Here’s an idea I’m just going to throw out there, considering it’s 2012. If you can draw and you have the equivalent brainpower of a creative six year old, try making up your own characters. Then draw them doing interesting things. Post those stories online, develop an audience and charge $75 to sketch your own characters at cons.
Scott Kurtz may be a jerk from time to time, but he’s a very SMART jerk. And as far as this particular situation is concerned, he’s absolutely right.