1. I want to talk a little about Parody/Pastiche as the beginning of creativity, with reference to Art Spiegelman, Jane Austen, Updike etc.
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2. Spiegelman has often talked about how the earliest pleasures in cartooning for him came from copying other artists, learning their styles
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3. We often think about art as mimesis, but surely the mimicry of art involves copying other artists as much as copying reality.
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4. Jane Austen learned to write novels in large part by parodying things like the Gothic novel (in her juvenilia & Northanger Abbey)
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5. Updike did two take-off of "On the Road": a straight parody ("On the Sidewalk") and an appropriation (Rabbit, Run).
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6. Austen & Updike example suggest that parody can be seen as a form of apprenticeship: first you mime, then you master.
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7. In Spiegelman's case, his instinct to parody aligned not just with learning craft but his analytical approach to cartooning.
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8. Even now, comics is a field with a thin critical literature, all the more so when Spiegelman started his career.
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9. Analytically inclined but working in a form with a thin critical literature, Spiegelman gravitated towards parody as a form of criticism.
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10. MT @llaurappark It's the natural start. way you start exploring what interests you.copying helps you decode what it is that attracts you
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11. Spiegelman's tropism towards parody/pastiche also deepened his affinity with Kurtzman/Elder's MAD comics parodies.
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12. In parodying comic strips like Bringing Up Father & Gasoline Alley, Kurtzman/Elders also gave first real critical reading of those works
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