APE IN A CAPE: "Make Your Own, Then"

APE IN A CAPE: "Make Your Own, Then":

kirailabs:

gailsimone:

kirailabs:

Look, I'm sorry, but I honestly don't think this is as mystical as it sounds, here.

I can't draw a lick. But there are people on 9gag and elsewhere making comic strips seen by thousands of people with clip art and stick figures.

Yes. Seen by thousands. As examples of how they suck or just because it's a stupid story that happened to them. I'm assuming, at least, that you're referring to those comics made with 'MemeGenerator.com' or whatever it's called. They're half-assed things that take maybe five seconds to write, and they would never be considered anything worthwhile, even (especially) by the people who make them.

Exposure isn't always positive, despite examples like Rob Liefeld inexplicably continuing to get work as an artist despite his inability to draw, apparently just because he got a job once.

That's quite missing the point. ANYTHING done badly is going to be bad.

But there's a very successful strip out there, that's hilarious, that is nothing but the exact same dinosaur strip art having a different conversation every time.

http://www.qwantz.com/index.php

This thing is hysterical, I'm a huge fan, I bought the book, and there's not a lick of artistic talent involved.

Again, if you don't have the key, you find another way in.

The difference there is that Ryan North *can* draw, and he's an incredible writer. You either have to have talent or work pretty hard at something to be successful at it. In this specific case, he works hard at writing. Come on, you're a writer too, are you trying to say writing isn't artistic? :)

What difference does it make if he CAN draw if the strip is the exact same clip art every time (which I love, by the way). I mean, I CAN do a set of perfect acrylic nails, but if that has no bearing on the comic at hand, I don't see why it makes any difference at all.

And writing can be visual. It doesn't HAVE to be visual.

I strongly suspect Fred Hembeck couldn't get hired doing straight superhero style art. But he's a magnificent cartoonist.

This isn't a catchall answer, but it should be obvious to all…PLAY TO YOUR STRENGTHS. If you can't draw, you need an artist, or you need to make up for your lack of an artist in some other way. You need a workaround.

No one will give you all the answers, and if you have excuses, no one will solve them for you. You HAVE to at least take that much initiative.