19. I can't stand Lynda Barry's art or writing. I even lack an appreciation for why others might like her work. Don't understand it at all.
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20. R. Crumb's work isn't just juvenile and offensive, it's unreadable.
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21. Chronicle is the best superhero movie. (Even with the racist trope of the black friend whose primary function is to die.)
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22.a. Most comics criticism is even worse than you'd expect. Online reviewers/bloggers need to read more books & criticism. But...
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22.b. ...scholars are no better. Academics need to interact with fans. Thing that was first written in 2004? Fans discussed it in the 90s.
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23. Basically all pencillers-turned-writers are terrible writers.
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More specifically, I'd name Frank Miller and Jack Kirby. And virtually every good cartoonist in alternative tradition.
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I don't think Miller's writing survives consideration sans graphics. As for small press cartoonists, aren't most both at once?
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The fact that Miller's writing & art are perfectly integrated is a virtue, not a flaw. Same also Eisner, Barks,, Kurtzman
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That 'perfect integration' lacks poetry for me - Miller is all text, no subtext. The words add no new layers, just reiterate.
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