[ SECRET POST #144 ]

[shahni.livejournal.com]

⌈ Secret Post #144 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

- Con returnee is happy and sleepy. Thus you get early post!

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 75 secrets from Secret Submission Post #021.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, 0 not!secrets, 0 not!fandom
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Wednesday, May 30th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: Here.
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Comments

Re: #13

[lostremnant.livejournal.com]

The cold harsh reality is that comic books is an industry. In order to keep going it needs an audience to buy its product. If there aren't enough males buying the product to keep the industry going then they have to branch out and encourage a female audience in order to survive. In order to attract a female audience, they have to give females what they want (whatever that is).

Obviously a lot of women don't like what the comic book industry is offering them or more would be buying the product. You can say that nothing stops a girl from picking up a comic but that's nonsense. What's stopping a girl from picking up a comic is that she doesn't like what she sees. If she liked it she'd buy it and apparently a lot of females aren't buying it.

As far as stamping out the artist's freedom....the big comic book companies are very very good at doing just that. At least they were back in the days when I use to buy comics.

Re: #13

[katsu]

Publishing's pretty much the same. It's an industry, so it wants what it can sell. One of the harsh truths that got beaten in to my skull when I started sending things to the slushpile is that the industry doesn't give a crap about my artistic vision.