Comics

A good article by Virginia Postrel about how the art of comics has become mainstream and accepted by the art world. An Alex Ross exhibit is showing at the Warhol Museum in NY.

A nice interview with Libertarian cartoonist Peter Bagge of “Hate” fame.

In trying to relaunch every single title in their line as a #1, DC once again misses the point entirely. People have largely walked way from comics because they are tired of being abused like this by the publishers. They read comics because they loved the characters and wanted good stories, but like Hollywood the publishers relied on crappy stars and bad sensation instead of getting down to making solid, dependable products.

The people running these companies don’t even know what good is. So they just rely one the same old people to crank out the same old stuff that is resulting in declining sales. I don’t now if they will ever get that, before its too late.