Go, Read: Dan Nadel On Milo Manara, Milton Caniff, Richard Sala

Dan Nadel has a nice piece up at The Comics Journal on a trio of master cartoonists that are only rarely invited to the alt-comics appreciation party -- Milo Manara, Alex Raymond, Milton Caniff -- as well as a few notes on the always-overlooked Richard Sala. It's a nice, smart reading of the material Nadel has in front of him, and seems to continue a thread that has been winding through some of the stuff you may have read here in the last several weeks: how cartoonists and critics whose primary interests seem to lie in authorial idiosyncratic comics-making process works by incredibly skilled practitioners of the art form who had either no interest or a diminished interest in making that kind of art. Think of Colleen Coover citing Caniff as a major influence or Oliver East admitting to not quite getting some of the great mainstream comic book artists of the past. That should be a fruitful discussion for years to come.
 
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