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That became a big time in comic books because it's when people were starting to break out into independent stuff, the market was getting choked with speculators and everybody was trying to do their own trick covers.

— Todd McFarlane

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

A great comic-book cover occurs when it gets a potential reader to pick the book up and start thumbing through it. That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention, and persuade them to try the issue out.

— Adam Hughes

I came to one of the first Comic Cons in 1985, when it was just people trading back issues of comic books.

— Scott Aukerman

It got to the point in the late 70s and early 80s that I was spending so much money buying golden age comics that I could only justify it if I got work in the media.

— Bill Mumy

I think too many comic book covers are way too busy, crammed with far too much information, both visual and verbal, that just becomes a dull noise.

— Chip Kidd

Comics were going down for the second time and here, all of a sudden, came this thing and for the next fifteen years, romance comics were about the top sellers in the field; they outsold everything.

— Gil Kane

In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.

— Garry Trudeau

People are really paying attention to the comic-book genre, and there's a lot of time and attention being invested in these projects with a wonderful sense of quality control.

— Mahershala Ali

It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board games and other types of merchandise.

— Alan Moore

People love their comic books.

— Jessica De Gouw

✗Opposing Perspectives

Comics fans want new stuff that looks exactly like the old stuff. It is hard for the publishers, and even the audience, to change something.

— Greg Rucka