Question for the heads: what marked the formal ‘birth’ of U.S. comics criticism in coordinated publication? I don’t mean isolated books like Coulton Waugh’s, but criticism as an exchange. Was it Fantasy Illustrated becoming Graphic Story Monthly in ‘67? Earlier fanzines?
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Obviously, this will ensnare us in qualitative evaluations of what sort of fanzine writing constitutes ‘criticism’... in the absence of clearly-defined terms.
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Graphic Story Monthly definitely was the precursor for a lot of the Comics Journal style criticism but I think EC fanzines & Barks fanzines of 1950s & early 1960s were equally important. I'm thinking here of John Benson & Michael Barrier.
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