I have lots of thoughts about why comics is really great and interesting as a medium, but it’s not like I ever sat down and made a pro/con list of comics versus art/writing/whatever else I might have decided to pursue creatively. I think, more than anything else, it is just that making comics seemed more accessible and feasible because I happened to be aware — through forums, various webcomics, Livejournal, etc — of many online comics-making communities and those communities were open enough that it was easy to get feedback and encouragement. That’s important when you are not very good and just getting started.