One important thing about creating or working on comics that I don’t think is reinforced enough is that you seriously need perseverance. That may seem fairly obvious, but there’s a difference in theory and action. Working in comics can be like working in a vacuum sometimes. You can spend a lot of time and effort without getting any feedback, any praise, any response. The nature of entertainment nowadays means there is a wide variety of choices, so it may take some time for your comic to get notice. But during that time, your mind can play horrible tricks on you. Frustration and panic can start to set in causing you to blame yourself and others on why your comic isn’t getting noticed. You start to doubt your ability and think that maybe your comic is horrible. At this point it becomes easy to think to hedge your bets and maybe focus on other things. Play it safe and put comics to the side for awhile.
Recently I was in Las Vegas for a Star Trek show. I figured since I was a big fan of Star Trek and Comics that surely there would be other people like me and I could easily sell my book to them. As the long days worn on, and the sales trickled in, I began to get depressed and frustrated and started doubting the whole comic thing all together. So at the very least I decided to pack up my table and just enjoy the show. So I was walking around with my mother (she’s a big Star Trek fan too) looking for the dealer’s room head, a guy named Richard, to tell him I was giving my table over to the local Star Trek Fan Club to use. So we’re looking around for Richard and my mother blurts out “There he is,” as she points to a table that actor Richard Herd (http://www.richardherd.com/) was sitting at. I was embarrassed by the mixup but my mother kept talking away with him. Then Mr Herd noticed my comic in my mom’s hands and he asked to see it and ask what was it. I explained how I came out to the show to promote my book and about the trouble I had of selling it at the show. Mr Herd then launched into a pep talk explaining that I need to keep at. That nothing breeds success like success. He’s a total stranger showing more belief in my book than I had all weekend.
So needlessly to say I took what he said to heart and my next show my sales really picked up and I like to think that was partially due to my positive attitude to the whole matter.
David Doub was a IT professional in the Dallas-Forth Worth area for the past decade, but after several turns in his life he’s going back to his first love, comics. Come read David’s journey has he tries to make it as a writer and creator in the comic industry. The only companion with him on this journey is his cat Jordon, who happens to like the taste of paper. 
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I agree with you, sometimes its just to easy to feel underappreciated. Sometimes its just to easy to give up, but we have to keep pushing and keep writing. Even if the first book is complete bollocks, the more you write the better you will get. Sometimes you just gotta have a little self confidence. I’ve been feeling a lilttle frustrated, its hard to get the rock moving. Reading this gives my spirits a little lift.