He's got to have someone to look down on, the way "literary"
writers look down on crime fiction and the pulps that spawned
it. In all seriousness, though, Penzler's old enough that
he's of a generation that sees comics as exclusively for
kids, though that's obviously not the case any more, if it
ever was.
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Michael Sharp <
msharp@binghamton.edu> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> 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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