Well! Who’s sounding like a “pedantic schoolmarm from a bitter hollow” today? I’m sure all you “hidebound literalists” in the audience, as well as all you beady-eyed nitpickers, feel duly chastised for dismissing Serious Storytelling Art as mere “comic strips”!
Epicus Doomus
November 8, 2012 at 11:03 am
…Is all of this some sort of attempt to justify the continued existence of comic strips or something?
Nope, just more of Tom Batiuk railing against us Philistines…
Again with the “lumping”. Yesterday, Skunkhead was proclaiming that the public “lumped” the “comic weeklies” in with Pulitzer’s “Sunday supplements”; today the crude, clueless, uncultured masses have “lumped” together those supplements with the nascent art form of “comic strips”. Because back in the 1880’s, and in fact right up until this day, the great unwashed craved mere amusement, and could never be expected to appreciate the difference between mere “comic strips” and art. Are you with me so far? Cody’s not. So desperate is he to get away from John’s blather that he’s using homework as an excuse.
Leave it to a Tom Batiuk character to take a topic like “comics” and present it as a history lesson, complete with arched eyebrows and finger-pointing pontification. Way to connect with a teenager who despises school. The part of John in panel 2 is being played by Marvin Kaplan.
Professor John Howard of the Kollege of Komix Book Knowledge goes back, back into komix history, even beyond Action Detective Comics #1, across the pond and all the way to the late 19th century. Cody brightens at the mention of a name he vaguely recognizes. TB’s heard of Joseph Pulitzer and his prizes too, having come thisclose to claiming one for himself.
Look on the bright side, kids: Batiuk spared us most of the Battle of the Bands, and Les is still off the radar. Kut to the Komix Korner, where the chullo’d one and John, lover o’ boys, are discussing the things that really matter, and by that I mean comic books! Owen earnestly raises a question about “comic” books that readers of this blog regularly ask about a certain “comic” strip. Reckon the komix geek community (and I say that with affection) will be all abuzz that Owen is prominently proffering a copy of DMZ, a “Comic” Book That Exists.
Son of Stuck Funky 