@Reignmaker: When you talk about the accessibility of comics, I definitely agree. But what do you think of the physical accessibility of comics? The digital market is making it easier to allow people to gain access to comics even if they might not have a comic store in their city or town. But I still feel its highly lacking compared to when it was in the past. But I believe this is more contributed to the lack of people who read for pleasure in the United States then anything else.
@The_Tree: Why do you think the originality is lacking? Personally I believe its because of a more media wise problem then just comics. I used to attend the Savannah College of Art and Design for 3 years, after attending several seminars with editors and speaking one on one with some of them, the attitude I gathered was that they were steadily trying to hold onto concepts from the golden and silver ages, instead of moving on to something new. The only new concept that they had been concentrating was the idea of Comics breaking into the Digital spectrum for Tablets and Smart Phones.
Originality seems to show more face in smaller indie publishers then in Marvel or DC, but they have a huge problem with making their comics more accessible to the masses. It confuses me because I have visited publishers in France, of the Franco-Belgian Comic industry and they do not seem to have the same problem. I'm just trying to piece together some sort of correlation.
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