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Splish splash splish splash splish splash splosh!
Sploom.
Is that the sound of a hideous fiend approaching us from the neighbouring swamp?
I suspect it's not.
I suspect it's the sound of the internet's most talked about feature approaching, because it seems that that's the sound it makes.
I am, indubitably, referring to the feature in which only You the Reader may choose the night's topic for debate.
But what will it be?
I cannot say.
Therefore, feel free to post it in the comments section below and let us hope the gators don't get us.
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Charlie just read a new, most-excellent graphic novel: “Dr Wethless”. It is about Dr. Wertham who worked tirelessly to reduce the comic book industry in the US to purely funny books (and maybe even eliminate them) in the 1950s.
Opinions on Wortham’s activities?
As an aside, the guy was a humanitarian as well, being instrumental in overturning “separate but equal “ laws in the US school system in the 1950s.
And of course if anyone elae has subjects please post!
I’ll look that up, Charlie - thanks!
I have a vanilla comics question…
What comic artists were you once blazingly enthusiastic about but aren’t any more? Why - and when did the change take place?
Conversely, anyone you weren’t keen on but have come to appreciate? And why / when?
Charlie - Regarding comics, funny or serious is a false alternative ( regarding some titles), suggesting the geezer's comics knowledge is superficial. Peanuts is both funny & serious. Spidey makes jokes about "losing face", whilst tearing off a samurai warrior's mask. There's also Howard the Duck...
Phillip
Matthew - I think my art prejudices have remained the same, but I'll have to mull over it!
Phillip
MM - good one. I am too old and not current to answer this in the present tense.
I can say that I am more tolerant of Fr@nk R@bbins art though after reading copies od Shadow and Invaders to keep up with SDC.
Also I appreciate Gil Kane’s little run on Spidey in the early 1970s now. Prior to that, his work on Atom, Green Lantern was nice but boring. After that, he became ubiquitous and predictable.
But his Spidey’s around ASM 100 are a delight! Again I owe this to SDC, digging books out of the long boxes covered in 40 -50 years of dust.
And I still have a slavish devotion to Kirby, Steranko, Colan, Everett, John Buscema. And Aparo and Kubert.
Wertham was after elimanating violence and racism and misogyny in all forms in comics, whether Road Runner and Wiley Coyote or Vault of Horror or Charlie Brown os Spidey variants. Hope that helps. CH
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