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...eyeballs looking over you shoulders. ... The flip side of course is you have all these half-baked notions and somebody will say yes." By way of example Spiegelman spoke of a musical theater piece he's been working on with composer Phillip Johnston, called "Drawn to Death: A Three Panel Opera" about the rise and fall of the American comic...
...question, "What is the future of independent publishing," the panel was surprisingly upbeat. "I think it will exist in one form or another," Charles Burns said. Though he didn't think the commercial prospects were very good, "people will keep on buying as long as you put stuff out there." Spiegelman likewise felt it was "relatively promising in its own weird way. As publishing itself becomes this totally marginalized activity, there's room for us marginal types in it." Chris Ware, ever the pessimist, pointed out that "the problem is that [comix] always end up in this section called 'graphic...
...inking this table-top filled with dirty dishes, doing all these little ellipses and cups for hours. I still have hours to go. That alone, to go back and break it open again, is too much." Incredibly organized, Burns says he knows what's in the last panel he'll be drawing four years from now. Another unique aspect to long-term comix, Burns points out, is that your drawing style will change and the characters will look different from five years ago. Ware, who says he has been working on a story for three years that takes place...
...When asked what recent work impressed them, the panel universally agreed on Dan Clowes' "Eightball" #22 (see TIME.comix review), a book made up of multiple short stories that also relate to each other. Spiegelman added that what he is most "in awe" of right now is the "weird dialogue" going on between the work of Clowes and Ware. "What is natural for Dan Clowes - narrative development of characters - has found a responsive chord in Chris, leading [Ware] to do more with his characters. Conversely, Chris's very natural feeling for form seems to have affected what Dan does...
...panel wound down with an exchange about how the events of September 11 have affected their work. Spiegelman said he suffers from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (he lives in downtown Manhattan.) He has been working out his feelings in a series of comix for the German newspaper "Die Zeit." The other panelists felt overwhelmed by the idea of dealing with the disaster. "I'm sure it can be done, but boy, the chances of falling into something that is just going to be smarmy are lethal," said Kim Deitch. "Crying superheroes," Burns derisively suggested, though just such a thing...