iinviicta asked: Do you think most of the editors or creators of yesteryear can stand up to the standards and demands of the average consumer if they were writing now (societal relevance aside)? Or is a lot of their appeal based on the fact that what they did was the first of its kind? (Like how Watson and Crick technically made some of the most ground breaking discoveries ever when it came to DNA at the time, but in the grand scheme, they only figured out what it looks like)
I don’t think that there’s any way to know for certain. I will say that the best-respected creators of comics history got to be so well-respected because of their storytelling chops, and those chops would still be evident today. Additionally, the work those creators would do in the present time would be informed by everything that came before it, as our modern creators are, and would utilize the same range of technological tools that are now available to our profession—full-range color rather than a limited palate of 64 colors, for instance.
But as to whether or not the audience of today would like what they’d do, who can say? Who’s to say that even the people that loved the stories they did in the past would like what they’d produce today with modern techniques and utilizing a modern style?
