I sitll need to respond to Andrew and Anna's latest thoughtful posts, but I couldn't resist sharing this description of a recent graphic novel that seems an ideal evocation of what we're talking about -- Nick Bertozzi's "The Salon" about which I know nothing except the description of its plot (courtesy Amazon.com):
Could a single book more neatly address the aspects of interstitiality we're discussing? Has anyone here read it? I also know that the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is fighting an unfair prosecution of a comics dealer in Georgia (Pablo Picasso is depicted nude in the boook, although non-sexually, and the dealer was charged with selling adult material to a minor), so this work is also a good example of how the various comics genre(s) are often misread or misunderstood by the general public.
I read about "The Salon" in (where else?) Salon.com, which today featured a roundup of the best comics/graphic novels of 2007.
Quote:
In the Paris of 1907, a salon of later famous Modernistsincluding Gertrude Stein, Georges Braque, Erik Satie and their sawed-off, potty-mouthed, frequently naked, hilariously arrogant acquaintance Pablo Picassodiscover a stash of secret blue absinthe that allows its drinkers to travel inside paintings, which may hold the key to the demonic creature who's been dismembering avant-gardists.
Could a single book more neatly address the aspects of interstitiality we're discussing? Has anyone here read it? I also know that the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is fighting an unfair prosecution of a comics dealer in Georgia (Pablo Picasso is depicted nude in the boook, although non-sexually, and the dealer was charged with selling adult material to a minor), so this work is also a good example of how the various comics genre(s) are often misread or misunderstood by the general public.
I read about "The Salon" in (where else?) Salon.com, which today featured a roundup of the best comics/graphic novels of 2007.
