oh yeah I love Corben and Manara and that ilk, really very informative to my art early on... Am still a great admirer of their work. As far as myself being a professional, I've managed to sell quite a bit of my ceramic sculpture through the gallery venue and have worked professionally as a production artist(?) for Heath Ceramics in the bay area.

I'm actually putting together a weebly site of my work but have kind of stalled out on uploading any thing more recent than my work up to 10 years ago, If you want to check it out it's here... 

Hesitant to show people this site because I have yet to upload the work that I am most proud of (in particular my later sculpture and vessel work), in other words it's a WIP and should be considered such. At this point there's only 18 images there and I have about 20 or so more to add, not including my more recent obsession with Poser and 3d. Warning, my early work has a tendency to be a bit, ummm, abject or "biologically bizarre" I guess.

"I really wish I had never stopped photographing and drawing/painting. Damn Poser killed all that for me and having lost it in the past 20 years I just can't seem to find the MUSE for those methods of art creation (which is why I can no longer call what I do ART or myself an Artist).   :("

I can understand this, most Poser art I'm frankly sceptical of... My own included. That's why I spend most of my time trying to improve my modeling and other related cg skills. Making Poser imagery is fun but I think the creative meat and potatoes of it is self made content. Perhaps something to consider? Have to admit that CG is a very unintuative medium, there's a lot of tech involved and to learn before any artistic talent can begin to shine through. And the aging thing does have a way of softening the drive, whatever those motivations may be, to be agressively productive.