Comics You Should Read


	Comics You Should Read

zizzy

11-7-2009 1:07 PM

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comics, pop culture, reading list

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The "1000 Comics You Must Read" link opens an Amazon.com page.

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Douglas Wolk’s excellent 2007  volume "<A href="http://www.perseusbooksgroup.com/dacapo/book_detail.jsp?isbn=0306815095">Reading Comics</A>" even takes great pains to avoid such a burden—“I’m more  interested in starting discussions (and arguments) about comics than settling  them with any kind of self-appointed authority</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/blog/sean-howe/comics-you-should-read">The closest thing  we’ve had to an authoritative list is <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Comics_Journal#Top_100_Comics_list">the one put forth</A> by the <EM>Comics Journal</EM> ten years ago. Though full of great work, this list is wilfully elite:  there are no superheroes in the top 30</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/blog/sean-howe/comics-you-should-read">the <EM>Comics Journal</EM> list needs a counterweight, and  now it has one in "<A href="http://www.amazon.com/000-Comic-Books-Must-Read/dp/0896899217">1000 Comics You Must Read</A>", a full-colour survey of sequential art over the past 70  years</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/blog/sean-howe/comics-you-should-read">1000 Comics" has a  definite superhero slant</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/blog/sean-howe/comics-you-should-read">the  two lists serve as correctives to one another</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/blog/sean-howe/comics-you-should-read"> Together they not  only set a neophyte on the right track but also put an experienced reader in  clover</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/blog/sean-howe/comics-you-should-read">On that note</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/blog/sean-howe/comics-you-should-read">we’re off to find a copy of 1957’s "Caught" #5</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/blog/sean-howe/comics-you-should-read">We might  never have heard of it otherwise</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/blog/sean-howe/comics-you-should-read"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.moreintelligentlife.com/img/ECE466E7-39F0-4277-8751-5D569EB0B7DE" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0B0B83A8-E1C9-44D2-829B-42A611941860/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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