From the Inspirational Thought Unit
I was shocked to read about Todd McFarlane's working style this week. Here's how he makes comics:
I think this is absolutely bananas...yet here's a guy who *deep breath* founded the most successful independent comics publishing company, launched a new Spider-Man comic that sold 2.5 million issues, created the character Venom, created Spawn (which is the longest running independent comic book series of all time), and I'm not even going to mention all of his other business ventures.
This is clearly a guy who knows how to ship. He found a way to make comics that worked for his weird brain and just went with it. Yes, his writing has been described as "clumsy, unsophisticated and pretentious." Luckily, his art made up for that shortfall. The thing I want to point out is he didn't let something like not being able to write very well stop him from doing the thing he wanted to do.
I'm not saying you shouldn't master your craft. No, you should always be striving to improve, just make sure perfection isn't stopping you from finishing something.
(image via @michelfiffe)
-Jake