From: [l s traz] at [delphi.com]
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Comic Writing: A Career?
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 95 10:26:16 -0500

You certainly can make a living writing comics, but you have to
be good, fast and reliable. To my mind, that requires
professional training, some dedication and willingness to be
part of a creative team.
  I recommend that you get formal writing training, such as a
journalism, creative writing or screen-writing degree (and
start using capital letters). I have an undergraduate degree in
journalism and an M.A. in creative writing and have taken
screen-writing classes. All have served me well.
  Your degreee of countro over comic art depends upon your
relationship with the publisher and the artist. In my scripts,
I include every detail that I think is important to the story
and any bot of my vision of how I see the art. Often, the
artist's vision is better and I appreciate that.
  Breaking in is damn difficult and worse now than ever due to
the lousy market conditions. The best advice I have is to team
up with an artist and do an ashcan for show and tell to
editors.
 
Len Strazewski
PRIME and PROTOTYPE from Malibu