Comments on: How important is writing, anyway? http://blog.newsarama.com/2007/02/06/how-important-is-writing-anyway/ The Blog@ Team and prominent comics personalities share what’s on their minds. Sat, 25 May 2013 03:49:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Mike Tucker http://blog.newsarama.com/2007/02/06/how-important-is-writing-anyway/comment-page-1/#comment-132165 Mike Tucker Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:55:23 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/2007/02/06/how-important-is-writing-anyway/#comment-132165 Three thousand years ago, people were digging Homer. Three thousand years later, people are still digging Homer--and in far more languages than ancient Greek. How important is writing? In Homer's case, important enough for people in every land, every culture and every tongue to remember his work, love his work, buy his work, and teach his work. Nobody teaches SPIDERMAN or BATMAN or any other Marvel's wonder-wizards in Japan, Spain, Greece, or Russia, but Homer is taught now and will be taught 100 years from now in Japanese, Spanish, Greek and Russian . . . and a few other languages. End of story: if you can tell a story without pictures, you are a true storyteller. Nobody hands out a Nobel Prize for Comic Books, and no one ever will. Mike Tucker Author and Counter-Terrorism Specialist Penang, Malaysia Three thousand years ago, people were digging Homer. Three thousand years later, people are still digging Homer–and in far more languages than ancient Greek. How important is writing? In Homer’s case, important enough for people in every land, every culture and every tongue to remember his work, love his work, buy his work, and teach his work. Nobody teaches SPIDERMAN or BATMAN or any other Marvel’s wonder-wizards in Japan, Spain, Greece, or Russia, but Homer is taught now and will be taught 100 years from now in Japanese, Spanish, Greek and Russian . . . and a few other languages. End of story: if you can tell a story without pictures, you are a true storyteller. Nobody hands out a Nobel Prize for Comic Books, and no one ever will.
Mike Tucker
Author and Counter-Terrorism Specialist
Penang, Malaysia

]]> By: RMC http://blog.newsarama.com/2007/02/06/how-important-is-writing-anyway/comment-page-1/#comment-72560 RMC Tue, 06 Feb 2007 22:32:17 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/2007/02/06/how-important-is-writing-anyway/#comment-72560 Homer? How would anyone know? I don't speak Ancient Greek-- he might have just had an imaginative translator somewhere along the line =) Homer? How would anyone know? I don’t speak Ancient Greek– he might have just had an imaginative translator somewhere along the line =)

]]> By: Dick Hyacinth http://blog.newsarama.com/2007/02/06/how-important-is-writing-anyway/comment-page-1/#comment-72417 Dick Hyacinth Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:00:33 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/2007/02/06/how-important-is-writing-anyway/#comment-72417 Hemingway, Homer, and Miller...an odd bundle of writers. Especially since most know Miller more as a playwright, a role which I don't usually associate with "vivid images using only words." But I haven't read The Crucible or Death of a Salesman since high school--maybe the stage directions were especially vivid? Hemingway, Homer, and Miller…an odd bundle of writers. Especially since most know Miller more as a playwright, a role which I don’t usually associate with “vivid images using only words.” But I haven’t read The Crucible or Death of a Salesman since high school–maybe the stage directions were especially vivid?

]]> By: jake saint http://blog.newsarama.com/2007/02/06/how-important-is-writing-anyway/comment-page-1/#comment-72369 jake saint Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:15:42 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/2007/02/06/how-important-is-writing-anyway/#comment-72369 The Art of Comics in "both words <i>and</i> pictures" <i>shocker!</i> or, <i>This</i> conversation again? Also: a writer who can't think in pictures should not be writing comics. The Art of Comics in “both words and pictures” shocker!

or,

This conversation again?

Also: a writer who can’t think in pictures should not be writing comics.

]]> By: Justme http://blog.newsarama.com/2007/02/06/how-important-is-writing-anyway/comment-page-1/#comment-72327 Justme Tue, 06 Feb 2007 14:49:01 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/2007/02/06/how-important-is-writing-anyway/#comment-72327 Flip side...there are too many artist who thin they can plot stories that are just horrible. Great art with crappy plotlines. But i agree with Byrne in that some writers are better than other, some artists are better than others and some dual talents should simply pick one - since they suck at the other. Granted a select few can do both art and writing but many cant and fail under the weight of a monthly comic. Flip side…there are too many artist who thin they can plot stories that are just horrible. Great art with crappy plotlines.
But i agree with Byrne in that some writers are better than other, some artists are better than others and some dual talents should simply pick one – since they suck at the other.
Granted a select few can do both art and writing but many cant and fail under the weight of a monthly comic.

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