I don't know. I didn't know what to make of the last part of "My Greatest Ambition." I felt like he was saying comic art was too easy. If the narrator was right, he was quite good. Did he understand panel to panel transitions? Probably. I felt like the adults cheated him out of money and were trying to convince him that some of their other comics might've been better. And he felt like comics weren't worth it because of a tour?! Factories aren't suppose to be INTERESTING!!!

I'm going to follow my dreams and become a full cartoonist, novelist, published writer, and, I don't know, something else for a day job. I'll just say that's full cartooning. Ha. No assembly lines for me! 

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Ditto that, Theo. I felt the same way about the story.

I personally, will probably start out like everyone else, since it's hard to individualize yourself from everyone else in the beginning. But I will work myself there. I will be an author, and a historian, if it kills me. So no, I shan't be like everyone else.

I mean, really, what is "Like Everyone Else?" In the story, the narrator makes it sound like "Everyone else" is a dreamer, and a cartoonist is a dreamless hobby, only for magazine submissions. 

In my own personal experiences, "everyone else" either wants to be a biologist or they have no idea of what they want to do in life. See, I'll quote from the story here, Part One (Since I lost the issue with part two NOOOOO)

"I was the only person in my class--probably the whole school--who wanted to be a comic strip artist. They were all dreamers. There they sat, the astronomer, the nuclear physicist, and the business tycoon (on the Stock Exchange), two mathematicians, countless chemists, and a handful of doctors, all aged thirteen and all with their heads in the clouds."

Of course, trying to publish your comic isn't sticking your heads in the clouds, I guess.

BUT I SEE THE AUTHOR'S POINT!!! He was just drawing for fun, found an opportunity, and got published. Cool. Then he decided he didn't want to be a comic strip artist. Cool. It frustrates me that the author kind of says that being a comic strip artist isn't a dream, but that's not what he's saying, what he's saying is that being a comic strip artist WASN'T HIS DREAM. I should've seen the conclusion coming, with the first paragraph and all...

"My greatest ambition was to be a comic strip artist, but I grew out of it."

He plainly states it there. BUT...

"They didn't know what they were talking about. Had any of them every read a comic? Studied one? DRAWN one?"

That's how I feel. AM I GOING TO GROW OUT OF COMICS?!?!

Not at this rate I won't.

So.... a little off subject, but I think that really it depends on what your persepctive or "Everyone else" is. 

I will probably end up like everyone else - a dreamer.