{"id":12349,"date":"2012-12-28T10:38:53","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T16:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=12349"},"modified":"2012-12-28T11:28:18","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T17:28:18","slug":"book-report-comic-art-now-by-dez-skinn-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/28\/book-report-comic-art-now-by-dez-skinn-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Comic Art Now<\/i> by Dez Skinn (2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Book<\/a>I bought this book<\/a> in the discount bin at the grocery store a couple years back. It’s an art gallery style book sampling modern comics, particularly focusing on independent artists who are doing creative work with the new technologies.<\/p>\n

I mean, there are some smaller books in the Marvel line mentioned, but most of it is smaller artists publishing their own work. The focus is not American comic art, either; the book features a lot of British, Brazilian, Japanese, and European artists. The author is himself a British comic book editor, so there you go.<\/p>\n

The biggest insight I got out of it really has more to do with my own relationship to the comics, such as it is these days. As I was going along, I read the captions for the art first and only then, sometimes, looked at the images briefly.<\/p>\n

So that might explain why I take a little less out of books like Frik’in Hell<\/em><\/a> and why I don’t do comic books as much as I did when I was younger; I’m more into the prose than into the art, and when that art takes precedence over the story, I’m not sold on it. I’m that way with films, too, I guess. Come to think of it, I’m that way with prose books, too.<\/p>\n

So it’s an interesting book to page through, and I liked it. But not enough to go buy a stack of comic books.<\/p>\n

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