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Alex Segura · Mar 4, 2025

The "every comic is someone's first" fallacy...

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You hear it all the time, either as a reader or creator. “Every comic is someone’s first comic.” Or, “you need to write this as if it were someone’s first comic.”

For the latter, it’s often taken to mean “write the story simply” - i.e. introduce characters with an overabundance of clarity and emphasis, explain everything going on as it happens, and make …

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