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...first thing TIME.comix noticed: Some of these guys looked like their drawings. Burns sports a nearly bald pate and black-rimmed eyeglasses. Chris Ware, with a large Corrigan-esqe head, tries to bashfully shrink into his chair. Kidd, whose sweeping part of dark hair and wire-rim glasses give him the look of a teenage Devo fan, began by asking Art Spiegelman what it means to be a successful cartoonist. "It's a very mixed blessing," Spiegelman said. "I've felt this incredible weight ever since 'Maus' became a crossover hit because it puts all these eyeballs looking over...
...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 novels' which some bookstores don't even have so they end up in 'Science Fiction,' or even worse, with 'Role Playing Games.' I can't go into bookstores any more because...
...Asked how he felt about being included in this year's Biennial exhibition at New York's Whitney museum, Ware said he felt flattered but dismissed it as "luck of the draw." "It's also fairly nonsensical because the clip that I'm including you have to sit down and read. You can't spend a lot of time looking at the artwork on the wall. It's the difference between art for reproduction and art for display." Richard McGuire then spoke of his own recent work, installations of large comix panels that hang from the ceiling, as an example...
...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 in three hours sometimes thinks "working this way is insane...
...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...