Here’s what I’m looking for, for my comic:
An artist who:
1) Can draw well
2) Can create accurate drawings from words
3) Has at least the *TINIEST* interest in my comic
4) Isn’t in it for the money.
I mean I know it’s cool and hipster to say you’re not in it for the money, but some people actually MEAN it. Don Hertzfeldt, for example. Just watch ‘Rejected’.
Not that artists shouldn’t get paid…of course they should.
But if you’re drawing FOR the money, not the craft, then you’re not an artist.
You’re a mercenary.
I haven’t been put in a position where I could prove this, true…but if by some MIRACLE my website got amazingly popular, and people started saying “Hey…I’ll give you X dollars if you give me a good review”, I’d tell them to go fck themselves.
If you don’t believe me, well let me paraphrase a favorite paraphrase:
“You know what? I don’t fcken give a sh1t.”