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Your definition of "progress" is telling. Someone else's definition of progress could include a heightened respect for comic strips as art, rather than base fo
by toyg 3y ago
Your definition of "progress" is telling.
Someone else's definition of progress could include a heightened respect for comic strips as art, rather than base fodder for merchandise and commercial exploitation. Watterson's stance did help with that, at a time (late '80s) when it was still a very niche position in the US.
- grotorea 3y agoAnd isn't what you're calling "merchandise and commercial exploitation" art too? Is a movie not art just because it's licensed?
- toyg 3y agoWith all due respect to Warhol and friends, IMHO a tin of soup is a tin of soup. A cereal box featuring C&H is something we can all live without. This is particularly true for comics, which have historically been seen as fodder for other industries in the US and need all the attention they can get as an art-form in their own right.
- jessriedel 3y agoIt's not my definition "progress". It's what the word is understood to mean in this context. The text can mean anything if you take "progress" to mean "whatever makes the world better by my lights".