I’ve been reading Masters of American Comics for the chapter I’m going to write soon, when I’ll fulfil a nerd fantasy and write a critical paper on Chris Ware. The book is a catalogue for what looks to have been an incredible exhibition, and one of the curators, John Carlin, has an excellent essay tracing the evolution of American graphic narrative. A nice bonus is the series of essays by people like Francoise Mouly, Jonathan Safran Foer, and, neatly for my purposes, Dave Eggers.
Eggers writes about Chris Ware, and though I can’t find the article online, I’ve put some nice quotes after the jump.
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April 29, 2009 • 11:46 am
Read it by clicking this internet word-arrangement.
At Ryan Manning’s excellent interview-compilation blog thunk.
Some of my favourites which are also answers I would have liked to give:
adam coates
if you could be anywhere in the world doing anything you wanted right now, where would you be and what would you be doing?
i am pretty ok here and now. i just ate a baked potato for the first time in a long while.
if i had some real desire to be somewhere else doing something, i could just get up and go now.
so i think the fact i am still sitting here means that i want to be here.
brooklyn copeland
what do you aspire to?
Contentment with simplicity, and a greater understanding of history and the natural world.
ryan chang
what do you think happens to us after we die?
The body ceases function, a word or sentence may be uttered immediately before death, someone finds out, someone tells the family or it is the family that finds out first, there is a period mourning that might involve a small get together with ‘diet-neutral’ snacks, people will cry and wish good things, there might be a funeral, and the body may be buried or cremated.
socrates adams-florou
has anyone ever said something about you to you that shocked you?
lots of things. i have a very high opinion of myself which no-one else has.
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April 26, 2009 • 12:44 pm
My aim for this summer is to write as much of my thesis as possible.
Because I’ve got a bursary til September, then my life is work/teach/study probably in that order.
I finished a small draft of a chapter (think small beer) this week; aiming to do another small draft by the end of May. This one was on McSweeney’s via Vimeo/YouTube/Obama/social engagement. Next chapter is on McSweeney’s via maximalism/Chris Ware/DFW/Wes Anderson.
NEW DEADLINE: 6000 words by 30 May.
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Some links I think people might like while I’m procrastinating on finishing a chapter.
Vaguely intended to be academic-related, in that it’s about what I think about and how these ideas feed into my research, but also it’s just cool stuff.
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