| Posted: 29 June 2016 at 3:57am | IP Logged | 3
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To expand: in my early days working with Chris, which go back to the very beginnings of my career, I found myself often frustrated at conventions when fans would tell me how much they enjoyed some element of an IRON FIST, or a MARVEL TEAM-UP or -- what was that other book? Oh, right, X-MEN. In the majority of instances, the praise would be for Chris. After all, he wrote the books, right? I was just drawing what he told me to draw.So many people who claimed to be hardcore fans were unaware of the so-called "Marvel Method," where the artist works from a plot, not a full script. A plot which s/he is free to interpret as the visual storytelling demands. Then the writer adds dialog (as the artist sits back and hopes that dialog will actually fit what s/he has drawn). So many times, then, when a fan would tell me how much they loved some scene Chris had written, I would say "No, that was mine!" I'd usually point out that any "moment" that was purely visual was most likely mine. Of course, as the years went by, and I took on more and more of the responsibilities of plotting (to the point that I asked for a shared credit), I would be saying "No, that was mine" more and more often. And right about then is when I started hearing tales of how "Byrne tries to hog all the credit." sigh
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