The transcript of Michael Chabon's keynote...

Posted by MacDood

The transcript of Michael Chabon's keynote speech at Comic-Con is up at the website.

Children did not abandon comics; comics, in their drive to attain respect and artistic accomplishment, abandoned children. And for a long time we as lovers and partisans of comics were afraid, after so many long years of struggle and hard work and incremental gains, to pick up that old jar of greasy kid stuff again, and risk undoing it all. Comics have always been an arriviste art form, and all upstarts are to some degree ashamed of their beginnings. But frankly, I don’t think that’s what’s going on in comics anymore.

Now, I think, we have simply lost the habit of telling stories to children. And how sad is that?

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