Sometime in 1998 I started creating a simple comic strip about two emoticons living in cyberspace called Punc & Mark (as they were made from punctuation marks). It wasn't anything elaborate. I didn't actually "draw" it, but used an old image editor from Microsoft.
I was basically just messing around, but I posted it to my "home page" and told my friend Joe Mezzina about it. He dug it immediately, and made all sorts of suggestions. I created more episodes and, after a while, he and I were collaborating on everyone one. So I gave him a byline.
For all its graphic simplicity, it actually took off. I created a new site, byteus.com, and submitted the comic strip to all the comic strip ranking sites I could find. We received a lot of praise and awards--even got one from the Museum of Technology in San Jose--and we had a solid reader base.
Then I decided to get more creative. I started a new comic strip called Grey Matters. I did ten episodes and suddenly between it and Punc & Mark, I got burned out. I decided it was too much to keep up a regular strip, let alone two, so I retired from the comic strip "biz".
I sold the byteus.com domain a while back, so don't go there looking for any more comics. :)