Comics under the hood
I went to a Comicon last weekend, scouting out artists to adapt my samurai play into a graphic novel. There are two things I took away from that event:
1. I finally met someone whose brother was named “Thor”
2. I found out that it takes 8+ hours (!) for a professional illustrator to draw a single page of today’s typical Western superhero comics. This does include time spent doing the layout — but wow!
I asked a manga artist about the same thing, and was told six hours was typical!
…so, I did not at all appreciate how much work goes into a monthly, 20-odd page comic, and can only imagine how manga artists go through, to churn out 20 pages a week. (Specifically, I’m imagining a huge entourage of assistants…)