Have Comic Artist Lost Their Prestige?
In a "time far, far away" Comic Artist were required to work in the city where the company was headquartered, at least that's what I've been told. My thoughts on this are, it added to the artist commitment and resolve, because for some it meant having to move, to leave what you know and live somewhere you may not be familiar with...Talk about a leap of faith. For the artist that welcomed the change and long with it the opportunity, I could only assume for such an artist,this created a feeling of elite status because if you lived in the city where you worked, then that could only mean one thing, "you've made it to the promised land,"- can I get an AMEN my comic brothers and sisters..?
- Have Comic Artist Lost Their Prestige?
This "land" is the home of every aspiring artist and writer, in this place posers were not allowed, and in the artist mind there is a sign that clearly states this metaphysically, "I am among the ELITE, you poser...yeah you with the 3rd grade grade jelly stained sketches, I see you...GET OUT OF MY HOUSE." Well maybe the sign is a little long and maybe it represents an infantile desire I have trapped in the recesses of my mind, me secretly desiring the will to muster up the courage to tell "unbelievers"(people claiming to be comic natives, but fall short of the mark by 99.995%) I see posing, trolling the comic isles with no intention to buy...
- We see you comic book poser...buy something ALREADY HUH!
However I digress, this is not about me, it's about the question (Comic Prestige), have artist lost that magic that once infected the hearts and mind of every pimpled faced bright-eyed teenage geek inhabiting the comic realm? In my opinion, since artist are now shattered to the winds and can now operate from anywhere in the world, it has changed the dynamic of artist working in the same studio and drawing inspiration from their colleagues.
For an aspiring artist, well I know for a few friends of mine the dream was to one day work for Image comics in their studio alongside the rest of the image posse...now such things are considered ludicrous because most artist who work for these publishers are freelance...there was a time when even that word (freelance) had prestige, it meant you were so good and your work was so in demand, that you could do work outside of the company that housed you...now freelance is synonymous with broke.
YOUR THOUGHTS PLEASE..!
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Comment by Charles on September 16, 2010 at 8:29am -
lol. you keep these post comig bro and i'll be here with my opinoins.
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Comment by Ron Kerronian on September 16, 2010 at 6:20am -
Charles, that one line "we may have the love, but it's the passion that drives some," makes a lot of sense, I can go in peace now...Keep the post coming.
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Comment by Charles on September 15, 2010 at 11:17pm
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I see the point,but the difference is the video game gives you the story, the hero and the mission and we live out that with the visual as an artist we have to do all the work, we may have a writer but you need the aritst to flesh out the visual and that takes a lot of energy and we look for that release in movies or other things, we may have the love, but it's the passion that drives some (me at least) if your in it for the money then wrong business, you need to have the love and passion and i belive then no matter what you are that prestige. when i becomes a job and the love starts to fizzle, those other outlets start to take over and then we lose track of time and then days go by and weeks and so on, so i feel we shouldn't have to have others to make us feel that prestige, we need to be that.
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Comment by Ron Kerronian on September 15, 2010 at 3:28pm
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Charles, you make some very sharps points there...I feel that the prestige is the self publisher, however I fear that most publisher fall away by the wayside before the prestige can be fully recognized...I fell we have to change that. Comics have become so legitimate these days that it is a shame that most artist give up on it before there dreams are realized...I know many are in it for the money, but think of this, most of use love or loved video games...playing for hours at a time often 8-10 hours a day...just as long as drawing a page a day huh?, did we do it for the money or did we do it for the love of it...how much more important is the comic book story in our hearts?
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Comment by Charles on September 15, 2010 at 12:36pm
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ok i'll be the first then lol. i think it's more of like you said the"i've made it" mentalatiy. i was one of those guys back then, but i belive it is more of the "i can do a comic myself" that has been more dominant. to be part of image was to be one of the elite, to work witj your favorite artist, but it was also a training ground and a boys club with the different studios, so it came down to who's clubhouse do you want to be in. i think the new prestige is doing your own comic. with the imternet and webcomics flooding the market it's no longer about the prestige, it is about self publishing and making your story the prestige. don't get me wrong i would love to be in the same studio with some of my favorite artist, but i love the comfort of being home and doing the exact same thing if i was in a studio. so, i think the prestige has shifted. thats just me tho.
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Comment by Ron Kerronian on September 14, 2010 at 10:34am
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I am curious to hear what everyone thinks, lets get this conversation started..! Who is the brave soul willing to go first?
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