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Comic books haven't progressed, and i agree will not progress, in the way that fine art has. Ultimately I think that the comic book industry is one in which creativity must be 'smuggled' in beneath the radar of the medium's governors. Fine Art, on the other hand, at least in its post-Romantic form, promotes creativity above all else.
Of course, we could transfer this over to a comparison within cinema: between the Art House tradition, and the Hollywood studio system and remind ourselves that some of the greatest pieces of film art have emerged from some of the most ruthlessly cynical corporations imaginable. The fact that someone such as Fritz Lang had to smuggle his ideas against massive oppostion into a film like The Big Heat, while someone like Hal Hartley is given relative freedom to express his does not make Hartley the greater artist.
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