Any Artists need a Writer?

[destriarch]

One thing that's hard to miss about indie comic projects is that there are a lot of writers around looking for artists, and not many artists who need writers. So I thought I'd wave around and say "Hi there, I'm a writer, anybody need one?"

I'll happily write to practically any genre but I'd prefer something at least semi-serious in nature.

Ash

[raven]

It's so much easier to write than to draw the story some days. I do both, but I;m not a comic author. I lack the skillz.

[jayvee]

The reason most artists don't need writers is because they can just sit down and draw whatever they want, with no sense of direction or thought. Having a writer gives them focus and a lot of people aren't serious enough about their work to care about such things... But writers are. Writing is about precision, art is about freedom. So THAT'S why there are more scribes looking for pencils and not the other way around.

I can do both and lemme tell ya, good writing's a hell of a lot harder to pull off than good drawing.

[geneticfreak]

jayvee said:

The reason most artists don't need writers is because they can just sit down and draw whatever they want, with no sense of direction or thought. Having a writer gives them focus and a lot of people aren't serious enough about their work to care about such things... But writers are. Writing is about precision, art is about freedom. So THAT'S why there are more scribes looking for pencils and not the other way around.

I can do both and lemme tell ya, good writing's a hell of a lot harder to pull off than good drawing.

I kind of disagree. I have been a pro writer and an artist, please don't devalue one side. Good writing is not harder than good drawing, if it was there'd be a lot more artists than wannabe writers.

Here's the situation, in comic fandom, a lot of people want to break in. Whether you admit it or not, people find learning to draw a lot harder than they think it is to string words together or just forming ideas. So they take the short cut and just assume that they want to be a writer. Funny thing is they don't want to be a writer really, they just want to be working in comics. Believe me, as an artist, it is terribly annoying how many times I've been burned by wannabe writers since I was a teenager.

Now that I'm older and had experience being a professional writer myself, I know the people to avoid. Of course being ratted out of payment is a different issue. There are talented aspiring writers who still does that.

[jayvee]

You say not to de-value one side, but the question here was, "Why are there so many more writers looking for artists than the other way around?" Yet you call wanting to be a writer a shortcut...? Que?

[geneticfreak]

No I was just saying the reality of the situation. There are writers who wants to write and actually write, and there are wannabe writers because they think it's easier to be one. The one with the image of being easier gets the attention of those who want to take a shortcut. They are equally difficult, like I've said I've been paid to write. You can't possibly deny that, ask any web cartoonist how much email they get about this subject. I'm not putting down writers, I'm pointing out that there are wannabes who flood the market that is making it hard for the actual dedicated ones. It is truly disheartening, if you check the thread for the first installment of JMS' Words Words Words at Newsarama, you'll see it.

Editors and other artists will support my assertion. I'm not putting down writers though, that's stupid. I hope this clears this up.

[jayvee]

Oh, I was just asking to ask.

I've just recently got serious about doing something in comics in the last year and I've had about seven wannabe artists flop on me. Only one's stuck by me and we're almost done putting together the first issue of THE ADVENTURES OF MISTER MISADVENTURE. Wooo.

[dragonaces]

I think the only reason I'd want an artist is just so I can have someone to collarborate a project with. I have a lack of confidence and fear of failure and I feel that if I had someone working on a project with me I could get over the hump and my own inhibitions. Plus my ability to network would increase through that person's grapevine of connections.

Or just because I'd like to see what my ideas would look like in pictures.

[geneticfreak]

Just keep trying. It's the most effective way.

[raven]

I've found being an artist is harder, because I have standards that are higher than they probably should be for my skill level. <lol> But writing comes naturally to me, and I find wordplay as much fun as art, and easier to get the results I want. *shrug* It could just be that I'm wierd