They are not poetic, not literary, have no relationship to any art, have as little to do with the American people as alcohol, heroin, or marihuana, although many people take them, too.
Alan Moore, Richard Corben, Carl Barks, Jack Kirby, R. Crumb, Kim Deitch, George Herriman, Al Feldstein, Johnny Craig, Graham Ingels, Wally Wood, Charles Burns, Katsuhiro Ôtomo, Steve Gerber, Will Eisner, Crockett Johnson, Steve Ditko, Harvey Pekar, Los Bros Hernandez, Phoebe Gloeckner, Jack Cole, Walt Kelly, Chester Gould, Will Elder and Harvey Kurtzman, Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima, Lynda Barry, Marjane Satrapi, Archie Goodwin, Windsor McCay, Charles Schulz, Basil Wolverton, Spain Rodriguez, Alex Schomburg and Robert Williams
Meta-comics! I like that. Never heard that term before. Is that what we are? It looks like we've got a few things in comic going on. Very pleased to meet you, I'd like to see/hear more about your work.