Do What You Can Do Well

In a creative field (in all fields, really), it is great to be a one-man task force. When you do all of the work yourself, you are only accountable to you and you are working with people you can trust. You also happen to get all of the rewards and glory for your work.

The one problem with being a one-man show is that few people are good at everything. Within the world of comics, there are countless people who can draw, but have nothing to say. There are plenty of people with something to say and no ability to draw it (like me). Even when looking at writing alone, there are people with great ideas and no delivery and there are people with a beautiful voice and nothing to accompany it.

As far ass I'm concerned, people need to accept their limitations and move beyond them. Whatever you can do well, do it. But don't try to do more than that. If you're a writer who can't draw and there is a drawer who can't write, then rather than each one creating a subpar comc, they should combine their efforts to make one fantastic comic.

If you can come up with interesting ideas for your writing, but you're about as interesting as a history textbook, then draft a piece with your ideas and work with somebody who can give them life with their words. Sharing the by line is not a shame. A shame is creating an inferior work because you want to do it all.

If you simply cannot find somebody to partner with you, then by all means don't wait forever and never share your work. But if the opportunity presents itself, certainly don't pass it off. It could be the partnership of a lifetime.