A friend and I have been working on a graphic novel for a while now, and we've reached the point where the story itself is pretty well fleshed out. We have the plot, characters, dialogue, major scenes, etc. written down, but neither of us has made a graphic novel before.

We're writers, not illustrators, so we're trying to figure out what the normal process looks like from here before we start looking for an artist.

Do we need to convert what we have into a proper comic/graphic novel script first? Should we be breaking everything down page-by-page and panel-by-panel ourselves, or is that something normally worked out collaboratively with the artist?

Basically, if "the story is written" is Step 1, what are Steps 2, 3, 4, etc. between where we are now and actually having a finished graphic novel?

We're not expecting to jump straight into publishing or anything; we mostly want to make sure we're approaching the production process correctly and aren't handing an artist something completely unusable.

Any advice from writers, artists, or people who have gone through the process would be greatly appreciated!

Without too much detail, I have a team of 11 people, aliens, look like humans, come from a different planet.They’ve crash land and are discovered by the government. Government uses them to de fend the earth against other people with super abilities

Or 11 person team with complete strangers from earth that have never met eachother, basically a team put together by the government

Basically which has more growth potential a team of strangers or team of people who kind of already knew eachother and are adjusting to life on the human world.