Anyway, he and Matt Fraction have a column/ongoing interview over at CBR, and in one installment Casey actually makes some very good points regarding comics, creative teams, and Wildstorm.
Here's a few highlights, click the link to read the whole thing.
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The Basement Tapes #58
Joe Casey: It's the creators who make new creations work. I don't create characters like Batman or Spider-Man that just anyone can write. I create characters that only myself and my original artistic collaborators can bring to life. Anything or anyone else is a waste of everyone's time. No one but Ash Wood could've drawn KAFKA, and no one but Cammo should've ever drawn THE INTIMATES (although I'm not necessarily convinced that poor Cammo felt that way). And I have nothing but sympathy for anyone who put pencil to paper in service of THE INTIMATES after Cammo took the carrot. I mean, just look at the last four issues and tell me I'm wrong...
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Joe Casey: Because one thing publishers have to understand, especially a little-fish-in-a-big-pond like Wildstorm, is that quality counts. It'll never be about big sales for them. That time is over. The only thing they have control over... is quality of product. Putting out good material. Keeping artists on their books and not letting them get stolen or lured away by the chance to draw ******** Batman. For chrissakes, Batman will always be there and it will always need more bodies to throw on that monthly fire. But for an artist to do just twelve issues of something, top to bottom... well, the fact that it's so rare these days is ******** sad. On the other hand, I guess that just makes the ones that do that much more special.
Joe Casey: It's the creators who make new creations work. I don't create characters like Batman or Spider-Man that just anyone can write. I create characters that only myself and my original artistic collaborators can bring to life. Anything or anyone else is a waste of everyone's time. No one but Ash Wood could've drawn KAFKA, and no one but Cammo should've ever drawn THE INTIMATES (although I'm not necessarily convinced that poor Cammo felt that way). And I have nothing but sympathy for anyone who put pencil to paper in service of THE INTIMATES after Cammo took the carrot. I mean, just look at the last four issues and tell me I'm wrong...
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Joe Casey: Because one thing publishers have to understand, especially a little-fish-in-a-big-pond like Wildstorm, is that quality counts. It'll never be about big sales for them. That time is over. The only thing they have control over... is quality of product. Putting out good material. Keeping artists on their books and not letting them get stolen or lured away by the chance to draw ******** Batman. For chrissakes, Batman will always be there and it will always need more bodies to throw on that monthly fire. But for an artist to do just twelve issues of something, top to bottom... well, the fact that it's so rare these days is ******** sad. On the other hand, I guess that just makes the ones that do that much more special.
