| Posted: 15 September 2011 at 4:33pm | IP Logged | 11
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JT, I don't imply the necessity of a writen script, but the structure and matter of a story needs to be there to use as a guideline for the art or you just get senseless (most of the time action) scenes. Now i can imagine a writer/artist who thinks first of scenes, does the layouts for them, and only in a second time build a story. I hope he would have more than just action scenes, maybe some deep, moving, full of signification scenes. Yet, even with this method, even if he draws preliminary art before having built the full story, that doesn't mean that he isn't a writer. The Anglo-saxon world has that word of "story-teller", used to describe lot of different things, particularly in comics: plot, words, art... But all those things have a comon objective: To build and tell a story. You ask if the writer is necessary. To build a story is necessary, to do more than action scenes is necessary, if you don't like the word writer, then use the words plotter and dialoguist. To have a plot is absolutely necessary, to have dialogues is almost always better than doing silent issues after silent issues, excepted if silent issues are part of the series concept. Frankly i'm not covinced that so many creators would be abble to keep such a concept interesting for long. Keeping all this in mind i will say that even silent issues have a writer, because by writer i mean the architect of the story way more than the guy who put the ink on the paper, who writes the words. The dreamer, not the secretary. If this writer/dreamer/architect has a clear (and disciplinate) mind he can, i suppose, directly layout the whole story has he has it in his head without even put a drop of in on the paper, without writing a word. But the words, the ideas are in his mind, he knows what he does.
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