FFF Results Post #304—Underappreciated

On Friday, CR readers were asked to: 1. Pick A North American Cartoonist -- One With Whom You Have No Personal Or Professional Relationship -- That You Feel Is Under-Appreciated; 2-4. Pick Three Works That -- In Order -- You Would Have People Better Appreciate; 5. Briefly Describe Your Preferred Career Profile For This Person." This is how they responded.



Tom Spurgeon

1. Ben Katchor
2. The Cardboard Valise
3. The strip for Metropolis
4. Julius Knipl
5. More frequently mentioned in North America's first class; new book releases become a much bigger event.

*****



Charles Brownstein

1. Tom Hart
2. Hutch Owen: Unmarketable
3. New Hat
4. The Sands
5. Coherent backlist program initiated to resemble Black Sparrow Press treatment of similar poetic voices that is rewarded by a strong enough readership to ensure it stays in print; new work received as a notable art comics event.

*****



Dave Knott

1. Tom Neely
2. The Blot
3. The Wolf
4. Doppelgänger
5. Better distribution of his works into both comics shops and traditional bookstores. More attention paid to him outside of the indie comics world.

*****



Marc Arsenault

1. James Sherman
2. The Transmutation of Ike Garuda
3. Legion of Superheroes
4. Misc. 80s and 90s comics including American Splendor and Steelgrip Starkey.
5. One on those handful of creators that dropped in to work on mainstream comics briefly in their art career and turned in work that was of a notably high quality and of a style that was very different from his peers. Mentioned in that context alongside Sid Check, Bernard Krigstein and Jim Steranko.

*****



Benjamin Humeniuk

1.) Doug TenNapel
2.) TommySaurus Rex
3.) Black Cherry
4.) Gear
5.) I'd like to see him realized as the C.S. Lewis of North American comics: someone who contributes meaningful work to efforts outside of their popularly recognized material (for Lewis, it'd be his work as a professor, medieval scholar, and critic; for TenNapel, it'd be his animation, video game, and illustration portfolios) and who tells reasonably entertaining stories in an all-ages milieu with an explicitly (but not cloyingly) Christian worldview. Scholastic clearly views him as a stablemate with Jeff Smith and Kazu Kibishi, but he's also got some edgier fare in his Image catalog.

*****



Joe Keatinge

1. Al Columbia
2. "The Trumpets They Play!" from Blab #10
3. The Biologic Show #0 & 1
4. Pim & Francie: The Golden Bear Days
5. I guess this is sort of dependent on there being more public output, but I wish we lived in a world where we had a 12-volume Complete Al Columbia hardcover series. That being said, I rarely hear about him or even his biggest release, Pim & Francie: The Golden Bear Days, being discussed by anyone but other cartoonists, writers, artists, etc. I want him to be someone who's praised just as highly, regularly and publicly as R. Crumb, Daniel Clowes, Chris Ware, Adrian Tomine, etc. Where's my Paris Review interview with Al Columbia?

*****



Shannon Smith

1) Gabby Schulz and/or Ken Dahl
2) Sick (webcomic)
3) Welcome to The Dahlhouse
4) Sexism (webcomic)
5) I'd like to see magazines and websites paying Schulz to travel around the country and make comics about his experiences. Which, is to say I'd like to see him getting paid to do what he's been doing already so that I can see it more frequently.

*****



Josh Leto

1. Roger Langridge
2. Fred the Clown Collection
3. Zoot
4. Snarked
5. New book/books treated like a great new comic, not a great new "kids" or "humor" comic.

*****



Sean Kleefeld

1. Sean Wang
2. Runners
3. The Tick and Arthur
4. Meltdown
5. His self-published comics sell well enough by themselves to earn him a good living, possibly with some licensing deals; sufficient enough that he could retitle his personal website "Sean Wang Comics" instead of "Sean Wang Illustration & Comics"

****



Jeet Heer

1. David Collier
2. Chimo
3. Portraits from Life
4. Just the Facts.
5. To be seen as the peer of Pekar and Sacco in doing non-fiction comics.

*****



M. Emery

1. David Lapham
2. Stray Bullets
3. Young Liars
4. Murder Me Dead
5. Publisher support for an ongoing gig writing and drawing his own stories, El Capitan books back in print, Another fifty issues of Young Liars.

*****



Oliver Ristau

1.) Paul Hornschemeier
2.) Mother, Come Home
3.) The Three Paradoxes
4.) Huge Suit
5.) Changing the fact that Hornschemeier has a longer Wikipedia entry in German than in English. Changing the fact that Wikipedia has no entries in any other language on Hornschemeier with the exception of those mentioned in the sentence before.

*****



Danny Ceballos

1. Kelly Froh
2. The Five Year Itch of Dorothy Barry
3. two days away from staring at birds from a park bench
4. SLITHER (Issue 5 - with the bonus insert "My voice is sexy when you close your eyes")
5. To see her acknowledged as one of the best autobiographical cartoonists working today; would like to see a steady stream of longer works put out by her through some smart and fancy publisher

*****



William Burns

1. Dame Darcy
2. Meatcake
3. Gasoline
4. Frightful Fairy Tales
5. Work more widely reviewed in the comics press and comics internet, part of the conversation on gender and comics.

*****



John Platt

1. Matt Howarth
2. Keif Llama, Xeno-Tech
3. Savage Henry
4. Crazy for the Girl
5. Omnibus reprint editions; Hugo Award; Musical retrospective; Recognition as digital comix pioneer

*****



Jake Kujava

1. Ted Stern
2. Fuzz and Pluck's Adventures Begin
3. Fuzz and Pluck's Splitsville
4. Fuzz & Pluck’s in serially quarterly anthology MOME.
5. New collection of stories and Fuzz and Pluck cartoon show

*****



Alan David Doane

1. James Kochalka
2. Fantastic Butterflies
3. Magic Boy and Girlfriend
4. Quit Your Job
5. Creative focus more on longform graphic novels of the type exemplified by Fantastic Butterflies, which I think is Kochalka's most undervalued work, and full of the magical realism that makes the daily American Elf strip so appealing. I miss Kochalka finding ways to intersect all his interests and relationships in longer stories.

*****
*****
 
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