Oh crap, I'm showing my Americocentrisism. I was thinking more than Marvel/DC/Vertigo are American companies. Not that the authors are all American.
Widening the selection is the best answer I can think of--or the best outcome. Each person may have a different reason. You have a very specific set of influences--your schooling and environment. Maybe a lot of our generation is also going to art school and widening themselves to more comic book forms. Remmeber those kids who only wanted to draw anime, and thought realism was beneath them and stiffling their creativity? Yeah. They probably got phased out, or lost interest in anime as they got older, because to begin with their interest was immature. It had no ground to mature with them. As pretentious as this will sound, I think we had a firmer grasp of quality and complexity and art, even as stupid-ass teenagers.
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Widening the selection is the best answer I can think of--or the best outcome. Each person may have a different reason. You have a very specific set of influences--your schooling and environment. Maybe a lot of our generation is also going to art school and widening themselves to more comic book forms. Remmeber those kids who only wanted to draw anime, and thought realism was beneath them and stiffling their creativity? Yeah. They probably got phased out, or lost interest in anime as they got older, because to begin with their interest was immature. It had no ground to mature with them. As pretentious as this will sound, I think we had a firmer grasp of quality and complexity and art, even as stupid-ass teenagers.