Comment by mattmanser
3 years ago
There's no money in comics, it's like saying "be a rock star".
Most comic book artists are (in financial terms) absolute failures, regardless of talent.
Surely for art, the route to replicable success is graphic design, animation, computer game art, etc.? Something the dumb ML AIs you see today probably won't ever be able to replace, you'd need some sort of AI capable of creation to do it.
"There's no money in comics, it's like saying "be a rock star"."
There's no money in western comics.
Successful manga artists regularly earn millions. Simply put, western comics got left far behind in storytelling techniques, creative ideas, because it got stuck in superhero #12831.
Even in the US, the vast majority of top selling 'graphic novels' are mangas, not comics.
> Successful manga artists regularly earn millions
"Successful" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
Most Mangaka make less than minimum wage.