Importance of Collaboration When Making a Comic Book

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village, my name is Dan Head. And today, we're going to talk about how to self publish your own comic or graphic novel. So who makes comics? Do you have to be a professional to make comics? The answer to that is emphatically no. There are professionals, and it, your not, as an amateur comic writer going to suddenly leap into their ranks and start writing the X-Men the first week after you write your first script. But, that doesn't mean that you can't participate in the medium. Through the internet or through your local art college or your local comic book shop, you can find collaborators and make comics. If you draw, there's absolutely no reason why you can't sit down and experiment with sequential art in your, on your own time. This, for example, is the first comic that I ever wrote and self published. I don't draw at all. But, I hired a guy via the internet from the Philippines to draw this. I paid roughly four hundred dollars for the art. And then, I paid maybe another seventy dollars to run a hundred copies. "