This great piece of comics criticism was lifted from The Spirit #19, written by Mark Evanier and Sergio Aragonés with art by Paul Rivoche (DC Comics, september 2008). I don’t think Scott McCloud could have put it better. And it doesn’t end there…
Listen to the man !
(The Spirit © Will Eisner Studios. Quoted for review and comment purposes)
Jeff Smith created this beautiful cartoon to promote the Making Waves Cruise, which was organised around 2000 to support the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. It features all the major “alternative” comic heroes at that time : Marv (from Frank Miller’s Sin City), Neil Gaiman’s Sandman, The Spirit, Evan Dorkin’s Milk And Cheese (”dairy products gone bad”, indeed) and, of course, Smith’s own Bone.
The CBLDF was founded in 1986 as a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of First Amendment rights for members of the comics community. It deserves your support…
This has been around for a couple of months, it seems, but I only saw it today. It’s just sad, really…
What I do like, however, is Chris Peyer’s take on what a Frank Miller Dan Dare movie would look like, over at Beer & Meat.
