Posted by Gaidin at gaidin.rutgers.edu on October 13, 1999 at 08:56:15:
Hey,
On Steve Grant's Master of the Obvious (www.comicbookresources.com/moto/), he discusses this week the ascendency of the writer in modern comics. Here's a snippet, wherein you, Kevin, are placed in pretty rare company. Rightly so, I think:
"So we have this curious new phenomenon: salable comic books - often outselling most other comic books - identified not with an artist or writer-artist team but with the writer. Grant Morrison's JLA. Garth Ennis' PREACHER. Mark Waid's THE FLASH. Alan Moore's LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN. Warren Ellis' TRANSMETROPOLITAN. James Robinson's STARMAN. Kurt Busiek's ASTRO CITY. Kevin Smith's DAREDEVIL. And, of course, the granddaddy of them all: Neil Gaiman's SANDMAN. "