Amanda Conner

Why doesn't she do interior art anymore? The artists that do interiors for her comics are always way worse than Amanda.

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Lazy I’d guess or too expensive

As I recall, she mostly just doesn't want to. It's a lot of work and she doesn't like the grind of having to keep up with a monthly book.

Do any comic database sites list when artists do the interiors seperately from just doing a cover?

if you're as big, respected and accomplished of an artist as amanda why would you submit to the grind of monthly comic illustration? that's an insane amount of work and you're literally working for peanuts. big name comic publishers work their illustrators like dogs and the pay is ridiculously low, that's why all of the "greatest" comic book illustrators stop drawing the comics themselves because what incentive do they have to waste their time and energy when they can make a lot more money with other illustration work? artists like amanda are better off drawing graphic novels and publishing them through GOOD publishers so that they can make the money they deserve

It’s not just her, Big 2 basically killed all their late 90s early 2000s generation of interior artists by refusing to pay them better. Soon all of comics will just be interesting covers and the cheapest interior art you could get off tumblr/twitter

Has Conner been doing graphic novels?

Because doing interiors is a 24/7 grind, which sometimes includes no weekends due to artists falling behind constantly. There is a reason why DC/Marvel are getting more artists from Latin America or other places with lower costs of living, where the page rates they pay aren't seen as a pittance.

This. it’ll all just be immigrants and art school grads that’ll be in big 2 comics for 5 years before going somewhere that pays

Reason 300 why manga is kicking comics' ass so hard, those fuckers can draw 20 pages a week without ranting on how hard is to work and how they'd rather just do covers for books that look drawn by children inside.

Don't mention manga. Comicfags will start crying about how they all work themselves to death despite plenty of evidence proving that's bullshit.

>american artists are just lazy

Sure user. It’s not the fact that its more financially viable to do indie work than make 150 a page on something you will never own

>be Mangaka
>able to write and draw whatever you want as long as it sells
>no censors, no political handwringing
>you own your art, get paid a salary and a portion of the proceeds
>can go on hiatus or release whenever you want
>can’t get fired from Twitter
>if your story is adapted you’re paid for that too
>if it’s reprinted or collected you get paid for that too
>you can just go to a different publisher if you want

Why would you ever want to work in American comics?

Her husband and collaborator just announced on Twitter the other day that they are interested in doing more Power Girl comics.

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unlike manga, which is super detailed and realistic

>Why doesn't she do interior art anymore?
It's "doesn't do interior art FOR ONGOING MONTHLIES." Conner's a strong artist but she (like Erica Henderson) never mastered the last hurdle of a professional illustrator: learning how to do what you do but in less time. If you look at Henderson's portfolio, it's head and shoulders above the absolute crap she did on Squirrel Girl in an attempt to streamline production (e.g. no backgrounds if she could avoid drawing them). And the same thing with Stjepan Sejic whose DC miniseries quietly disappeared from solicits a couple years back.
Conner will tell you she nearly damaged her hands (i.e. like what JLA/Avengers did to Perez), but it's cover for her embarrassment at making it into the big leagues then choking. Minis are easier to handle because the monthly deadlines aren't the same. Notice how never once did she illustrate her husband's Jonah Hex?

Fun fact: Darwyn Cooke was a friend of Palmiotti and he drew him in one of his Parker books.

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>Reason 300 why manga is kicking comics' ass so hard, those fuckers can draw 20 pages a week
Most of the popular mangas are done by mangakas who have assistants paid by the publishers. If DC was ready to pay assistants for Amanda to streamline her work a little, maybe she'd do more interior art.

We've known this for a while. DC turned them down when they pitched mor PG.

>Those fuckers can draw 20 pages a week without ranting on how hard is to work
They also get paid dogshit, work inside an ecosystem where there are other anonymous artists whose job it is to clean up their work, and most are accepting the dogshit pay because they hope some day they'll get to pitch their OWN book to one of the big publishers in hopes of making a living wage from it.
You want to go out like Miura did?

her disgusting toilet fetish got her blacklisted from the industry (except for covers)

That was a while back though, this is just confirmation they're still holding out for it.

Her what now?

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>>can go on hiatus or release whenever you want
only Togashi is allowed to do that, everyone else would get blacklisted from the industry if they tried it unless they already had a major hit.

the retard is referring to convention sketches she's done of a couple of superheroines suffering on the can

Could those not just be on the day commissions? Feels like something I would've noticed before.

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berserk, one piece, every gundam manga, Attack on titan, Jojo, etc have all had several month hiatuses

If she'd been born 15 years earlier Conner would have been the pride of Penthouse Comix alongside Adam Hughes.
Yes, all the top line manga whose creators have the publishers by the balls can get away with that. Something that was incredibly popular like Sumire16! to the point of being adapted to live television, their creator got told "wrap it up we don't care any more" because he wasn't a power player

> After Gargoyles, the two began to work together regularly on Vampirella for Harris Comics. The audience roared with laughter when Jimmy told a story about writing one of his first scripts for her where the first page was Vampirella sitting on a toilet. When he asked Conner what she wanted to draw that was her first response. So Palmiotti crafted a story that opened with the toilet scene splash page and we'd later find out, towards the end of the issue, it was because Vampirella destroyed a demon by eating it.

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she hurt her wrist and so now it takes her a long time to draw and is painful for her