A doer and a talker

In all art fields, in my opinion, there are doers and talkers. A doer is an author, who could not put his craft in words, while a talker is a critic, a pundit, who dissects and examines the art. Both are necessary to the art field in question, but they do not always go hand in hand. Sometimes, when a doer tries to be a talker, or vice versa, when a talker wants to become a doer, you get awful results, not what you'd call a car crash, but more on the level of an 18 ton wheeler crashing into the Titanic. Other times though, you get wonderful results, and this is what I'd like to talk about today.
I am no talker (the awful metaphor I just wrote should be evidence enough.) I'm a doer, and I'm good at it. I can't explain how I do what I do, and I can't explain why I like what I like, but if it comes to coming up with the thing, I'm there. (The "thing" being comic strips about innocent children and their imaginary friends, of course.) But I certainly can admire someone who can do both well, people like Ping Teo.
In all the time I've been involved in webcomics, I've seen Ping become an important voice, who can either draw her own comic, lampoon the webcomic cliches, volunteer, define, and analyze webcomics. Her blog is what I find specially interesting, because her views on what works and what doesn't, what comics are irritating and which ones aren't tend to be pretty accurate. At the very least, we seem to be on the same aesthetic grounds. She can explain you why a good sense of storytelling is important, or how an artist's style helps or hinders their comics. I envy her, but I'm glad that a doer can also be a talker.
I enjoy seeing Ping get this level of respect among us because among other things, Ping is the very first person to ever write to me about CYS. I didn't even have a comic up back then, just a keenspace account, and she quite dilligently and kindly helped me out set up my comic. She took pity on me and encouraged me, the first words of webcomic support I heard from someone who wasn't my family, my girlfriend or the voices in my head.
Now go to bed,
-adis!
P.S.- Remember I told you Questionable Content was a fine comic? Well, I told you that but I'd only read the latest strips and a few from its very early days. However, I just spent something like three and a half hours reading through the entire archives, and I'm as well versed in the QC-verse as you can be. Anyway, I can now confirm that yes, it is a fine comic indeed. Just don't ask me why. I'm not a talker.