Word: comix
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...comicbooks away from mere juvenilia. Now he's trying to push it back down the age ladder again. Co-edited with his wife, Francoise Mouly, Spiegelman has produced "Little Lit: Strange Stories for Strange Kids," a comicbook for children, or more accurately, a delightful album of sophisticated, G-rated comix...
...Little Lit " (Raw Junior, LLC; 64pp; $19.95) follows the principles of last year's best-selling "Little Lit: Folklore and Fairy Tale Funnies." Contributors include members of the comix "underground" as well as children's book illustrators and adult authors with no experience in the comicbook medium. These smartly-written, sumptuously colored comix then get published as a large-size hardcover collection so that even adults feel little when they turn the pages. Kids may like the fact that the hardcover makes it easier to draw on the pages...
...Richard McGuire. My favorite is Louis Trondheim's "A-Maze-ing Adventure," about a little guy who gets lost. The panels are arranged like a maze, not only presenting the story as a reflection of its contents, but also, by choosing different paths, creating different narratives. Hey kids, comix theory...
...Thanks to the intelligence of editors Spiegelman and Mouly you can't be too old to appreciate "Little Lit: Strange Stories for Strange Kids." The question is how young is too young? While some of the material will be over the heads of pre-literate children, comix have a language and syntax of images that can be absorbed at a very young age. You couldn't choose a better kind of "My-First-Comix" than this...
...moment, "Comics Decode" feels more like a comix social mixer than a show. (A perfectly legitimate ambition, but not one that encourages broader exposure.) It needs to get tighter and slicker. Keeping the number of participants down to three, with two big names and one lesser known "opener" would speed up the overlong proceedings. Likewise the readings should be done all in row, with an open panel afterwards for those who wish to stick around. With some tinkering "Comics Decode" could evolve into more than an attempt at broadening comix' appeal. It has the potential to explore added layers...