What puzzles me is that if one takes scanned images - and with them legal matters - out of the picture, the community becomes nigh-indistinguishable from fora devoted to book criticism. Those have been around for a long time, they have been much harsher, and the few writers who engaged in direct complaints (hello there Anne Rice!) were rightly ridiculed.
Is it because the comics community is so small and, like you say, easy to get into professionally (in the sense of doing it as work and, if lucky, money) without having to learn other layers of professional conduct, that so many of its creators don't seem to realise that once a work is published, it's out of their control in terms of reception?
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What puzzles me is that if one takes scanned images - and with them legal matters - out of the picture, the community becomes nigh-indistinguishable from fora devoted to book criticism. Those have been around for a long time, they have been much harsher, and the few writers who engaged in direct complaints (hello there Anne Rice!) were rightly ridiculed.
Is it because the comics community is so small and, like you say, easy to get into professionally (in the sense of doing it as work and, if lucky, money) without having to learn other layers of professional conduct, that so many of its creators don't seem to realise that once a work is published, it's out of their control in terms of reception?