
Job:05-19413 Title:Creating Comics
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Creative Process
In 1974 the Marvel Age of Comics had refocused cultural
spotlights on the four-color medium, which was appropriately
identified as an authentic American art form, existing somewhere
to the left of jazz. I’d made a limited, but somewhat resonant,
contribution to their chronology and decided to explore other
areas, some of which were natural extensions of the comic
book phenomenon.
One of those was the graphic novel, the roots of which extend
back to the turn of the century, when comics were in their em-
bryonic stages of ...