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A Key To My Thinking Has Always Been The Almost Fanatical Belief That What I Was Engaged In Was A Literary Art Form. That Belief Was Compounded Out Of Ego And Necessity, I Guess, A Combination Of The Two.

Still,[...] In All Forms Of Comics The Sequential Artist Relies Upon The Tacit Cooperation Of The Reader. This Cooperation Is Based Upon The Convention Of Reading And The Common Cognitive Disciplines. Indeed, It Is This Very Voluntary Cooperation, So Unique To Comics, That Underlies The Contract Between Artist And Audience.

Comics Deal With Two Fundamental Communicating Devices: Words And Images. Admittedly This Is An Arbitrary Separation. But, Since In The Modern World Of Communication They Are Treated As Independent Disciplines, It Seems Valid. Actually, The Are Derivatives Of A Single Origin And In The Skillful Employment Of Words And Images Lies The Expressive Potential Of The Medium.

Ive Spent My Whole Life Working In A Medium That Was Regarded With Contempt Largely Because Of Historical Reasons.

Comics, Which Are Really Best Described As An Arrangement Of Images In A Sequence That Tell A Story - An Idea - Is A Very Old Form Of Graphic Communication. It Began With The Hieroglyphics In Egypt, It First Appeared In A Recognizable Form In The Medieval Times As Copper Plates Produced By The Catholic Church To Tell Morality Stories.