Go, Read: Dave Stevens & Nostalgia

Dan Nadel has a short and fairly fascinating piece up at Comics Comics on his experiences reading Brush With Passion: The Life & Art Of Dave Stevens. Nadel seems intrigued by the late Stevens' apparent unhappiness with his artistic development, and what that means as expressed by an artist with his legacy, inclinations and place in a very specific sub-culture. It rattles apart fairly quickly, I think due to some specific ideological constructs Nadel brings to his portrait of those overlapping sub-cultures, a sweeping set of claims and emphases that I'm not sure he all-the-way earns. Even if you disagree with Nadel on specifics, I think there's something to be said for the example he provides in stepping back and realizing that so many artists with an interest in comics remain unfulfilled and that the culture that surrounds comics might play a role in enabling this long-lingering hopelessness.
 
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