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Lisa Fary's earliest influences are Princess Leia, Rainbow Bright, Astronaut Barbie, and her 6th grade teacher, Ms. Palmer. She's angry that it's 2011 and she still doesn't have a hovercraft, but will accept a jetpack as consolation. That jetpack had better be pink with a rhinestone monogram. One Comments
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I love this article! And it’s interesting that you mention Warhol in the same breath as Van Gogh and Dali as far as “high art”, because there was a time when Warhol wasn’t considered high art at all. Some people still don’t consider him such. Hell, some people don’t consider fashion art. But I think that’s exactly where we’re going for comic books, too. Already comics and graphic novels are more mainstream than they ever have been. Now, with college courses being taught about them, and university libraries like Columbia’s stocking their shelves with them, there will come a time when comics are considered a reputable art form, and not just “pop.”
As Stan Lee said at NY Comic Con (and I’m sure in other places): If Shakespeare and Da Vinci were still alive, and decided to collaborate on a comic book, would it still be considered frivolous? The worth of a comic has nothing to do with the inherent worthiness of the medium, and everything to do with who’s creating it.