I stopped listening to the Penzler interview when he said
flatly and without explanation that he didn't read comics or
graphic novels. Some of the best, most innovative crime
fiction of the past quarter century has been in comics. Moore
and Gibbons' Watchmen, most of Frank Miller's work, David
Lapham's extraordinary Stray Bullets, etc. And, I mean,
Spillane got his start writing for comics, didn't he? Why
would someone who is undeniably an expert on crime fiction
ignore a massive and undeniably important crime fiction
medium? It would be like saying "Oh, I don't watch movies."
???
MDS
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