i would love to have a history of graphic art with a comics sensibility from the 50s and 60s, there's so much to discover especially in british pop. Oh and here's a quick detour that could be apropos of the vaughn james discussion above. There's this tension throughout it between the distancing tone and the emotional fervor of some of the ideas and events depicted, particularly regarding religious ecstasy and mental instability, that makes it seem like a chillier distant ancestor to Boston Corbett. It's not a very friendly book, and it's so idiosyncratic that it kinda baffles me that it's been so widely acclaimed at times, but that only makes me love it more. Coupling that chilly tone with the very precise Harold Gray-esque cartooning in Riel is so bracing and formally compelling. This stuff has an air of "objectivity" about it, like he's trying to get to a very flat recitation of facts and source texts, but it's done in a way that feels very cold and harsh, it has this really unique texture to it as a result. It's great! Louis Riel and the never-completed Gospel adaptations are my favorite Chester Brown shit, for similar reasons. I only tried it once years ago but found it totally impenetrable HotFingersClub wrote:Sevenarts I did not know you were a Louis Riel fan.
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