Re: ARTS: You did say Comics -:)

From: CurtAdams@aol.com
Date: Thu Mar 14 2002 - 19:47:53 MST


In a message dated 3/14/02 16:56:59, natashavita@earthlink.net writes:

>For those of you interested in comic-strip visuals:
>
>The New York Times (3/14/02, Section B2) article" A Museum Gives Comic-Strip
>Works a New Cachet" (Stephen Kinzer) discusses the "dynamic and powerful
>aesthetic vocabularies that seize and sustain attention through the creative
>juxtaposition of words and images".

Just to put in a plug for "Understanding Comics" by Scott McCloud. It's a
analysis
of comics as art, done in comic book format, and it's superb. As he's
discussing
how comics can be used for unique and interesting goals, he's showing by
demonstration
that it's a suitable medium for artistic criticism. Wish he were at a
university
somewhere. Not hard to get; I've seen it in bookstores.



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