Word: comicality
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...taken it upon himself to dramatize texts’ suggestions about the postmodern subject who has absorbed high and low—Vergil, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, comic books, and Fascist propaganda—all in one breath. The question is how much we can care about a protagonist who, in the course of 450 pages, does little but indulge in his ruminations...
Poetry used to be the emperor of the literary universe, but lately it has been overshadowed by almost every other genre - novels, comic books, self-help - or just channeled into other media, like rock and hip-hop. These days most bookstores stock a few odd volumes on a back shelf, and most of those are written by singer Jewel. But people are still writing poetry and finding ways to say things no other medium can - if you have the time to stop and listen...
...troubled times, people often turn to nostalgia for relief - well, certain kinds of people anyway. Comic fans may be a prime example, with their almost instinctive need to horde their favorite titles and authors to keep the golden moments of the past close at hand. In what may be a comment on our times, comic publishers have begun catering heavily to this market with such complete reprint series as Fantagraphics' Krazy and Ignatz, reprinting George Herriman's "Krazy Cat," and their best-selling Complete Peanuts line of hardcovers. Now, Montreal's Drawn & Quarterly has joined in with perhaps the most...
...always go on to wow 'em at the plexes. For every Blair Witch Project (bought at Park City in 1999 for $1 million; earned $140.5 million) there are a dozen like Happy, Texas (bought the same year for $10 million; earned $1.9 million). In a film summer dominated by comic-book heroes and special effects, it's a long shot for an underdog to prove itself...
Those of you who associate historical comic books with the stiff, well-meaning give-aways at school or church will be surprised at the variety and quality of such comix now available. Some of them view history through the lens of personal experience, as in Art Spiegelman's Maus, about his father's internment in Nazi concentration camps. Others, such as Chester Brown's Louis Riel, about a mystical agitator in 19th century Canada, create novelized versions of the lives of historical characters. Rick Geary has become something of a specialist in historical comix, producing half a dozen hardcover books...