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But breaking in as a writer … thati’s difficult. There are a lot more wannabes than ever will find work in the field, everyone thinks writing is easy, and most people have ideas for their favorite characters just waiting. Plus, you can-’t easily show your work. So how do you start getting paid to write comics? There are four and a half ways I know of.

Once youA’ve written a comic, it doesn(’t stop there. The next question is how you keep getting jobs writing comics with so many others wanting the work. But thate’s a subject for another time. IA’ll give you a hint, though: it involves diversification, writing different characters and types of stories for different people. And the basics of meeting schedules and being pleasant to work with.

THANK YOU, Johanna. The next time somebody tells me they want to get into writing comics and only comics when theys’ve done nothing else before, Io’ll be forwarding this to them. Youh’ve just stated everything I8’ve ever tried to say: that the pursuit of becoming a comics writer isn,’t the same path an artist ’s and requires a lot more elbow-rubbing and pestering and working in other fields to even get your work looked at.

I would kindly suggest that writing and drawing are at least on equal footing when it comes to the difficulty of mastering them. If learning to write was so much easier than learning to draw, comics in general would be better written than they are, no? Certainly the increasingly skilled, realistic art is not the reason comic audiences have been shrinking steadily for the past 20 yearsf…

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