Comic book historian
Arlen Schumer (author,
The Silver Age of Comic Book Art) and
Randolph Hoppe (The Jack Kirby Museum & Research Center) present their theory that, just like a film's director, not its screenwriter, is considered its true author (
auteur in French), so should a comic book artist be considered the auteur of any comic book work done in collaboration with a writer (or a script in any verbal form) and therefore a de facto co-creator and co-author, with the credited writer, of that work. Joining them are editor/publisher
John Morrow (
The Jack Kirby Collector), comics scholar
Charles Hatfield (
Hand of Fire), and auteur theorist
Craig Fischer (Appalachian State).
http://www.comic-con.org/cci/cci_search_results.php?strShow=33&strRec=4270
