Posted: 19 July 2019 at 4:54am | IP Logged | 6
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One of the best writers, but in a medium where there are many very good, and a handful or more as good as him.I enjoyed what i read of his stories, and defending the rights of writers and artists rather than a compagny is a good fight, though the way he does it may sometime let me skeptical, and wondering what part of it is fighting this fight and what part is acting like a diva. He also seems to come to quick conclusions on weak basis, on some topics like Stan Lee. I also am not a fan of the rock star mentality, even whith rock stars, and i'm even less a fan of it when it comes to comics writers or artists. (Some others that came later may be more guilty of it than him though, even if he probably inspired them) And there're a few other things i read in an interview of him around 1999 or 2000 that i didn't like.
All this being say the public image of an artist (writer, artist, painter, musician, etc...) and the person are two different things. For all i know, he may be (the lost girls thing, that i didn't read, and the thing from the interview i was talking about, excepted), a decent guy.
I like his work. but nobody is irreplaceable, even if each creator is somehow unique. He was, and probably will be in other media, an interresting voice, a good storyteller.
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