To be fair, both him and the creator of Attack on Titan are bloody geniuses at writing, and that's really more than anything, the meat and potatoes of a comic. Art is like the fancy decorative herbs that dresses up the whole plate and makes it look that much more impressive. If you can completely and utterly suck bat balls at artwork, yet still get mega famous and have anime adaptations off of your kindergarten scratches, it should really show us all where the great majority of our attention should be in our craft.
The following is said in an objective way, I'm just not one for sugar coating anything. From what I've noticed trawling comics made by fellow novice creators, is that the ones that do best within that collective skill level (art and writing) are the ones where the creator is significantly more skilled in writing than he is art. The reason being is not only do you have cringe free dialogue, natural drama and tension, decent pacing and etc, you also have the right angles and perspectives despite the artwork being utter chicken scratch. For example just skimming Hajime's one shot that was linked here shows that he was thinking about his story in a very cinematic way, even if the story at the time could've been easily mistaken for 13 year old deviantart fanfiction.
Point is, they pretty much know how to properly do comics before their artistic skill can even catch up to marketing it for them. Where as what a lot of artists do is draw the same close up face for 5 different panels in a series of verbal diarrhea. It could be an epic heartfelt speech but it's so goddamn boring because nothing changed. The face is constipated through out every panel and there's no other body language, the artist avoided it because they didn't know how to draw the rest of the body. Writers don't care. They know the right angle that works for the dialogue but they don't care f it looks crap because it'll look even worse if they only utilize their comfort zone knowledge. It completely screws with the writing.
Sorry for the semi rant, had been thinking about this a lot lately after having a debate with non comic artists who insisted art was the most and only important factor in a comic. It might make you pick it up but if the story doesn't sell you, you don't care. All it takes for a badly drawn but extremely well written comic to take off is for people to become so emotionally attached that they start recommending it to all their friends and it explodes through word of mouth. If something is legitimately amazing, it'll always stand on it's own. The artist picked up One Punch Man because the artist himself stated he enjoyed the series, it was already becoming extremely popular on it's own. Think about it. A professional artist wouldn't illustrate a random novice series unless it was a legitimately profitable project.
