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March 2, 2006


Go, Read: Seth, Ware, Maresca; Ware

imageGo here for a lengthy and readable review by Gabriel Greenberg of Wimbledon Green, ACME Novelty Library #16 and So Many Splendid Sundays, all through the prism of comic book as object. I don't agree with a lot of the analysis, but the writer presents his case in effective. Two specific leaps of logic didn't carry me along with them. First, I think Greenberg's comparisons to the production qualities of a comic book are way too loosely selected; the frame of a painting is a bad comparison, the font, binding and illustration qualities of a book are not, but I don't think they serve an essentialist argument as he implies. Second, I think Greenberg frequently assumes a universal quality to his own hard-won observations that just aren't earned. I know three people who aren't hardcore comics collectors that understood the jokes in Wimbledon Green, for instance, and were able to process the specifics of that story according to a general knowledge of obsessive collecting. Still, some food for thought. You could also go here for an oddly compartmentalized critique of Chris Ware's work.
 
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