"They are more important than you"- Bobby Curnow on art and writers

Recently, Bobby "What Editing?" Curnow posted his thoughts on the creative process on his official Twitter account. People have wondered about the inner workings at IDW for a long time and these two tweets reveal quite a bit about their processes.

Curnow, who as the comic editor of a major publishing company openly called writers merely a tool for artists,holds a very strange view of writers who actually want to work for an all-ages comic. Rather than the writer providing direction for an artist, a writer is seen as less important than an artist, which usually treats their writer as an equal partner. In a pitch, the most important part to Curnow is the art, which of course is consistently good in IDW's best selling Friendship is Magic comics:

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This recent development is bizarre because in the past, Curnow has previously bemoaned the lack of writers who want to work on the best-selling, but shockingly unpopular with creatives series.

We at Horse News can only wonder why a man who makes his career working in an industry of creatives would so flippantly disregard the work of so many, strangely including even himself. All this single writer can say is that it's no wonder new blood is so hard to come by in the comics. But who needs improvement when you've got sales?