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...film. The Film Studies at Harvard program, which has been under construction for several decades, was finally cemented last year. At one point Harvard, like many other established universities, struggled to accept film as a credible academic pursuit. Now, however, the university officially recognizes the value of what Timothy Corrigan, the University of Pennsylvania’s Director of Cinema Studies, calls in an e-mail “a central cultural and intellectual force in society.” The formerly avant-garde field is evolving into a downright standard presence at major schools, and the departments boast distinguished...
...panel is art, but the original comic panel it draws on is not considered art," Spiegelman says. Slowly, that attitude evolved as people learned to appreciate comics in all their uniqueness. "Comics require that the viewer read pictures, not look at them," says Chris Ware, author-artist of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth and one of the medium's reigning grand masters. "This is a peculiar means of apprehension that really has no precedent in Western...
Ware, still fresh from his success with “Jimmy Corrigan,” is a foil to Burns. Ware has just released a collection of his serial “ACME Novelty Library,” unknown to most of us but beloved by those in the know...
...beautifully decorated volume, designed to look like a vintage ledger complete with an intricate gold patterned cover, is Ware’s most upbeat work to date. This will be a relief to those who were all certain of dying alone after reading “Jimmy Corrigan,” the story of a lonely office drone with an abusive and fragmented family. While The New Yorker praised that “Jimmy Corrigan” was “viciously depressing” in the best sense of art, a friend of mine put it best...
...ACME Novelty Library” volume is a departure from what attracted so many readers to “Jimmy Corrigan.” “ACME” contains despicably wonderful losers such as Rusty Brown, a more realistic and thus more disgusting version of Comic Book Guy; the hapless future citizen in “Tales of Tomorrow;” Chalky White, the good-hearted Midwestern father willfully blinded to his teenaged daughter’s unfocused rage; and Quimby the Mouse, the obscene and ill-tempered doppleganger of the 1920s Mickey Mouse...