1. Someone should do a review comparing two new books, Mark Grief's "The Age of the Crisis of Man" and Michael Barrier's "Funnybooks"
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2. The Greif and Barrier books arrived at the same time and I've been reading in and around them simultaneously. They couple well together.
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3. Both books are about midcentury American culture -- roughly 1930s to 1970s -- and how artists responded to changing world.
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5. Greif's book is about how anthropological universal (capital-M Man) dissolved of internal contradictions as it tried to expand purview.
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6. Greif's major case studies are Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, Flannery O'Connor & Thomas Pynchon.
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7. Barrier's book is about Dell Comic books, focusing on work of Carl Barks (Uncle Scrooge), Walt Kelly (Pogo) & John Stanley (Little Lulu)
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8. What's interesting is that the same dynamics Greif describes in American novel also very evident in Dell comic books.
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9. Barks, Kelly & Stanley all worked with "everyman" characters who weren't men but animals or kids (Donald Duck, Pogo, Little Lulu).
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@VinnieTesla Donald Duck, not Scrooge.
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