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On Our Golden Age of Comic Art
Aug. 23rd, 2017 08:10 amI remember thinking, when webcomics first got popular, how miraculous it was that I could just go *find* vast amounts of really good art and consume it.
Now, with even more webcomics and with RSS, it's even better - I can wake up to my fresh art feed daily. I imagine this is what Pandora is like if you're into music. I don't care about getting lots of songs delivered to me, but character-intensive art and stories? Sign me up!
I am slowly understanding more of what good comics are supposed to be. And looking at the folks whose work I read, so are they. I'm not the only one getting a vast amount of amazing art delivered -- the artists whose work I read also learn from each other, and they're clearly improving thereby. Character development, writing, color, visual character construction, pacing, subtext and coordinating all these things and bouncing them off each other... It's amazing how far their collective technique has come in the last few decades.
It's hard to overstate the importance of "what if we all just communicated more, and had more choice about with whom?" The first graphical web browser happened in 1996, a bit over 20 years ago, and it's clear that the wave of social change from it is nowhere *near* over.
Now, with even more webcomics and with RSS, it's even better - I can wake up to my fresh art feed daily. I imagine this is what Pandora is like if you're into music. I don't care about getting lots of songs delivered to me, but character-intensive art and stories? Sign me up!
I am slowly understanding more of what good comics are supposed to be. And looking at the folks whose work I read, so are they. I'm not the only one getting a vast amount of amazing art delivered -- the artists whose work I read also learn from each other, and they're clearly improving thereby. Character development, writing, color, visual character construction, pacing, subtext and coordinating all these things and bouncing them off each other... It's amazing how far their collective technique has come in the last few decades.
It's hard to overstate the importance of "what if we all just communicated more, and had more choice about with whom?" The first graphical web browser happened in 1996, a bit over 20 years ago, and it's clear that the wave of social change from it is nowhere *near* over.
