murrakmr

brevoortformspring:

Any fan is free to offer whatever criticism he or she wants to. That’s entirely  right.

But we are free to act on or to ignore any of that criticism that we feel like. That is our right.

And especially when a particular title is selling well, the argument from people who don’t like it that “nobody likes it” is clearly nonsense. Somebody is buying all of those comics. And I am confident that our readers are not so stupid nor so shallow to purchase issue after issue like lemmings if they don’t like the book.

I will certainly dump on people who come here and feel entitled to be belligerent, or who feel entitled such that their opinion speaks for all of comicdom, when clearly it does not.

I answer the questions I get in the manner in which I get them, for the most part.

And it;s my Tumblr, so I’ll be as flippant as I like. And you can read it or not read it, your choice.

One point is missing here: all art is commercial, all art is a product. Do you think Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel for free?  Did Picasso paint just for the hell of it? Rothko? Pollock? Hopper? 

Artists are romanticised in the media but they’re all doing it to make money and to view the work of comic artists (or illustrators) as inferior to ‘fine art’ in a gallery (whether you like their work or not) is an insult to their talent and the many hours they spend working on their art.