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Western comic artists are talentless and tasteless hacks.
Here's my theory of how it all happened

>Start
Beginning at realism, pictured here with a marble statue, this is just what real humans look like, no stylization.
For much of history, painters would just simply paint humans as they appeared in reality, the concept of stylization did not exist.
>Industrial revolution, rise of consumerism
Around this time, art stopped being a luxury only for the rich, art stopped being something that took hundreds of hours to make, it became a product, and artists, now redubbed illustrators, began producing simplified art, however it was still realistic, and it still took a long time, so it looked good, see Leyendecker, Rockwell, and Loomis.
>Magazines
Printing presses are now in full swing, and everyone wants pictures in their magazines, and illustrators pump out dozens of images a week advertising everything from cars to suits. It was all still realism, but because of the increasing demand, and cheaper printing quality, the art had to be simplified.
This is where it all goes down hill. These are no longer beautiful works of art anymore.

>Comics
Comics came out of newspapers, the artists employed were the same artists who were once making magazine illustrations, and so they carried over the same techniques and approach, but this time for even cheaper printing, the art once again had to be simplified further, but it was still realistic.
Many of the early comics had a complete disdain for comics, considering it very low brow