I
UP TO THAT POINT, Eu/<,opeAN
~oR.o.
~q NOWHERE IS THIS COLLISION
NaT A RECENT OSSESSION.
=:;J MORE THOl<:OU6HLY EXPLORED THAN
THE MODERN COMIC. AND IT'S
APPL'-f
.:::TO'a.
RJ!C': HOME,
... AN INSTINCT
WHICH SAla THAT
WE HAD REACHED
THE END OF A LONG
JOURNEY AND
THAT IT WAS llME
AT LAST TO REAP
~()R... ~E.
BVJ AGAIN IT WAS ~OOOL?HE
7OPFFC~ WHO FORESAW THE:/R
INT&lJE?ENIJE!'ICY AND BROUGHT
THE FAMilY &'ICK TOGCTHE~ AT LAST.
"''''''''4
DID GROW OUT OF
A SHA1(ElJ INmNCT
OF THE DAY...
UN/f=lCAT/ON
fIND PERHAPS THIS
COMMON THREAD OF
""l-<.1TOR..., AtJD
INTKIGlIING.
PREPARING TO
CHANGE DIRECTION
IS AT LEAST
WRITING WERE
--BUT, THE FACT
WAT THE MODERN
COMIC WAS 80RN
JUST N>. ART AND
AD"6.R,..,... e. ...
SURE THAT
WERE
ID~flS
c..~~PIU
DROIIOSHFETS HAD OFFERED KEMmlJEI?S
OF WHAT WOJ<DS AND PICTURES COUJ.D
DO WHEN COMBINED.
M·
I'M
THESE
MIND WHEN HE
THEFUn-HEST THIIVG
FROM TbpFFER'S
PUT PENro
1"A?8?-­
149
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UNFORTUNATELY FOR
COMICS, NO SOONER HAD
THE FINE ARTS /<,EOISCOVEl?fP
THE LINK BETWEEN WORDS
AND PICTURES-­
IT'S A HOAX, I TELL
YA! MY "TWQ-YfAR-OLD
r
lJAU6HTEK CAN PAI~
BETTER THAN 7lIAT/'./.
:~
ThOll still lIuravis},'d brid
ThOll foster-child of sile
Sylvan historian, W}IO can
A flowery tale more sweetl
What leaf fring'd legend h
Of deities or mortals, or
1n Tempe or the dales
What men or gods are thl
What mad pllrsuit? What
IN FACT, ,HE GENERAL PU8l1c'S PERCEPTIONS OF
"GREAT" ART AND "GREAT" WRITING HASN'T CHANGfD
MUCH IN 150 YEARS." ANY ARTIST WISHING TO DO
GREAT WORK IN A MEDIUM 1IJ'/~ WORDS AND
PICTURE'S WILL HAVE TO CONTeND WITH THIS
ATTITUDE'.
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150
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ONEIiOllnt
fYrV~.
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...8fCAUSE, DEEP DOWN INSIDE, MANY COMICS CREATORS STILL MEASURE ART AND
WRITING BY DIFFERENT STANDARDS AND ACT ON THE FAITH THAT
"GKEAT" ART AND -GREAT" WRITING WILL COM~INE HI\RMONIOUSLY
BY VIRTUE OF QUALITY ALONE.
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• NOT AS MUCH ,\S WE' LIKE 'to
~//Vx 10 H"S. ANYWAY.