Why do those who draw the stories take more credits...

[Hector]

...than those who write them? There are many famous artists who have never written a line themselves, but it's very rare for one who only writes scripts to be
well known/widely discussed.

[jubalpomp]

Aug 3, 2016 14:38:10 GMT Hector said:

...than those who write them? There are many famous artists who have never written a line themselves, but it's very rare for one who only writes scripts to be
well known/widely discussed.

I suppose it's because you can easily understand whose the drawings are, but it's difficult to understand whose the scripts are.

[Scrooge MacDuck]

True (though that point is becoming less and less valid with INDUCKS and the Internet in general). I do see an exception or two, like Guido Martina and Vic Lockman. (Okay, Lockman drew a couple of stories at the end of his career, but it's not for them he's known.)

[squeakyboots]

With Disney comics specifically, I think it's partially because story credits weren't ever printed in those comics up until I think the Gladstone era so I guess no one really knew who the writers were back then. Apart from people like Carl Barks (Who as far as I know, both wrote and drew his stories) who were more easily recognizable.