Yeah, but I don't mean email exchanges on sites such as this, where conditions are regulated and 'creators' can afford to be polite - or nice - at a distance. I'm talking about 'in person' meetings, where it's harder for them to present a personable facade and there's more chance of their conceit, or rudeness, or indifference - or even barely disguised contempt for the fans - showing through.
I just wondered if anyone at that 70s' convention viewed BATMAN with a little less enthusiasm than previously, after being disappointed by Bob Kane himself, and how many times such a situation has occurred since with other creators.
When I first started working in comics, I met some people who, while soaking up the adulation of the fans, would only admit to working 'in publishing' to non-comic fans, as if they were embarrassed by what they did (which they obviously were). I had grown up on the Stan Lee, Marvel Bullpen image, where comics were produced by one big, happy family of enthusiastic and dedicated creators - and was quite astonished to find that such was not necessarily the case. I've gone slightly off-subject, but you know what I'm getting at, I'm sure.
