Being given credit for one's work sometimes means as much as getting paid. Posted: 18 December 2018 at 8:36am | IP Logged | 7 I also pushed for Chris to stop crediting himself as 'Author', since I felt we were BOTH the authors of the plot, and to stop crediting me as 'Artist', since Terry was every bit as much an artist as I was.Įventually we settled on the 'writer/co-plotters/penciler' credit, which was a tad cumbersome, but at least accurate. I had to push hard for my co-plotter credit. Posted: 18 December 2018 at 8:33am | IP Logged | 6Īs I said, for decades the control lay with the editors, who mostly started as writers and who, in too many cases, considered the artists to be subservient to the plot-even when they were partly or wholly creating that plot! Don't forget, Steve and Jack may have been doing the extra work of plotting, but Stan did a lot of extra work too-editing, art directing, company cheerleader, world architect-and none of that got mentioned in the little credit box either! Aware of what he himself brought to the table, Stan probably thought the credits of 'Writer' and 'Artist' were enough, simple and clean. Imagine if Adams put all that amazing work into stories that were actually good! Stan Lee's scripting was SO entertaining and really held the burgeoning Marvel universe together, I have no problem giving him equal credit on all the books he did. Neal Adams returning to Batman or Superman should have been the biggest news in comics in decades, but because he wrote the stories himself, they're overall not that great, and his writing is derided. That may have shifted in the last couple of decades as the writer seems to be the star these days and artists are often interchangeable (how many modern collected editions have you seen lately that have 4-or 6 or 10!-different artists?). Just based on the time it takes to do the work, one might say that the artist is more important than the writer.

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