Should I join the Air Force & if I do, could I still pursue my Graphic Artist Dream?

Hello to all from Yahoo. I recently just graduated college from Indiana University with a Bachelors in Media Arts & Science. I've had a dream in pursuing a career as a 2D & 3D Digital Artist (specifically cartoons), but times are so rough right now to where I honestly can't. I'm financially in a situation to where I need to support my family and fast before life goes sour for them, no one is really hiring due to our economy right now, and I'm at a slump in wanting to just work instead of train in my field of becoming a Graphic Artist. I come from a family who has a military background (Great Grand Father was a Tuskegee Airman) and my mother has always told me that the Air Force is such a unique and great experience that will really get me to focus, and at the same time continue my dream as a Graphic Artist. I've heard great things from friends as well who've been in the air force and recommend that with my background in computer work, I should check into it as well. But what do you think I should do people of Yahoo? Continue my Graphic Artist training and hope that someone will pick me up in the industry, or should I receive intense training from the airforce and continue that training as a Graphic Artist?