Word: groth
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...describe my experience reading Gibbs' account, I want to say what a wonderfully written piece it is: full of solid information but thoughtful and at times poetic without being corny or hyperbolic. A very, very nice job accomplished under what I assume was tremendous pressure. KRISTINE GROTH Minneapolis, Minn...
...Gary Groth and Mike Catron purchased the rights to a dying fanzine called "The Nostalgia Journal," and published it as "The New Nostalgia Journal." Soon renamed the "The Comics Journal," it began by publishing an expose of the sleazy dealings the publishers had with another fanzine owner. Unprecedentedly juicy for a "fan" magazine but way overlong and self-involved, the piece immediately established the contradictory nature of the "Journal" that continues to this...
...print. Their exhaustive and exhausting interviews with all the most important creators in the field have no equal in length, if not always in revelation. Likewise the reviews are given the space for critical, in-depth analysis that more broad forums prohibit. Thanks to Editor-in-Chief Gary Groth, the "Journal" remains uniquely focused on the artistic merits of the medium...
...better and worse "The Comics Journal" without Groth would be like "Playboy" without Hef. Groth's cranky, anti-establishment-bordering-on-reactionary tone permeates the "Journal." He wrathfully loathes the majority of comics and will ask unwitting interview subjects questions like, "Why are you in favor of the production of more cretinous, illiterate drivel?" While this attitude creates an island of critical freedom against the crushing mainstream, it also isolates the magazine as elitist and intimidates the fence-sitters or casual readers. It signals "Stay Away!" to all but the most determined...