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Das Boo posted:So I've been out of work near a whole drat year and I started working on a horror comic idea I'd been kicking around. I showed it to a friend in the profession and he admitted it could be a hard sell since it's "clearly not made to cater to a demographic." Mind this was said in a positive way regarding story, just not in marketability. He's a good dude.
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Apr 16, 2024 00:25
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the whole thing about having to make things for a clearly defined "audience" is so crap, it's fed by the need to monetise everything and market to specific target demographics for maximim return on investment and is a big part of why art of all kinds is so stagnant right now. it killed my art dead when i was a kid to try to show my comics and stories to adults only to immediately get the "who is this for? who's the target audience?" question. if i named a specific group of people i thought might like it, the adult would immediately start picking out characters and plot points that needed to be removed because that target audience would not be interested in them. and it had nothing to do with the work itself, everything to do with the ultimate goal of getting something published and maybe getting paid for it, which they reasoned would only be possible if it was very carefully designed to tick a publisher's boxes. completely counter-intuitive to what their aim should have been, encouraging the weird kid to make sincere art that is not crippled by self-consciousness.
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Apr 27, 2024 03:27
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off topic nvm, sorry thread
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Apr 27, 2024 03:45
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Lunatic Sledge posted:I do think there's a happy medium, as I'm glad no one crushed my dreams as a kid but I do wish somebody had warned me maybe in my late teens - early 20s about the whole marketability thing  i hope things improve for you soon.it's definitely not wrong to teach artistic business skills to learners. this example kind of just touched a nerve for me i guess. sorry about the rant!
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Apr 27, 2024 14:20
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