On art-imitating-art, I read an interesting interview in The Comics Journal in the late 90s, wherein the interviewee bemoaned how poor the state of comics art h

On art-imitating-art, I read an interesting interview in The Comics Journal in the late 90s, wherein the interviewee bemoaned how poor the state of comics art hat become; the norm in the 30s, 40s, and 50s had been artists who had trained as illustrators or in fine arts, and even when they portrayed horror or superheroes, their work was grounded in a knowledge of how bodies worked. Over time, though, more and more of the artists had learned by copying the golden and silver age work. And then copying those copies. The end point of which was Rob Liefeld being unable to draw feet and his other atrocities of posture, proportion, or indeed a sense of where a human's organs might reside.