u/Mental-Statement2941

Ever since we finally moved back to our home country, thing's haven't looked right for us. It's been 13 yrs and I still feel so SUFFOCATED by my home country to the point where I can't even imagine myself staying anywhere in the country outside the capital city. The Capital city which is filled to the brim with multiple cultures and is honestly the only place in this country where I feel at peace. I know though if I leave ill still feel like a foreigner but I have to try. I'd rather feel like a foreigner in a different country and feel like I can breathe rather than still feel like a foreigner in my own country and feel suffocated. Anyone else feel this way?

Writers feel undervalued and underappreciated because alot of artists keep saying "That anyone can write" and because of workload between the two "The writer isn't even that important".

With sweeping statements like "if the writer feels this way, they should just write a novel"

Artists feel undervalued and underappreciated because alot of writers seemingly underestimate how much time it takes to draw just a 22 page comic, alot of writers either scam the artist out of their fair pay or instead offer them so called "exposure". Overhyping themselves and their skills alot.

With that in mind, with all this toxicity wouldn't it just be best for the writer to learn how to draw and the artist to learn how to write, at least a bare bones criteria for entering comics since it seems y'all can't get along. Just have everyone be a Jeff Lemire or a Mike Mignola, both writing and drawing their own comics.

Do what the mangaka do??? (YES I KNOW THEY HAVE ASSISTANTS BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY THE MANGAKA CAN WRITE A GOOD STORY AND DRAW).

It's just so darn heated!!!

For context I'm from Botswana. A third world country which is very small (we're about 2 million). It has a non existent comic and art market and very few artists. (The few artists make more or less abstract art, the type you'd see in galleries).

So ofc for an aspiring comic book writer they'd have to hire an artist abroad.

How would that work though as I've seen that the standard page rate is in dollars. Now this is no problem but I have two questions.

1: Would said writer pay the same page rates as someone living in the US?

Would for example an artist in the US that charges 30 dollars per page charge the same for me and I'd have to cough up the equivalent of 30 dollars for a page in my currency?

1 dollars equals 14 pula (my countries currency)

In that case what would be in the thousands for you guys to make comics would be in the tens of thousands for just a 30 page comic.

Not complaining. Artists should ALWAYS ALWAYS be paid and it's unfortunate the circumstances but all we can do is suck it up and cough up cash if we want to make comics.

2: What if both the writer and artist live outside the US. Let's say the writer is from Kazakhstan and the artist is from Bangladesh. What's the usual arrangement there?

I'm sure there are cases of artists looking for writers but it seems rarer than writers looking for artists.

How does one even try to become a "freelance comic book writer" so to speak in the indie and creator owned space (outside of the big two)

Many writers want to bring their ideas to life and hire artists but I don't see alot of writers going "Hey, I want to bring other people's ideas to life, let me try and work FOR an artist". I'm sure they exist and I'm probably ignorant and ofc many writers strive to work for the big two?

How does one though become a freelance comic book writer?

What if you don't want to hire an artist but you want an artist to hire YOU!!! With that being your aim from the beginning?

Do you just build a script portfolio for artist's to look at....a portfolio of well tuned not drawn scripts?

What do artists look for in a script??

This is my first time on reddit btw, so I apologize if I come off as weird or if I'm not doing this right. Long story short I was born in Botswana (Southern Africa) and as soon as I was born our family moved to Northern Ireland where we lived there for 8 years. We came back to Botswana and i've been here for 13 years, been here ever since I was 8 yrs old. Im 21 years old now and any hint of irish (including the accent) has died off but I still dont belong or at least feel like I dont belong.

If anything because I grew up on the Internet, specifically a shit ton of geek culture like comics from the big two (Marvel and DC), Hollywood movies (especially blockbusters like star wars) and Science fiction and fantasy novels (like Brandon sanderson's, Game of thrones etc). All of which are appreciated here but not something available or are loved by the general public here.

and hung out with many well off kids in my country as well as foreigners (immigrants from Zimbabwe mostly) I haven't exactly assimilated well and Im more or less Americanized. I can't speak my own language as well as it makes me feel uncomfortable (I'm probably just a jackass and stuck up for even saying that). Even when just existing people can quickly point out that I'm not assimilated or that I'm foreign before I even open my mouth (or just assume I'm rich)

Alot of the people here even make fun of my accent with many assuming I lived in the United States, Australia or England. Though most chalk it up to "white accent" and make fun of it (from high schoolers to all my college classmates), many strangers can't even understand what I'm saying half of the time.

All this to say do I technically count or am i just stubborn at assimilation as most TCK's come back to their home country at around 15, 16, 20. Do I still count and if not is there a term for people like me???

This is my first time on reddit btw, so I apologize if I come off as weird or if I'm not doing this right. Long story short I was born in Botswana (Southern Africa) and as soon as I was born our family moved to Northern Ireland, where we lived for 8 years. We came back to Botswana and i've been here for 13 years, been here ever since I was 8 yrs old. Im 21 years old now and any hint of irish (including the accent) has died off but I still dont belong or at least feel like I dont belong.

If anything because I grew up on the Internet, specifically a shit ton of geek culture like comics from the big two (Marvel and DC), Hollywood movies (especially blockbusters like star wars and the MCU) and science fiction and fantasy novels (like Brandon sanderson's cosmere, George rr martin's a song of ice and fire, Leigh Bardugo's Grisha verse, Pierce Brown's Red rising etc). All of which are appreciated here but not something available to or loved by the general public here.

I hung out with many well off kids in my country as well as foreigners (immigrants from Zimbabwe mostly) I haven't exactly assimilated well and im more or less Americanized. I can't speak my own language as well as it makes me feel uncomfortable (I'm probably just a jackass and stuck up for even saying that). Even when just existing, people can quickly point out that I'm not assimilated or that I'm foreign before I even open my mouth (or just assume I'm from a very well off family because I speak English 100% of the time).

Alot of the people here even make fun of my accent with many assuming I lived in the United States, Australia or England. Though most chalk it up to "white accent", call me "whitewashed" or "British" or "Lekgoa" (white man in our language) and make fun of it (from random high schooler's in the bus to all my college classmates), many strangers can't even understand what I'm saying half of the time.

One time, an old lady on the bus of whom I wasn't even talking to ranted about how Gen Z dont appreciate their culture and are spoilt. All because she overheard me having a conversation in English with my friends, WE WERE SITTING AT THE FAR BACK OF THE BUS MIND YOU!!!!

All this to say do I technically count or am i just stubborn at assimilation, as most TCK's come back to their home country at around 15, 16, 20. Do I still count and if not is there a term for people like me???