In the mid 1040's oops 1940's I remember the excitement of seeing AMERICAN
COMICKS!!wow Flash Gordon !!
Am 'rereading'Gaiman's Miracleman Golden Age
Also Ian Miller 'Secret Art' never managed to read the verse by Barry King
(perhaps I am a pics person at heart!)
P
Even our local library has graphic novels but you have to shove the
teenagers out of the way
Cheers P graphic P
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poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Roger Day
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Subject: Re: P.S.
Yeah, the Watchmen. Definitely a favorite. I had the original
print-run. But not in the plastic sleeves, I may add. Lovingly
thumbed. A wrench to part with.
Roger
On 8/10/06, Frederick Pollack <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> From: "MJ Walker" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Subject: Re: "Innocence"
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>
> > and as far as graphic novels are concerned
>
> Gaiman is good but he can get cloying -- my tastes are harder-edged. The
> classics are The Watchmen by Alan Moore, The Dark Knight Returns by Frank
> Miller, and V for Vendetta, also by Moore. The first Batman film w/
Michael
> Keaton captured a small part of The Dark Knight; the film of V a smaller
> part of that book. You might check out the Miracleman series, which is
hard
> to find in the US; Moore worked on one of them, Gaiman on another (The
> Golden Age, the art in which is exceptional). I also recommend Daniel
> Clowes, esp. Ghost World. Movie also made of that. Interesting to
> compare - quite a good movie, but incapable of recreating the impression
> made by every panel of the original: that this is in fact a world of the
> dead.
>
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