Re: List FAQ (was Re: DAVID WORLD PRESS NEWS LETTER)

[Jim Drew / Ciao! Publications <ciaopubs>]

From: Jerry Stratton <jerry>

>>DO:	Discuss how to make comics -- techniques for drawing, inking,
>>	writing, coloring, and lettering.
>
>GUTTERS is not even just about making comics. It's about drawing and
>illustrating comics. Even discussions about writing are technically
>off-topic, except insofar as it applies to illustrating. So discussion of
>writing a script would be off-topic--unless the discussion was about how to
>illustrate what other people write.

Of course, if you can discuss to how-to of comics writing without including
discussion of comics drawing, then you aren't discussing *comics* writing,
but just writing in general.  A thin line, to be sure.

(And somewhat in parallel, discussions about spot illustration techniques
could be said to technically not be about comics, at least not in the
McCloudian sense.)

>(On the page below, there's more than a hint of annoyance at the amount of
>discussion on the net for writers and the lack of such for illustrators.)

Let's see: the bulk of the content on the net, especially in the earlier
years, was textual and only textual.  Writers write text.  It's something
of a no-brainer that writing about comics making would come from people
experienced in writing and writing comics in particular.

Jim