{"id":291,"date":"2004-07-15T11:02:45","date_gmt":"2004-07-15T15:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=291"},"modified":"2007-03-05T07:09:01","modified_gmt":"2007-03-05T12:09:01","slug":"funny-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/funny-books","title":{"rendered":"Funny Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

Really long article on comics<\/a>, by Charles McGrath in the New York Times<\/em>. Oh, wait. It’s about graphic novels<\/em>, not comics. My bad.<\/p>\n

It actually has some good points about the narrative form, and some neat comments from cartoonists. It doesn’t really get into the finances of the business, which is integral to understanding the development of comics.<\/p>\n

I’ll write more extensively about the subject soon, as it’s something I care about a lot. I’m not sure how such a massive article on comics can get published without mentioning (like it or not) the work of Dave Sim, who recently finished a 300-issue serial written and drawn monthly over the course of twenty-seven years, but we’ve all got our lacunae, I guess.<\/p>\n

And it’s “McCloud,” not “McLoud.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Really long article on comics, by Charles McGrath in the New York Times. Oh, wait. It’s about graphic novels, not comics. My bad. It actually has some good points about the narrative form, and some neat comments from cartoonists. It doesn’t really get into the finances of the business, which is integral to understanding the … <\/p>\n

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