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BY REBECCA PAHLE
BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN COMIC BOOK CREATORS,
PUBLISHERS AND CONSUMERS
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useums. Collec- tors. Art shows. T ey're all staples of the art world. And while comic books might
not be the fi rst medium that springs to mind when someone says "fi ne arts," the stigma of comics as being the sole prov- ince of sci-fi fanboys and the under-12 set has been dissolving for years. T e fact that comics can be mainstream (mov- ies based on comic book superheroes
like Batman are pretty much the only sure thing at the box offi ce nowadays) or highbrow (Art Spiegelman's graphic novel Maus: A Survivor's Tale won a Pu- litzer Prize in 1992) isn't anything new. But the times are still a-changin'. Just as evolving technology has had an impact on how art as a whole is created, shared and consumed, so too has it revolution- ized the world of comics. Part of this has to do with the nature
of comics themselves. A collaboration between images and words, comic books
MARCH/APRIL 2012