In a way, it all works perfectly, because the work that really matters in comics, the kind that will eventually communicate some sort of mass conciousness intervention, is of no interest or use to people who only care about comics, art comics trivia obsessive or Wednesday warrior (two sides, same coin) alike. And so, those visionary cartoonists are totally protected to develop in an entirely organic way, spanning centuries, until they stand on the actual word stage in full maturity. And, going with this idea, when this happens, the people who will have formed what emerges will be involved in life beyond art, because there was never much financial interest in what they were building, so other jobs were needed. The comics become an everyday expression, tortured over but ultimately allowed to live, rather than something made with the crush of profession. Anyway...maybe the most important thing for interesting cartoonists to avoid is the comic book world way of thinking of things.
