Ideas In Bullet Form: Comics Manifesto, Publishing Failures Manifest

* here's an honest to goodness comics manifesto, the kind of which I might have actually debated sitting over an omelet at Beth's Cafe at 4 o'clock in the morning in the winter of 1995 until someone told me to stop it. At this point in my life, I'd rather finish this Red Riding series from Netflix or take another shot at Boswell than debate anything, but don't let my old age stop your fun. The gist of it seems to be that the graphic novel's true impact was to obliterate rather than calcify all standard definitions of what a comic can be, and that the true organizing principle of the field should be the unfettered exploration and ambition that comes with the demolition of these tendentious shackles. Or something like that. It's kind of fun to read, anyway, and it's pretty well-illustrated.

* James Russell Ament presents some received wisdom from Seth Godin in the form of a list of mistakes that big publishers make, which isn't comics-focused at all but has all sorts of obvious -- albeit debatable -- lessons for comics makers big, small, and peripheral.
 
posted 9:00 am PST | Permalink
 

---

 
Daily Blog Archives
November 2019
October 2019
September 2019
August 2019
July 2019
 
Full Archives