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Oh, Sven ...
lolwut:
--- Quote from: Nerin on 08 Feb 2009, 07:53 ---There's a lot of talk about whether or not Jeph is pandering to his fan base. Nobody who isn't Jeph can tell how much of the comic is really what he wants to write instead of just what he thinks his audience will like...but I'm not clear on why this is bad.
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artists who are creating what they think their audience wants rather than something that they love tend to creating poorer works.
Dunnoe:
seconded
Nerin:
--- Quote from: lolwut on 08 Feb 2009, 08:04 ---
--- Quote from: Nerin on 08 Feb 2009, 07:53 ---There's a lot of talk about whether or not Jeph is pandering to his fan base. Nobody who isn't Jeph can tell how much of the comic is really what he wants to write instead of just what he thinks his audience will like...but I'm not clear on why this is bad.
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artists who are creating what they think their audience wants rather than something that they love tend to creating poorer works.
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Can you give examples of this? And how can you differentiate between the two? How do you ever truly know what's going on in an artist's head unless the artist jumps out and says "Yeah I don't really give a crap about this; I'm just doing it to make some money/be popular!"
lolwut:
--- Quote from: Nerin on 08 Feb 2009, 10:01 ---
--- Quote from: lolwut on 08 Feb 2009, 08:04 ---
--- Quote from: Nerin on 08 Feb 2009, 07:53 ---There's a lot of talk about whether or not Jeph is pandering to his fan base. Nobody who isn't Jeph can tell how much of the comic is really what he wants to write instead of just what he thinks his audience will like...but I'm not clear on why this is bad.
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artists who are creating what they think their audience wants rather than something that they love tend to creating poorer works.
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Can you give examples of this? And how can you differentiate between the two? How do you ever truly know what's going on in an artist's head unless the artist jumps out and says "Yeah I don't really give a crap about this; I'm just doing it to make some money/be popular!"
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(i'm playing devils advocate)
uhhh...
there's that guy who's written a thirty book fantasy trilogy... piers anthony? anyway, you can see what happened after... fuck, book five? iunno.
laurell k hamilton (her books weren't always poorly disguised pornography)
indie bands who SELL OUT
jeph:
--- Quote from: Jackie Blue on 06 Feb 2009, 11:44 ---Just to be clear, the fanservice is, in my view, not the sex scene itself but rather the drama that he is creating by setting up a Faye-Sven Explosion.
Also, I think Jeph has been pandering to his audience (which, for the past couple years, has become mostly composed of people a decade or more younger than him who have very little in common with him) for a while now; this strip just made it super-obvious.
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You don't know who my audience is.
And if "doing something I thought would be interesting" is "pandering" then OH NO I GUESS I'M GUILTY
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