Go, Read: Tucker Stone On Nostalgia

I liked this piece by Tucker Stone on the perniciousness of comics nostalgia enough that it got me thinking what I'm nostalgic for and why. I'm not sure if I fall under his criticism or not. My own fascination with nostalgia is in the fragility of certain systems and the way that arbitrary choices on a minor level can have significant meaning for people to the point where they're treated as preordained. It's more complicated than that, though. When I hear a story about a 1970s comic shop whose patrons would visit the owner any time they pleased and if that happened to be at night they'd shop by camping lantern, I do find that incredibly endearing and hilarious. Yet I also find real value in a system that worked in such a modest fashion. Even as much as I know the horrors of industry history, there's something about people making money by shipping pulp to these bizarre cultural outposts that I find more appealing than working up a comic book so someone will buy your Sherlock Holmes screenplay. Anyway, interesting subject matter, and being around Yoshihiro Tatsumi even for ten minutes as he's been able to appreciate this wave of deserved adulation is one of comics' great experiences.
 
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