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...their obsession with obtaining pristine originals of favorite titles. Now, if they can't get those, they can at least own perfect digital copies on CD-ROM of 100 separate issues from the Spider-Man, X-Men, Incredible Hulk, Avengers, Captain America and other titles in Topics Entertainment's Marvel Comic Book Library ($30). We loved the content but found the presentation a bit flat: each book is displayed in your Web browser, and you must click on a thumbnail version of a page to see it up close. An interface free of toolbar clutter and a Next button...
...Science Fiction" is still debated, and embraced or shunned, i.e. over Margaret Atwood), but I think the war is over and we are stuck with "Graphic Novel" for better or worse. So, as much as I sympathize with Art Spiegelman and his desire not to be shelved next to Marvel's books, he is just wrong. Of course some Graphic Novels have a "seriousness of purpose," as he says, that superheroes or some manga don't have. Novels like "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" or "Fortress of Solitude" have a seriousness of purpose that the latest Clive Cussler...
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...become increasingly dissatisfying. "Maybe for a short window it was enough to say 'graphic novel' but soon it won't be," says Art Spiegelman, "because if you talk about [Chris Ware's] 'Jimmy Corrigan' as a graphic novel you'll have to explain that it's not manga or Marvel. Then you are left saying, 'well it's got a seriousness of purpose' that the phrase 'graphic novel' alone won't offer." On the positive side, the public awareness of these books has vastly increased, creating a kind of renaissance era of intense creativity and quality. Says Spiegelman, "Ultimately...
...business is concerned, I continually marvel that I’m able to still have a place in it. Those things that most interest me are increasingly marginalized,” Zwick says. “I sometimes feel as if I’m walking a razor’s edge between some kind of commercial viability, at the same time trying to hold on to whatever artistic integrity I need and deem important...