--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, John Armstrong
<pachuco@...> wrote:
>
> Similar thing happening in comics; as the audience
has dwindled,
overall
> quality of writing and art has gone up.
> Purely subjective estimation on my part but I don;t
think too many
would
> argue there is more really fine work in comics now
(last 10 years
say)
> than in other eras.
Sophistication can't be braked, but it does tend to lose the
mass audience, even when it can gather at least a sizable
minority of the surviving audience...hence tendencies to
gamble on complex and nuanced work, along with some ever
crasser (along with, on average, the best set of television
drama the US, at least, has seen has been a complement of the
most ridiculous, degrading set of game shows we've ever been
plagued with, for obvious example, and fake cinema verite
series).
Todd Mason
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