Picking a Partner

Now, even if you had penned a masterpiece of a comics script, you still can’t expect it to crash into that top 50 most read novels list if what you drew for a partner to draw it was only a mediocre illustrator. Never mind that I’m a writer—I’ve always maintained even then that the success of comics materials DEPENDED MORE ON THE ARTISTS THAN ON THE WRITERS. Again, my basis here is simple: even if the story was weak, there was a good chance that it was still going to be read if the illustration was good; then only when he was already halfway through the story or nearly finished with it would the reader realize that the writing was bad. But if it were the drawing that was poor in the first place then it probably wouldn’t matter if the story was written by Ravelo or Rizal—the reader would most likely just skip over those pages in search of better illustrated materials that didn’t hurt the eyes. And, let’s say that despite the horrible illustrations the reader still dared sample the first few issues, you can be sure that he wouldn’t be able to give up on it sooner or later, no matter how wonderful the writing