 However, he lamented that it had received a "paucity of attention or discussion since" its debut.Scott McCloud, who authored the preliminary draft of the Bill, wrote that “[t]he Bill never generated much noise in the industry and I wouldn't want to exaggerate its influence, but it provides an interesting snapshot of our attitudes at the time, and of the climate that was fueling self-publishers, progressive business people, and artists trying to reinvent the comics industry.” McCloud also said that "The Bill got very little play in the comics press...I don’t think that many mainstream publishers gave the Bill much thought at all.