Forum: Writers


Subject: Why don't (more) artists want to collaborate with writers?

JohnSlaughter opened this issue on Jul 31, 2011 · 8 posts


JohnSlaughter posted Sun, 31 July 2011 at 5:48 PM

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I'm working with an old friend* who's a writer. He's an absurdist, like Dr. Seuss but for adults.

We decided that I would design the site, but we would find other artists to do the illustrations.

To make a long story short, we found an artist with the perfect style.  The artist declined to join the project. We happened to see his work on another site and discovered that he tried to write his own absurdist stories.  They're simply horrible.  Absurdism is like Jazz, it might sound like random notes, but some do it better than others. 

I see so much amazing art, graphic novels, comics etc--and the stories are so lame it's sad.  

Is it an ego thing?  A greed thing? An anti-social thing?  

 

I'll ask him if I can post some of his work here... if the TOS and all the rules will permit.