Except some of that weirdness bleeds back into the original art that isn’t the comic but is the comics artboard. And that’s just a pleasant weirdness of comics. So some copies are copies and some copies are the thing itself. 1 on a poster, postcard, or t-shirt is, like any Warhol copy, just a copy. And yet, a copy of the cover of Action Comics No.
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And, if it’s the first run of, say, Action Comics No.1, it’s worth as much as some Warhol originals. If you buy a framed Warhol print-or button, postcard, or t-shirt-you don’t imagine you now own “a Warhol.” But if you buy a comic, you do own it. A comic is its multiple copies.Ĭompare that to, say, Andy Warhol (who was all about the art of copies). The artboards can (and should) be called works of art too, but they’re not the art that is the comic–which, weirdly, has no original. Traditionally, a comics artist draws on artboards, and then a printer uses those artboards to produce a comic. But the challenge I’m talking about is less aesthetic and more metaphysical.Ĭomics artists create art in order to create comics. That sounds obvious enough, but unlike most art forms, the object the artist creates-the physical piece of paper with ink on it-is not the art. Usually a statement like that implies “good art” or “high art” and the supposed challenge of whether comics as a mass medium can be included in such categories. Comics challenge traditional ideas of art.