Don't Throw it Away
Oct. 14th, 2005 11:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
doronjosamaWill Allison speaks the fucking truth about comic books and the concept of "throwaway ideas". ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
willworks doesn't post often, but when he does, it's always good. Go and read it now!
I gotta say, it's the truth though- your brilliant masterpiece? Might never sell for shit. But that thing you scrawled as filler? Might be the thing everyone loves to pieces. Rumiko Takahashi's Maison Ikkoku is a genius piece of work, but people only really care about Ranma and Inu Yasha. Evan Dorkin's Hectic Planet is some of his best work ever, but people only really beg for more Milk & Cheese.
Here's the thing- you don't get to pick what you'll be popular for or remembered for. The audience does that. And you never really have any control over who your audience will be.
Anyway, time for me to get to work.
willworks doesn't post often, but when he does, it's always good. Go and read it now!I gotta say, it's the truth though- your brilliant masterpiece? Might never sell for shit. But that thing you scrawled as filler? Might be the thing everyone loves to pieces. Rumiko Takahashi's Maison Ikkoku is a genius piece of work, but people only really care about Ranma and Inu Yasha. Evan Dorkin's Hectic Planet is some of his best work ever, but people only really beg for more Milk & Cheese.
Here's the thing- you don't get to pick what you'll be popular for or remembered for. The audience does that. And you never really have any control over who your audience will be.
Anyway, time for me to get to work.
