Superfuck You--Doc Sigil

First off: this is not about Grant Morrison. I am not making fun of him here or anything. I did that elsewhere in a comic about Mark Millar going to prison. Go read it.

This comic is about a lot of you reading it. I am now addressing that segment of the population that wants to make comics. Let me ask you something: when was the last time you actually wrote or drew a comic? Not just sat around talking about doing so or doing sketches or whatever? When was the last time you fucking wrote a full script or drew a full comic?

Those of you who are writers who said anytime within the last three weeks can leave. Same with the artists who said within the last three months. The rest, sit the fuck down and listen, you slippery shits.

Now I realise I’m not exactly a comic book pro or anything, but I do have one advantage towards being one over you: I make fucking comics. I do my part. I write a lot of scripts. Ask my friends. They’ve read them. I’d have more completed comics out there if it weren’t for the lack of reliable artists who guess what? Want to draw comics for a living, but can’t seem to deliver any pages.

Let me ask you something, okay? You say you want to make comics for a living and yet you don’t do that in an effort to reach that dream? Are you fucking dumb? Sorry, I didn’t mean that. I meant are you fucking retarded?

Doc Sigil is about you. The people who talk and talk and talk about being comic creators, but all you do is talk and jerk off. I’ve met a lot of you and you people crack me up. You people are stupid and deluded about your shots.

Now I’m not deluded enough to think that because I churn out three to seven scripts a month that I’m necessarily going to be writing tomorrow’s best selling title or anything, but let’s be honest here. Who has a better shot of breaking into comics? Johan and I who have two comics completed that can be found with ease online or you who says you have an idea but nothing else?

All I’m saying is if you want to make comics then fucking make comics! Comic publishers are not going to somehow telepathically learn of all that amazing talent you say you’ve got no matter how much you wish is so. You are not Bryan Hitch! No one is going to wait for you to complete a comic. You’ve got to prove yourself.

Take your hand out of your pants and just make comics. Don’t worry about people reading them, just do it. Practice. Hone your craft. Get better. You may still not make it, but you’ll be a lot closer than before.

Chad Nevett
Listening to The Hives
April 25, 2003