MARVEL

Creating a comic book, like making a motion picture is ultimately about telling a story. The nature of the comic book and motion picture industries puts a certain amount of pressure on an author to see his or her vision through to the end of production. The creation of comic books and films is very much a collaborative act. Comic books like the motion picture medium require many roles to complete a project. Simply look at the title pages on any comic book and you see credits for a writer, penciler, inker, colorist, letterer, editor and editor-in-chief. The same can be seen as you watch the credits roll at the end of a movie. A few authors however have made an effort to control the comic book and film making processes by establishing close visionary relationships with their collaborators... Will Eisner, considered a founding father of American comic book art, noted that- "The comic book form has suffered greatly because the discipline has been broken into an assembly line process. The..