Jeet Heer
Auteur de Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium
Œuvres de Jeet Heer
Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium (1656) — Directeur de publication — 71 exemplaires
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Little Orphan Annie Vol. 01: 1924-1927 — Will Tomorrow Ever Come? (1924) — Introduction — 59 exemplaires
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- 6
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- 3
- Membres
- 212
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- #104,834
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- 15
Unfortunately, I don't feel that Heer got to grips with the art of editing. Mouly's input to RAW is described in pretty nebulous terms. I realise that memories may be hazy now, and documentation scant, but a bit more detail would have been really helpful. As it was, we only really got that she worried about the order of the stories. In contrast, there was much more detail about Spiegelman's early career, which could have been skated over. (Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge Spiegelman fan, it's just not what I was reading the book for).
It's a little scattershot too - some things are peculiarly detailed, others mentioned in passing. Someone says they don't know how they got a printing press in the loft - that would have been interesting to know. similarly, Heer asserts that Clowes changed his mind about RAW, but doesn't say when the second quote was from. Compounding this, some material just seemed a bit weak. The description of editors as spies; pointing out that "Ware" contains the letters of RAW... And while I'm grouching - the tension between Weirdo and RAW seemed poorly motivated. These are all pretty minor faults, but I just had a sense of the whole being somewhat insubstantial.
In his summing up, Heer asserts that it was through Spiegleman that Mouly found her love for art. I suspect he forces this point a bit because of the assonance of the sentence, but the the result almost reads as if any smart woman chosen by Spiegelman would have achieved what Mouly has. I know that wasn't Heer's intention, but it is, I think, a problem with this book - Heer cannot or will not put Spiegelman to one side. Maybe he's just too in love with Art. Sorry.
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