Not Comics: Death Of The Creative Class

A bunch of you have sent along this opinion piece by Scott Timberg at Salon about the shudder, heave and ongoing collapse of what some pundits thought would be a kind of super-bohemian class of creative people springing up around North America and the world as the Internet started to become ubiquitous 10 to 15 years ago. I imagine that a lot of comics people will find a great deal that's recognizable in the article. That's my main problem with the piece, actually; its broad characterizations flatter everyone that's ever made anything or worked in a video store for a couple of years into thinking that they'd certainly be living the dream if it weren't for a vague conspiracy of corporate interests and amateur seekers of free. In fact, it's sort of an odd article in that it's hard to deny its main claims -- that a middle class for creative people and entrepreneurs working in those same general areas has been blasted away -- but it's also difficult to accept its vaguely-stated support arguments, endorse its scope or feel a lot of sympathy for some of its examples. Still, it's worth a read if only for its recognition of this particular struggle. Comics could use a more honest dialogue about who profits and why.
 
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