Go, Read: Morrison on Saving Comics

Grant Morrison has one of his typically entertaining interviews up at IGN and on the last page he's asked about Robert Kirkman's recent video exhorting creators to make their own comic books. I'd quote extensively, but I always groan when people do that because the idea is for you to go to the article rather than for me to re-present their material here. But I think it's worth reading.

In general, I think comics just experienced a long August of defensive recriminations after a particularly weird summer and a "Is that all there is?" San Diego Con where the promise of comics' recent trends is beginning to be supplanted by the reality of those trends' unfolding, including the notion of who is likely benefit and who isn't. The result seems to have been a greater than usual number of people telling other people how they should do things that I suspect comes as much from 1) a desire to be taken seriously as a person who gets to say things like that and/or 2) an attempt to make the case for how the prescriber does things by asserting its specialness, at least more than it is an engagement with some actual issue or even an overwhelming desire to see that specific reform take hold. I think if you see Kirkman's tape as some sort of assault on or indictment of certain ways of doing things you're likely to have a negative reaction; if you tend to see this kind of thing as a the kind of friendly advocacy that naturally comes from someone doing successful work, you probably won't get worked up at all. Morrison doesn't seem agitated in the slightest.
 
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