Daily Comics Digression #41: Is there a P.R. Dr. in the House?
Daily Comics Digression #41: Is there a P.R. Dr. in the House?
Never has there been an industry in greater need of Public Relations help than comics. Maybe it's due to the amount of freelancers who inhabit it; perhaps it's because of the nature of those attracted to the medium (shy loners who love fantasy but often lack social grace). Whatever the reason, there is an odious stench rising from this sector created by an ever growing preponderance of so-called professionals proactively profaning their public. In other words, the very creators who should be worshiping each and every potential customer are instead actively yelling at them to shut the f--- up whenever they darn well please.
At times like this, I truly marvel (pun intended) at the cesspool of social media, for it is only a small mercy that this waste of time (follow me at @Superskooled) is only a recent invention. It seems that celebrities constantly talk down to us from their twitter feeds, but comic book creators manage to outdo them all. At least the Hollywood crowd is famous and rich, so their unwarranted egos have some justification. Writers and artists who are nobodies outside of the ever-shrinking fandom of comics pontificate endlessly about how people who are not leftists are evil and that they and their money is unwanted. The sheer hubris of creators who sell under five thousand comics to stores is absolutely stymieing. These men and women and men who pretend to be women are who we should be taking life advice from?
When comic book stores are not increasing in number, but closing due to the industry shrinking at a time when comic book intellectual properties are at an all-time high, everyone working for these companies should be doing everything they can to sweet talk everyone. At bare minimum, freelancers at all major comic book companies should be barred from verbally sparring with the clientele. Am I insane? How is this not common sense?
The current state of affairs and the sloth seen by comic book companies to address it acts, in my opinion, to confirm my theory about the state of the industry. The corporate heads don't really care about the comic book industry, not so far as it pertains to the comics themselves.
Never has there been an industry in greater need of Public Relations help than comics. Maybe it's due to the amount of freelancers who inhabit it; perhaps it's because of the nature of those attracted to the medium (shy loners who love fantasy but often lack social grace). Whatever the reason, there is an odious stench rising from this sector created by an ever growing preponderance of so-called professionals proactively profaning their public. In other words, the very creators who should be worshiping each and every potential customer are instead actively yelling at them to shut the f--- up whenever they darn well please.
At times like this, I truly marvel (pun intended) at the cesspool of social media, for it is only a small mercy that this waste of time (follow me at @Superskooled) is only a recent invention. It seems that celebrities constantly talk down to us from their twitter feeds, but comic book creators manage to outdo them all. At least the Hollywood crowd is famous and rich, so their unwarranted egos have some justification. Writers and artists who are nobodies outside of the ever-shrinking fandom of comics pontificate endlessly about how people who are not leftists are evil and that they and their money is unwanted. The sheer hubris of creators who sell under five thousand comics to stores is absolutely stymieing. These men and women and men who pretend to be women are who we should be taking life advice from?
When comic book stores are not increasing in number, but closing due to the industry shrinking at a time when comic book intellectual properties are at an all-time high, everyone working for these companies should be doing everything they can to sweet talk everyone. At bare minimum, freelancers at all major comic book companies should be barred from verbally sparring with the clientele. Am I insane? How is this not common sense?
The current state of affairs and the sloth seen by comic book companies to address it acts, in my opinion, to confirm my theory about the state of the industry. The corporate heads don't really care about the comic book industry, not so far as it pertains to the comics themselves.
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