Rick Marschall on innovation in comics

MARSCHALL: ...I dislike 95 percent of what is in RAW, but I wish there were 20 magazines like it, because that would indicate that there was more of what Art Spiegelman is doing--searching, experimenting, innovating. That's what gave birth to the newspaper strip industry, the comic-book industry, and it's practically absent today. I think that lost sense of excitement is what is tragic, not only as a critic, as a historian, I don't think that's my point of view at all. I think it's a tragedy for the future of the medium. If it's bad now, it'll be worse later, because the people who could now be giving us thrills with the potential of the comics medium, as they are in Europe, are not.