Category Archives: idiosyncratic
COMICS: AN IDIOSYNCRATIC EXAMINATION, PART FIVE (Interlude of the Superheroes)
With a few exceptions, Superhero Comics worked best, and made the most sense, in the Silver Age. Although the genre was born decades earlier, it was a product of the Pulp Era of magazine publishing, and the early work, while … Continue reading
COMICS: AN IDIOSYNCRATIC EXAMINATION, PART FOUR (A jaunt on the high seas of art with Captain Eddie Campbell and How To Be An Artist)
As I’ve mentioned ad nauseum, I have a long and abiding love of the autobiographical work of Mr. Eddie Campbell– a man perhaps forever followed by “the artist best known, along with writer Alan Moore, for creating From Hell.” I’ve … Continue reading
COMICS: AN IDIOSYNCRATIC EXAMINATION, PART THREE (30 Days of Night, five minutes of sorrow)
There’s probably a very dense and boring book published by Fantagraphics tracing the development of Cinematographic Technique in comics– beginning surely with E.C. and the endlessly flogged “Master Race” of Krigstein– but I think it’s fair to say that the … Continue reading
COMICS: AN IDIOSYNCRATIC EXAMINATION, PART TWO (in which we examine Phonogram)
Is there such a thing as an Ideal Comic, and would anyone be foolish enough to try defining it? Sure, why not? Here’s a working definition: “A narrative which functions most perfectly within graphic illustration.” Clunky, but it hits the … Continue reading
COMICS: AN IDIOSYNCRATIC EXAMINATION (part one)
Over the last few years there’s been so much upper middle class blather about comics as fine art that it’s overshadowed a far more significant development: the embrace of manga by the West’s 13 year old girls. In the not … Continue reading