Are comics geeky and what would you change about them.?

Question

I draw comics for fun but what is popular and why, is it the styl or what.

I draw comics for fun but what is popular and why, is it the styl or what. If you want to discuse it more my email is my nick name. I realy mean western comics but the subject is open

Some of my art can be seen at

//uk.geocities.com/[e-mail]/ Some_teen_Art_work.ht

Answer 1

I think comics could be considered geeky, but so what? i'd rather be a comic reading, star trek loving geek any day instead of a dumb, crotch scratching football jock!

I think the main three things that need to be changed about comics are these:

1) Much more attention should be given to both decent artwork and storylines. I'd rather wait 3 months for a well written, well illustrated issue to come out than poorly drawn, poorly conceived issues out every 2 weeks.

2) The prices need to be lowered! Come on, 4 frikkin dollars for a single issue? It's crazy. The publishers go on and on about how much more it costs to digitally format/print comics on glossy stock paper, and how much it costs to pay the artists/writers. That is crap! I miss the days of 60 cent comics that were 38 pages long, printed out on newsprint! They last for decades, if cared for properly.

3) The whole obsession with getting rich quick and getting out. Ever since the early 90s when McFarland, Shooter, and other 'up and coming' artists/writers bailed on the big companies and started up companies like Defiant, Image, Top Cow, etc; there has been a mad rush to publish as many comics in as short a time as possible, make as much cash as they can, then bail on a title or series and leave the fans hanging. Look how many #1- #3 issues Image put out from 1990-2000. There was easily more than 500. It was all BS, designed to lure people in with flashy 'special edition' #1 issues, then bail when sales fell because the art and writing sucked.

Marvel, DC, and even Dark Horse had begun doing similar things by the mid 90s. Marvel's X-titles from about 1993 - 2003 was a great example of excessive greed- there were, at some points, 12-15 diiferent regular x-titles published a month, and anywhere from 6-12 more tie ins. All the issues tied together, so you basically had to buy 12-18 different titles a month just to get the whole story. This same thing also happened over and over with Spiderman, Batman, Superman, and DC's yearly 'Annual Crossovers' It's a shame, so many good titles and good characters wasted and abused to satisfy the greed of publishers and artists.

Answer 2

Comics ARE NOT GEEKY! Are you saying I'm a geek? Is that it? By the way, do you know where I can find some Sonic the Hedgehog comics? I've been searching for some. Sonic is one of my childhood heroes, you see. Plus it's anime! The only thing I would change about comics would be a little more enthusiasm in the later issues of comics. After all, after the first few of a series, comics start to get negative in always trying to kill the heroes or their friends.

Answer 3

About the "geeky" bit: Comics are not geeky! As you clearly see from this picture (http://www.brunching.com/images/geekchartbig.gif) we - the free comic book artists - are pretty close to the top of hierarchical ladder. So no, drawing comics isn't geeky. Technically everything can be geeky from different points of view.
The only thing I would change about comics is the style - I'm fed up seeing those so called "cutting edge" comics with plastic looking characters and simple backgrounds. Light does not reflect like that on human body unless it's made of plastic!
I really like those sketchy looking ones however.
So the answer is simple, comics aren't geeky, and the only thing must be changed is the style (going back to old school!)

Answer 4

The comic book started out aimed towards children, and most mainstream media and the average individual hasn't let that marketing niche go after all these years, hence the industry's stigma.

Comic books, just as with any other creative medium, are a form of artistic expression. I' m a writer and I've studied classical art methods and technique at the SAIC, and comic books are the field through which I choose to express my creative vision.

Just as with film: a comic book can be as deep or as vapid as the creator wants to story/visual art to be. One director makes Citizen Kane, and another will make Dude Where's My Car, the same can be seen in the comic book medium. Stan Lee, Alan Moore, Frank Miller, and B.M. Bendis make in-depth characters that readers can actually relate to on human levels. While some writers and artist want to make more one divisional, action oriented figures, its their prerogative.

Its in the hands of creators - and fans - how they'll interpret the properties message as geeky or social commentary. Just as with beauty, depth is in the eyes of the beholder, if one believes the genre is geeky then maybe they see it as being geeky because that is all their allowing their self to see.

Peace out, and keep art alive people.

Answer 5

i think the jim lee style of art, or even joe maderia (sp?), is some of the best art i've ever seen. i dont like the new stuff in the x-men comics, it looks childish and amatuerish. maybe that's what people like these days, but i still classic is best. only those who have read comics from all decades can really appreciate the way art and writing has changed.
btw, comics arent geeky, and the only thing i would change about them is peoples perception that comics are geeky and for nerds only, cos that's not the case at all

Answer 6

No. Comics are not inherently geeky. Some are, like the ones that have half elf/half cat chix with huge boobs. Those are geeky. Its the people that read them and make them geeky. When a guy says "comic book" you dotn think of Sam L Jackson, you think of the guy with the whiny voice, the asthma inhaler, and has huge thick glasses. They ruin it for everyone else. When I see a goth kid in a Punisher shirt I punchhim in the face and tell him to stop it. When I walk in the comic store to pick up 100 Bullets and the weird clerk watching Alias cant put down his Bagle Bite, I punch him and tel him to stop it. Hell, I wish others could join my Facebook group, People who Like Comics but Aren't geeks.

So what have we learned? If you where a Superman t-shirt and you are in fact not super at anything except hotdog eating competitions, then you will get punched in the face and told to stop it.

Answer 7

I don't think comics are geeky at all. They are dorky. There is a difference, you know. Geeky is the computer guy with the "big blue room" complex, the ambient techno recordings, Star Trek altar, etc. Dorky is the guy who knows the difference btw Claremont and Lee, what the proper dice for rolling for g.p.s is, and who would win in a fight btw Colossus and Juggernaut, and so on and so forth. I am proud to be a dork. I like comics for the style and story. The fact that they are novels or serials told with pictures really appeals to me. The art is incredible, and the story lines are infinitely variable. I prefer western over manga/japanese for the simple fact that I relate more readily to them.

Answer 8

Whilst I'm 22 and I read some comics, (like the US version of Sonic, ever since the UK version ceased), the only other comics I read are stuff like Garfield, Dilbert, and manga/anime, I don't consider these geeky as I'm still quite young, and also, many of them are classics.

However, when you get these fat, balding people in their late 40's, who buy all of the Superman, JLA, CSA, Spiderman, X-Men.....comics, and think that it's normal, and talk about it, and just snear at you as if you're the freak who can't get laid, those are the real atrocities.

Answer 9

comics are for people with imagination, small minded people with sad lives do call them geeky. apparently im a freak because im 31 and read them. my view is, comics are the one release i have that cant be taken away. the only thing i would change is the price, but then because of the price and popularity of them. they make a nice nest egg for retirement. check the marvel colletors editions. many have more than one artist per issue, as long as the story's strong you have nothing to worry about

Answer 10

i don't think comic books are geeky! some of the art work in them are amazing!

admittedly I'm not a huge fan and only know like the basic facts about the well known characters like spider-man, but i do have an appreciation of them.

i also know people who are really into comic books and have been for years.