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There’s a critique of mainstream comic fans that can be made, but the word I don’t see get thrown around a lot is “envy.” Superhero fans always seem like they’re having a great time. With art comics, the conversations that I tend to see, it’s not as much about actually caring about what happens to the characters who live in the four-corners of the page. It’s more about whether “so-and-so is a genius” or not, aesthetic questions I have no interest in, the cult of creators. I’ve never seen anyone go nuts on the internet over what happened to Crying Asian Man from some Adrian Tomine comic. “I’m going to predict what happens to Crying Asian Man in the next issue of Optic Nerve.” Never seen that. I’ve never seen a Crying Asian Man fan-site, or anyone dressed as Crying Asian Man at a comic convention, or Crying Asian Man slash-fic. (via The Comics Reporter —the Abhay Khosla interview itself)
