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NYT Magazine: Are Comics The New Mainstream Novels?
securitas writes "The New York Times Magazine cover story this week is a (typically) long feature about the rise of comic books and graphic novels into mainstream culture, with writer Charles McGrath (former editor of the Book Review) stating: 'Comic books are what novels used to be -- an accessible, vernacular form with mass appeal ... perfectly suited to our dumbed-down culture and collective attention deficit.' McGrath cites the mid-1980s birth of a movement that began and fizzled with Maus (Art Spiegelman), Love & Rockets (Hernandez Bros.) Watchmen (Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons) and Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (Frank Miller). The current renaissance in graphic novels include non-fiction Palestine (Sacco), non-fiction Persepolis (Satrapi) which has sold 450,000 copies, Ghost World (Clowes), American Splendor (Pekar), Road to Perdition (Collins) and Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, which won the 2001 Guardian Prize for best first book and has sold 100,000 in hardcover. McGrath interviews Marjane Satrapi, Julie Doucet, Joe Sacco, Art Spiegelman, and Alan Moore, among others. The article also has a multimedia interactive feature with many of the graphic novelists (registration required) in the magazine article."
3million links in the article summary. Which one do I read? Which one?
But they are the best pre-built visualizations for selling Hollywood on a movie. And the only thing Hollywood hates more than giving gross points is reading.
It might just be my imaginiation, but the golden age of comics is over, with all those web comics swamping the already broad selection it's hard to find a decent one.
Not to mention cathy, someone shoot the creator already
I kninda fell in love with Wulff Morgenthaler though, humour that's sick enough for me.
Oprah: Hey y'all!! I've gotta new book for Oprah's Book Club© today!! It's the latest issue of "100 Bullets"!
Book Club Member 1: I really enjoyed this issue Oprah.
Book Club Member 2: Me too, when the protagonist exacted his revenge in the three page, four color graphics, I was moved.
Book Club Member 3: I was able to rediscover the goddess within!
I don't think comics are the new novel.
"Here's a spoiler: You're will die alone."-Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
...when people on the street start speaking in word ballons.
You must be new here...
Mother is the best bet and don't let Satan draw you too fast.
(Turning back to my copy of Radioactive Commander Tacoman Comics.)
Perfectly suited to our dumbed-down culture and collective attention deficit...
Maybe, who's gonna RTFA to find out?