a book in your hands that you’ve helped bring to life.

From Adam: HA! Toughest part: I have reduced feeling in the pointer finger of my drawing hand, and at the end of ALL “work days” it aches. Other than that this whole thing is a gift. As long as your team is solid there isn’t a thing about it that’s tough. You get up, you create with other creatives, and at the end of the day you say “I’ve made a thing” and you go to bed happy.

From John: The toughest part of writing comics is the periodic existential dread that crops up between projects. "What if I never come up with another good idea ever again?" "What if I'm never able to successfully pitch anything I write to a publisher again?" "What if pursuing comics instead of focusing all my energies on a stable job with a pension and benefits is going to haunt me in my older years?" "WHAT IF I'VE WASTED MY LIFE?!"The best parts are the writing itself, that period of pure creation when I'm putting together a script and feeling a new world take shape. Seeing the art come in, and the stuff you wrote coming to life. Getting a big box of comps on your doorstep, and seeing all your work take shape as a finished comic. And, honestly, just every time somebody reaches out to you and tells you that a story you wrote meant something to them.