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.
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I think comics have far more potential than a lot of people realize.
The audience for comics has shifted dramatically. And the boundaries between books and fine arts have blurred. Maybe it's the globalization of fine art through the Internet - it's easy for certain groups to coalesce around a certain kind of work or medium.
In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.
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.
I think comics are really part of The Zeitgeist. They reflect back to us the issues that we're concerned about in the time they are written.
I continue to be disappointed that people don't try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics.
I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.
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, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal.
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.
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