![]() ![]() But there's also a choice companies such as Marvel and DC have made, which is to eliminate art directors, and at the same time, editors are skewing more and more toward words rather than pictures. "In this day and age, artistically, that is incredibly rare." "In a two-year run on a book, a writer is going to be there every single issue," Jurgens says. And in today's world of pixel-perfect reproduction and fan demands for enhanced realism, artists cannot keep up with a writer's pace. It's often said it takes a writer 12 seconds to type "A thousand soldiers come rushing over the hill" and it takes an artist 12 hours-likely more!-to draw it. But mostly it's the writer in that role." "That's not to take anything away from the artist and clearly I've worn both hats, sometimes at the same time. "The way this industry works, typically the writer has that bigger role in shaping the storyline and direction of the book," Jurgens says. Make no mistake: Whereas comics is story plus art, in 2022, "story" primarily means the writer's story. Because by and large, both art directors and even editors with artistic chops are gone from the comics landscape. The problem today? Both that kind of contact, and that kind of solution to a problem many wouldn't even recognize exists, are gone. ![]()
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