How to Get Your First Breakout Hit as a Solo Creative

Andrew Folts
2 min readAug 4, 2021

August 4, 2021 — When stuck with average works, pick one, and take it past the point where anyone else would quit.

For the first twenty-nine years of my life, I kept trying to land a breakout hit, but it never happened.

No label ever signed my band, I didn’t get a full-ride to college, and I wasn’t hired by an NYC ad agency.

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Andrew Folts

Author of 365 Comics. Writer, illustrator, and barefoot runner slinging minimalist hacks for creative rebels.