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The term comics long ago became obsolete and inaccurate. it merely defined the content of the early joke-based comical strips. sequential art is a more accurate description of the form. i first suggested it because i believed something needed to be done to correct the feeling of inferiority by artists and writers in this field.
-Will Eisner
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The Term Comics Long Ago Became Obsolete

Will Eisner
The term comics long ago became obsolete and inaccurate. it merely defined the content of the early joke-based comical strips. sequential art is a more accurate description of the form. i first suggested it because i believed something needed to be done to correct the feeling of inferiority by artists and writers in this field.
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There are a lot of good comics, no doubt, but as far as the quality of the comics goes, i think what you have is a bunch of situational comics - there are black comics that work only black crowds, gay comics that do only gay crowds, and southern comics that only work down south, and so on with asian, latino, indian, midgets, etc. the previous generation's comics were better because they had to make everybody laugh.
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The lovely thing about writing comics for so many years is that comics is a medium that is mistaken for a genre. it's not that there are not genres within comics, but because comics tend to be regarded as a genre in itself, content becomes secondary; as long as i was doing a comic, people would pick it up.
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I don't really have any great interest in writing for movies. comics, to me, is a much more promising field. there's still a lot of ground to be broken in comics, whereas movies, to a degree... i don't know. they're a wonderful art form, but they're not my favorite art form. they might not even be in the top five of my favorite art forms.
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