Go, Read: Tim Kreider’s Introduction To His TCJ Cerebus Piece

They've excerpted the beginning chunk of Tim Kreider's massive and insightful essay on Cerebus at TCJ.com. Kreider is one of the very best writers-about-comics, so good it's difficult to imagine doing anything else, even though his critical writing makes up only a small part of the calendar year. I look forward to writing about Cerebus myself, but I suspect that to do it justice I would have to make it the only comic I read for a while. There's so much tangential material to process in the course of reading Sim's work that to be also reading ten, fifteen, forty-five other comics narratives during the course of reading Cerebus would seem to do it an injustice.

Kreider mentions that Cerebus didn't make the TCJ Top 100 list for comics works in the 20th Century. Cerebus was probably the book least well-served by the rules we put into place in compiling the lists. We placed a premium on agreement between writers to keep a critic from rushing in with a personal favorite and getting a work no one else felt strongly about on the list. While there were votes for the comic book overall as well as High Society, Jaka's Story and Church and State, there seemed to be little agreement over which one was worth of inclusion. With the Hernandez Brothers, there was a much greater range of support for certain works. That may not have been the wisest group of standards a magazine has ever put together, but I swear it wasn't a direct blackballing.
 
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