You Heard Him Right: D&Q’s Chris Oliveros Said “Kurtzman” and “Crumb”



There are a lot of standard, boilerplate articles that you come to recognize if you follow press on comics for a long enough time. One is the "Local Cartoonist Profile," where the hometown newspaper takes notice of some creator in their midst and gives them a write-up. A classic is the "Comics Aren't For Kids Anymore" article, which have in the last decade shattered into a dozen or so different approaches to the subject of comics, all sporting a peculiar variation on the basic "biff, bam, pow" formula.

One of my absolute favorites is when a publisher believes in a project so much they roll up their sleeves and grab the microphone and make the case for one of their projects. This is extremely delightful right now because a lot of publishers are operating at a consistent level they've never enjoyed before. There are a whole lot of pretty good projects coming out every month, that for a publisher to point at one I think is worth noting. I enjoyed talking to Kim Thompson about Jacques Tardi a while back; now you can add to category this piece by Chris Oliveros from D&Q extolling the pleasures of reading their Doug Wright collection. I think that piece is a blast to read, because it's clear Oliveros is speaking out of great enthusiasm and sincerity, and that he might even be slightly fearful that this unique publishing circumstance might come and go without enough people taking notice.

I'm looking forward to seeing and providing additional coverage to D&Q's Doug Wright project, and while I don't know where in the pantheon I might place him when I'm done, you have to admit the samples we've seen so far are super-pretty, just lovely-looking things. The great thing about cartooning is that sometimes the texture and feel of the way cartoonists approach the form can be as important as the content of the narratives. That's why, to use a famous example, you can look at an end table drawn by Charles Schulz and feel his entire world through its line. I suspect that's a quality these cartoons may have divorced from their greatness as comics themselves; I look forward to finding out.
 
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