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I’m a writer who has been eager to write a comic for awhile now but has absolutely no artistic capabilities whatsoever.

I love to write and would love for a chance to write a comic. If there’s anyone willing to work with me (though I admit I have not done this type of writing before), I’d be willing to collaborate on just about anything. I can come up with a story, or I’m happy to work with you on your story idea, or we can come up with something together, any genre.

I have been reading the other post about correct formatting for comic writers just so you know .

I would *ideally* like to collaborate with someone who just wants to make something we can put up online, if it ends up any good that is.

Anyways, that’s I think about all I have to say. Though if anyone has any tips about collaborating, I’d be happy to hear them

my advice, and this is a big one: don't wait for an artist, get going on concepts and short scripts straight away, you don't need to have found an artist in order to get your side of the collaboration down on paper. you're more likely to find an artist if you have work you can show them (and it's the same vice versa). So get to scribbling... right now!

im in the same boat, looking for artists that will work for free for a share of the profits that might not come. Thats a big commitment for them to make im learning. So ive just been writing and writing like the guy just before said. Also ive bitten the bullet and am actually paying a rather good freelancer, who's rather reasonbly priced to work on a page by page basis as i can afford them. We are working on a 7 page mini that im going to use as an advert for my project to give out to punters at comic book shops and artists and the like at conventions.

The only other idea i had to find somone to work for peanuts was to stalk the halls of art deartments at the local uni but i was worried i might be arrested lol

Thank you! I will definitely take the advice!

Speaking as an artist (and a writer) I can say this is good advice.

The fairly decent artists take time to work on their art. They've spent hours weeks and years finally tuning their knowledge of human anatomy, architecture and so on. Anything that needs to be drawn they need to be an expert on how it is drawn and designed and functions.

I personally spend about 12 hours on a single page of art (pencils to inks - no color or letters) - and that's a minimum. If the amount of detail goes higher in that page my time spent can go higher. (The exception to this was my online comic where I had only 9-12 hours each per page of art for all 4 phases outside of the writing :pencil, ink, color, and letters. Unfortunately quality suffers when you do this...)

That's a huge amount of time to invest in someone else's project unless they have backing, a publisher, a gameplan, a way to pay the artist so he can pay his rent and buy food while he does nothing but work on your project, and so on.

My basic page quote usually puts me at about $2 LESS than my local minimum wage per hour.

I've even paid color artist's myself to work on my lines. I can color but I do not consider myself to be remotely as professional a colorist as I am a line artist.

That said, anything you write is a good thing. (I'm in writing mode right now myself... although I'm doing a true blue prose novel.) Having material to entice an artist with is a good thing.

If you're the next Neil Gaiman or Geoff Johns, and the artist reads your script (see the thread about formatting comic book scripts) and thinks your story is amazing you might get a partner or an artist to work for next to nothing.

But it's all in what you do. So write, little writer monkey, write!