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| From | "Michael Bennett" <mrhonorama@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Dave Cockrum |
| Date | Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:17:29 -0600 |
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I still have to delve more into Krazy Kat -- looking at single strips
doesn't really shed light on its greatness. If we're mentioning the great,
in addition to a ditto on Will Eisner's The Spirit (I'm v. happy that I got
to see Eisner chat with Neil Gaiman at the Chicago Humanities Festival a few
years ago), two of my other faves are Walt Kelly's Pogo and the most recent
classic, Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes.
Mike Bennett
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>From: "John L. Micek" <jlmicek@comcast.net>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: <audities@smoe.org>, "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net>
>Subject: Re: Dave Cockrum
>Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:19:51 -0500
>
>>>From: "Alan Haber" <zoogang@cox.net>
>>> > Alan,
>>> > who shall forever be grateful to the New York Comicon for
>>> > introducing me to Winsor McKay, creator of the greatest newspaper
>>> > comic strip that ever was, Little Nemo in Slumberland
>>>
>>>Nah. Tales of the Rarebit Fiend was better. And frankly, Krazy Kat
>>>shreds 'em both.
>>
>>True. And if you count The Spirit as a newspaper strip, then that's
>>head and shoulders in the lead. But McKay also did some of the most
>>important early animation, so he still wins over Herriman.
>>BTW, anyone who's not reading Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely's
>>All-Star Superman has no soul.
>>
>But nnone of those guys would have gotten there without Milton Caniff's
>trail-blazing work with Terry & The Pirates. His art still stands head and
>shoulders above the rest. And I say that as a hardcore Eisner fan.
>I've got plenty of soul. But Morrison's work on All-Star Superman pissed me
>off.
>For my money, the best mainstream comic being written today is Mark
>Andreyko's "Manhunter" series for DC.
>
>jlm.
>
>
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