The other field of interest is finding books or
essays on comic book artists, because criticism is an important way to develop comics.
Not exact matches
Essentially, it continues the chase after the youth market for reasons first extrapolated in a 1954 Robert Warshow
essay on then burgeoning pop culture (specifically
comic books) that identified the appearance of «newness» as the basic attraction for a targeted audience.
In a summer during the early - to - mid sixties, I surreptitiously acquired a copy of a specific issue of Playboy — not for the pictures, though those were nice, but for an
essay on The Great
Comic Book Heroes, by Jules Feiffer.
Other contents include an
essay by Karl Ove Knausgaard (presented as a removable
book); 100 frames from Lotte Reininger's 1926 animation The Adventures of Prince Achmed introduced by John Canemaker; two film treatments by screenwriter Hampton Fancher (Blade Runner), based
on Esopus subscribers» submissions; anonymous photographs from the collection of Peter Cohen; materials from MoMA's archives
on events and installations in the Museum's garden over the past 60 years; a piece
on the creative process behind the survivalist game The Long Dark; a new installment of a regular series, «Guarded Opinions,» for which guards from the Barnes Foundation discuss works they oversee; a
comic book by George Cochrane; and a CD of new music inspired by «close calls» experienced by 15 musicians, including Jo Lawry, YC the Cynic and Lemolo.
I post exhibition reviews, art
book reviews, reports
on comics and illustration,
essays on a broad range of concerns within visual art, special publications, and reports from my studio.