No. You don't get to do that. You don't get to conflate the two.

Comic artists are people who draw. They used to make about $850 a page, but the going rate is now under $200 for the indies because they're directly competing against Korea and Slovenia.

Comic writers are people who write. They've never made much money. Consider: Stan Lee didn't get fucking paid for the Spiderman movies until he sued. In the comics industry, it's the writer who pays because for a brief shining moment there was a chance that someone in a secondary market would pick up your writing. Steve Niles - couldn't get "30 days of night" made as a script, so he paid Ben Templesmith to paint it up, so the rights got sold, so it became a movie.

The apocryphal statistic is there are more players in the NBA than there are working screenwriters in Hollywood. The screenwriters have an advantage over the comic writers, though - nobody ever expects a screenwriter to chip in on the movie. If he does, he becomes a producer. All the little indie houses you know? I've got quotes from them on turning my writing into comics. A comic in your shop costs me about as much as a new car in my garage.

I hate to beat you down on this but your speculation does not trump my experience.

And you're wrong.