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I've often made fun of today's fashionable comic artists who can't draw. You'll find them in lofty venues like the New York Times or art museums , worshipped by intellectuals who have persuaded themselves that traditional artistic standards are not relevant to the "new" art forms. Awful drawing by Gary Panter reprinted by the Smithsonian Institution Terrible drawing by Frank Stack also reprinted by the Smithsonian Institution We are told for example that we can't judge the new "sophisticated and literate" brand of comic art without taking into consideration its words, or its politics, or its sadness, or some other redeeming external feature. Artists of the modern graphic novel, we are told, should not be measured by the standards applied to previous generations of artists (standards such as design, composition or linework). Instead, their pictures are to be read "like music notes on paper. They're just marks, unless you understand music...