| Posted: 30 April 2012 at 12:27pm | IP Logged | 1
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At the risk of sounding like a red shirt, I'm kind of offended by the idea that someone who hates superheroes feels the need to write comics about them just to make money.
There are plenty of people working in comics independently or on creator-owned material that ISN'T about superheroes, simply because they want to tell stories and use the medium of comics to tell them. There are plenty of people who have worked on superhero comics but also have worked on creator owned material, and who have put a lot of effort into creating and maintaining their own brands and ideas outside of mainstream superheroes at the Big Two.
If someone finds superheroes so distasteful, why don't they just write their own comics that AREN'T about superheroes? Image, IDW, Dynamite, Boom!, heck, even DC with Vertigo, all have creator-owned properties as part of their lines. Archaia puts out the amazing Mouse Guard by David Petersen; Fantagraphics publishes books by everyone from the Hernandez brothers to Joe Sacco, Alison Bechdel, Will Eisner. When they first started, Eastman and Laird put out Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on their own. Jeff Smith worked on Bone, Dave Sim on Cerebus, Art Spiegelman on whatever he wanted, including Maus, a book that won the Pulitzer Prize.
There are plenty of people who love the medium of comics and who work within it, building themselves a body of work and a following over many years and decades, all while barely touching on superheroes, if they work on superheroes at all.
What "trapped" because "that's where the money is" really means is, the person doesn't want to put the effort into building a career, they'd rather just take a paycheck and bitch about how bad they have it.
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