July 01, 2004
Behold, My Super-Insight Ray!
If you've missed my contributions today, I apologize. I've been obsessively reading Quarter Bin, which contains perhaps the best writing on comic books that I've ever encountered. The author deftly weaves together some truly important history (both of the books and the industry), humorous light analysis, and some deeply savvy explications of the cultural and artistic influences that have shaped comics in certain eras, as well as over time. Sadly, it looks like the site is not regularly updated, but you can still enjoy the astonishingly prolific Ouzomandias's musing on, say, the temporal boundaries of the Silver Age of comics, overviews of non-superhero comics genres, the worst superhero costumes of the 1980's, or why (the generally inconsequential) Cable is the most representative superhero of the 1990s. This index page is fun - click on any random one of fifty articles, and I guarantee you'll come up with something good.
Nice find. This article on Calvin and Hobbes is particularly good:
http://www.quarterbin.net/tomb/tm07.html
Damn you SNW!!!
That site has kept me from working at all, thereby destroying my shoddily uphelp facade of working. I haven't even shuffled stacks of paper around.
uphelp? upheld
I wouldn't normally point this out, but since you seem to have a habit of correcting your typos in subsequent comments... there's this nifty little button at the bottom, right next to the submit button, named "Preview". It's really useful. :)
well I'll be!!
Its right there!
Btw, I just found this comics-devoted blog:
http://www.comicon.com/thebeat/
Always glad to contribute to delinquency - though it'd be a whole lot cooler if you were a minor.
Also, Greg, not only can you preview your comments, you can edit them after you've posted if you go through the admin page. This may only be on threads you started, though. Regardless, it's fun, it's like playing Stalin and the Ministry of Information!