Hero-Lore Anthology mock-up

yeah. OK, quick history of my property, Hero-Lore ([link])... Idea's been in my head since I was a kid. Started drawing comics of it in my teens (on college-rule paper, no less). Go to college and got some good criticism from fellow comic geeks, eventually leading to my attempt at making a real comic book, self-published. Looking at so much of what was out there in comics printed and distributed, I figured that there was worse crap than what I could draw - what could go wrong? Long and short; found an inker, got my Star-Wars-published friend to script issue #1 (based on my notes) and finished issue #1 in about a year. At the same time, I wrote, penciled, inked, and laid-out #1/2. Went to Comic-con w/ another local wannabe and had our own booth... he never finished his comic, while I printed 3,000 copies of the 2 issues. There we were at our very own Con BOOTH... I sold 3 copies and Diamond Dist (the only real comic book distributor) passed on the book, which sits in my garage (and is for sale on my official H-L site as an extra) to this day, 7 years later. Wrote some short stories to get the Hero-Lore ideas out of my head... next thing you know, I'm 25,000 words into a novel. Took me a year and half to write it, then editing, illustrations, and shopping it to agents took another year and a half. Now I have an agent shopping the first novel, 'Shards of Destiny', to publishers (which may never bite) and I've self-published (& illustrated) a short-story anthology of Hero-Lore Tales that leads up to the novel... and not sold 15 copies yet (but who knows, if the novel sells, it could all take off at last). I'm working on Book II and plan at least 5 novels while I get on with the rest of my work/life...
Having done both comics and novels, I can say that both are equally hard in varying ways... however, doing a comic as a one-man-band is daunting as hell and very time consuming, so tougher from that standpoint. Still, as a writer there's a lot of things to understand to make a book worth the paper its (presumably) printed on, including plotting, grammer, pacing, etc... but then a graphic artist has to know design, layout, illustrative techniques, lettering, cover-design, etc etc.. so, yeah, both are way hard, but the comic's harder to do alone, I'd say - or at least more time-consuming... Hope this helps you win the argument, and gets you to buy a copy of one of my books