Question of the day

[james_davis_nicoll]

Should SFWA consider opening membership to writers of comic books and graphic novels?

[Wow, that was a dull way to frame that. Please add "Why or why not?]

Inspired by a discussion on one of the blogs that I read regularly, which I will not name for the moment so that people will not run over there and have their reactions influenced by the discussions that have already occured.

Comments

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

Hard to say. What sort of pay grade does one have to get to be a professional graphic novelist? Does inking count?

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

If it's a writers' association, I would imagine that anyone who writes a comic book script or story would be eligible, but not someone whose contribution is solely in the visual aspect (art, inking, storyboarding, etc.).

[avram]

Just like you can qualify by writing the screenplay for a movie, but not by being, say, the cinematographer.