Go, Read: Eddie Campbell’s Review of RC Harvey’s New Caniff Biography

I found Eddie Campbell's recent piece on RC Harvey's new, massive biography of Milton Caniff a thoughtful and even intermittently elegant short piece of writing. That no one sees Caniff as an obvious influence on Campbell I think points to a massive and unfortunate shortcoming in the way comics are processed now, namely an inability to recognize that a certain kind of dramatic sensibility can at times be just as sophisticated and knowing about the human condition as, say, a humorous framework that reaches people in a similarly broad fashion. Plus Campbell finds a really good scan of a comic that I drove myself nuts trying to find earlier this year, the Terry and the Pirates goodbye strip. I think that's a great strip in a lot of ways, not the least of which being the craft with which it's accomplished, an element that has its own sweep and pull independent of everything else.
 
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