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Fred J Chamberlain
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Adam, that was my first interpretation, too.
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Jason Larouse
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Jerry Ordway wrote a good blog post about this a few years ago:
http://ordstersrandomthoughts.blogspot.com/2013/03/life-over -fifty.html
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Joe S. Walker
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I think it's harder for artists to make a name in comics these days. All the attention seems to go to writers.
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John Byrne
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The ones who “die young” can sometimes be the lucky ones. This industry does not take care of its own.
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Brennan Voboril
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Jerry Ordway's piece was interesting. Comics reminds me of any other business. You get to a certain age and that's it. My dad was in real estate, after high interest rates in the 80s flattened his industry, he could not get work that paid anything near what he had been making. We fans see comics as this magical thing (remember the stories of the Bullpen which were not true), when it is just as cutthroat as any business.
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John Byrne
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I think it's harder for artists to make a name in comics these days. All the attention seems to go to writers.•• A victory for those who have long insisted the writers are the only ones who do any real work.
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Greg McPhee
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I always believed you saw a lot of artists come and go in the 90s as they got in to the business to ride out the boom, were left high and dry when the industry couldn't sustain it, and moved in to other fields.
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John Byrne
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Over the years, many have come into comics calling them a “stepping stone” to better things, usually meaning movies and/or TV. My response was “So step, already, and clear the field for those of us who want to do comics for comics sake.”
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Joe Boster
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Was talking to Tom Lyle, currently Sequential art professor at SCAD, said that one day the phone just stopped ringing.
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Greg McPhee
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I'd read an interview with Tom Lyle sayin the same thing. In the 90s he was the go to artist for Robin, Batman, The Punisher and Spider-Man, the next just cast aside.
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Andrew Cate
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Take someone like Joe St Pierre. Nice guy, worked on a number of Spidey titles for Marvel in the 90's and still very talented working on some of his own IP's. Seems like he could still do some fine work for Marvel if there was an open opportunity. But that's more of my question...does Marvel have an open door policy or is it shut for the most part when you leave the building?
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Peter Hicks
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I recall an interview with a guy who was working as an assistant editor at DC around 2000. Steve Englehart came in one day, talked to every editor, basically begging for work, and got nothing. The assistant editor thought to himself, "this guy used to write Avengers and Justice League, and now no one will hire him. Everybody in this business has a shelf life."
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