If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it's being true to their nature... that's what takes a long time to learn.
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I think comics have far more potential than a lot of people realize.
The comics work is very slow, and it basically involves working for sometimes years in isolation and not knowing how the work is going to be received.
Comics is all about making it believable and helping people to get completely lost in a fictional world.
By and large, I think that comics work seriously hard. Many have other jobs as well, plus you never really switch off, so you're always working.
There are still some people out there who believe comic books are nothing more than, well, comic books. But the true cognoscenti know graphic novels are - at their best - an amazing blend of art literature and the theater of the mind.
I think the genre of comics sometimes overtakes the medium, and people assume that they are kind of frivolous. If you have a good, strong story teller, they can be as affecting as any character in literature. Period.
Comics are given serious attention now and I'm quite surprised. You see them reviewed in major newspapers and exhibited in serious museums. I wouldn't have predicted it.
I continue to be disappointed that people don't try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics.
In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.
Let me tell you, writing comics is as hard as anything I've ever done - for me, at least. I'm now officially in awe of guys who can crank out multiple books a month and maintain a high level of quality. Comics are completely different than any other medium I've dabbled in.
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