The best comics are always going to be made by eccentric outsiders – people who feel that their work is absolutely necessary to them.
“Daniel Clowes, where do you get the ideas for such ugly faces?” And Dan goes, “Well, look, have you ever been to Chicago?”
For a long time, there was an impenetrable mindset in North America that comics were genre-based junk for children, Drawn and Quarterly did a lot to change that.
The idea of a comic book has been lost in the ghetto, whereas the graphic novel is now being held up as something to aspire to and as something that’s respectable for adults to read.
Sometimes a comic can be a great thing because it’s a comic, not because it’s almost as good as a movie, or as good as a prose novel.