It was quite a shock to be therefore, to discover that writers of SF don't regard writers of comic strip as Real Writers. A touch of the Captain shouting at the Lieutenant, who therefore shouts at the Sergeant, who shouts at the Corporal, who shouts at the Private, who kicks the dog. I personally find American superhero stuff unreadable.
Comics suffer from their name.
Comic implies funny, and while there is a lot of humourous stuff around, there are also serious issues to be discussed. I know that the majority of readers of this article are not comics readers so relax, this is not lecture time. I don't see myself as a crusader for comics. This is one person's experience in changing, not so much genre, I still consider I write SF albeit of the soap-opera type, but medium. I've swopped text-only for heavily illustrated words.