That’s the real reason it takes a long time to finish the art in a comic. As they say, art is never finished, only abandoned. But I hear legends of comic book artists with weekends off and vacation time!! To be honest, if DC gave me another six months to complete the book, I would have taken every minute of those six months to draw and redraw, futzing away until the deadline. Isaac: Our pace on Under the Moon has been typical for me in my relatively short comic book career. That was probably the most helpful thing she said early on. But when I asked for examples of what the other artists in our line were doing, Bobbie told me they wanted me for a reason and to trust my instincts. I thought of maybe tailoring my style to look more like those other artists, even. Honestly, when our editors first talked to me about the book, I instinctually thought of a handful of artists who would do a good (better?) job. Lauren: How do you see this particular job of illustrating a graphic novel? Because not only are you getting “direction” from me, but shit, Catwoman already existed before we came along! How do you put all that aside and find a way to dive in on your own? But it seems as if in the comic book world, there is perhaps a slightly different…starting place of assumptions, since I kind of got to tell you what to draw. As a writer, and definitely not an artist, I was trained to always, always let the artist do his/her own thing with little input/guidance from me.
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