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Not exactly fine art, but not quite comics

https://www.rockwell-center.org/student-research/the-artist-and-the-cartoonist/ Not exactly fine art, not quite comics, Pettibon and Dzama helped create a space for new kinds of work to be made, work that is both comics and art. Another identity crisis of sorts... I guess I've resolved the issue of being a musician and an artist simultaneously and the conclusion I've come to is: you can't do both at the same time, successfully and professionally. Now, the dilemma is between art and comics. “Try not to limit yourself or label yourself. You are not a brand. That’s a big thing in schools right now- teaching people how to brand themselves to optimize their earning potential. I personally would like to see people fight this.” Having written a few genre specific (sci and western) scripts for comics, I found that I'm totally uninterested in drawing them. In general, drawing genre comics kind of disgusts me. It's weird because I can appreciate them, but making them

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