Comics
[13 Dec 02] Pipingrad. Dark. Sick. Hilarious. Go.
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Too Apathetic to Write a Title
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[20 Jun 02] Fascinating appreciation of—and criticism of—Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics as polemic, by New Zealand comics artist Dylan Horrocks [via LMG], picking up on some of its inconsistencies. (McCloud's exclusion of single-panel cartoons from his broad category of 'comics=sequential art' always bothered me: I'd argue that a speech caption on a single-panel cartoon incorporates time and therefore a kind of sequentiality. He's attempting to make a similar distinction to the one between movies and photographs, but then a photograph also becomes something quite different when a caption or talks-bubble is added to it, Private Eye-style; it becomes a photorealistic single-panel cartoon.)
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[11 Apr 02] Jonathan Ross meets Alan Moore: "when Idler HQ asked me if'd like to meet the great and beardy one, I rushed at the chance like Charlie Sheen at a porn starlet."
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[21 Feb 02] The Unh! Project [via LMG], home to Argggh!, Nnggnn, UUUa--a-- and Ooder!
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The Gospel According to Phil
[13 Feb 02] The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick [via LMG] is a very readable synthesis of the science fiction author's life-changing experiences of '2-3-74', written in comic book form by Robert Crumb. As with other evidence of Dick's strangeness, what I'm struck by is not so much what a weirdo he was—although he certainly was wonderfully weird—but the sense I get from all of his writing that there was a remarkably sane 'essence of PKD' observing all of this weirdness from inside and beside himself, and reporting it to the world. We get to read sane Phil's reports on insane Phil, if you like. More often than not it makes for enthralling reading.
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