Visual and musical artists are happy to break the mold and occasionally embarrass themselves exploring new delivery vehicles for their art.

But serious authors are terrified of ridicule taking even a little departure outside of the novel, let alone experimenting with other means of conveying the written word.

No one who won a Pulitzer would ever contemplate writing a VN, or doing something similar, even as a flex (which it would be). Why are the so insecure compared to other artists?