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==== Category:Writers who illustrated their own writing ====

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:''The result of the discussion was:'' <!-- Template:Cfd top --> '''keep''' <small>([[Wikipedia:Non-admin closure|non-admin closure]])</small>. [[User:Marcocapelle|Marcocapelle]] ([[User talk:Marcocapelle|talk]]) 07:50, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

:* '''Propose deleting''' {{lc|Writers who illustrated their own writing}}<br />

:'''Nominator's rationale:''' Trivial, [[WP:NONDEF|non-defining]] category prone to detritus. Open-ended category would logically include a bazillion comics creators. While many writers illustrate their own work, no one from [[Dr. Seuss]] to [[Clive Barker]] is commonly categorized as such outside of navel-gazing Wikipedia. [[User:Animalparty|--Animalparty!]] ([[User talk:Animalparty|talk]]) 06:07, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

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* '''Keep ''' per above. There aren't many comics people here, & ideally they should be in a sub-cat - doesn't a comics one exist? [[User:Johnbod|Johnbod]] ([[User talk:Johnbod|talk]]) 16:05, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

** '''Comment ''' It would be rather unusual. In comic books, typically one person serves as the writer and provides the [[Script (comics)]], another serves as the main [[comics artist]]/[[penciller]] and provides the illustrations, a third one serves as the [[inker]] who retraces and finalizes the drawings, a fourth one is the [[colorist]] who adds colors to the black-and-white works of the penciller and inker, and a fifth one serves as [[letterer]] responsible for the [[speech balloon]]s. Most writers don't contribute to the artwork of a story, and most artists don't contribute to the script. The exceptions include people who filled more than one role in the production process, such as [[Carl Barks]] (both wrote and illustrated most of his stories from 1943 to 1966, wrote stories for other artists during his semi-retirement), [[Jack Kirby]] (mostly credited as a penciller from the 1930s to the 1960s, started both writing and illustrating his own stories in the 1970s), [[Bill Everett]] (mostly wrote and illustrated his own stories from the 1930s to the 1950s, mainly credited as a writer in the 1960s), and [[Steve Ditko]] (mostly credited as a penciller in his hired work for various publishing houses, writer for some of his more "personal" works such as [[Mr. A]]). [[User:Dimadick|Dimadick]] ([[User talk:Dimadick|talk]]) 07:08, 11 July 2019 (UTC)

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