Creating comics is bit like writing: it is very lonely.
Most of it is in my case mostly sitting and writing, or reading background research(fact and fiction alike) or just being in ones thoughts.
For artists it's hours upon hours of finding referencematerial, models, pictures etc and doing sketches and trying out various angles and trying out styles of drawing painting and so on.
And like writers they train and hone their talents endlessly, finetuning and polishing stuff while doing rough drafts, going out of their comfort zone to improve their art.
But damn it's plenty of alonetime.
In worlds of art, whether graphic or writing, it is quite lonely and not just on top.
Dont get me wrong I love collaborating and the times I say the artist saves the script by his/her amazing talents making the story work it is not hype.
I know it works vice versa too, but I have been really lucky.
Yet this kind of creative work is mainly solitary. Musicians have gigs, actors have an audience but us comicsfolk? So far not so.
Our field is more personal and individual, closest I can now come up with is authors. But they have audiobooks that can be(theoreticly) enjoyed as a group too. Audiocomic might come in the future but still...
(this also shows why there is IDOLS but not Comicbook Idols. No, Stan Lee reality "who wants to be a superhero" does NOT count. Creating comics isn't all that good selling point to TV)
And it's not even a matter of fame or popularity. Humans just are social creatures.
Most of my collaborations are done by endless e-mails, phone calls and old school mails of scripts, sketches and finished pages and then we might get it published, by someone, somewhere.
At some point.
And most of the time there's just us and our passion as different con's are relatively few and far between.
So on monday I jumped once I got to Vandercon that is Jeff VanderMeer and Anne VanderMeer on a tour of Finland and europe.
They are continuing the tour and I for one loved it: the lecture, the banter.
So if you ever get a chance to meet up with them, use it.
New weird, old weird, scifi, fantasy...now I have even more ammunition of the mind regarding steampunk and squids.
And stuff.
And do chack out their websites: Jeffvandermeer.com and weird tales
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