In the words of Chris Ware...."comics are hard"
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
The scourge
This is the horrible truth my brothers.....the art of the comic book is a difficult and thankless act. You will lose friends who do not understand why you hide in your room. You will isolate yourself from a world that thinks you are mad. Not until your story is bastardized by some greedy suck up producer from hollywood into a pale sham of itself will your family and coworkers think much of you. Do they not read? They do not. Do they not value your hard work and dedication? No. They are drones of mediocrity and they desire your creative demise...only then will they have any peace.
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Strange dichotomy between how comics are consumed and how they come into being. I see our culture moving toward a paradigm where comicbooks are revered as high art and away from being denounced as trash, and yet it hasn't made creation any easier. The fact remains that today myth is recycled in our culture. Nothing new is generated, and yet we still crave our stories to be told in new ways that are different and surprising from the ways they have been presented in the past. The shock of the new is king.
Amazing quote! I feel the same way he does...unfortunately.
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