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Gabriel Winslow-Yost, NYRB, December 2012:
“In 1988, Gore Vidal predicted that by 2015 “The New York
Review of Comic Books will doubtless replace the old NYR.” It was a joke, of
course, and a warning (Vidal preferred “book books,” as he called them), but
we’re just a couple of years short now, and he wasn’t all wrong. The past
decades have seen an unprecedented amount of serious attention paid to comics,
and for good reason: they’re better—stranger, subtler, more ambitious—than ever
before.
A medium that had spent most of its existence being mocked, ignored,
and denounced, its books shoddily printed and sold only in specialty shops
that, as one artist recalled, were “really just one step away from a
pornographic bookstore to a lot of people,” began winning the awards meant for
“book books,” and showing up on the walls at MoMA and the Whitney Biennial (The
New Yorker called this “pant[ing] after the youth market”). Art Spiegelman’s
Pulitzer-winning Holocaust comic Maus was nearing completion even as Vidal
wrote, and there has been no shortage of successors, from the politically
minded reportage and memoirs of Joe Sacco and Marjane Satrapi to the acid,
unnerving fictions of Daniel Clowes and Charles Burns—to, above all, the
intricately bleak work of Chris Ware…”
टीव्ही वरच्या आतापर्यंत ऐकलेल्या थीम/ शीर्षक संगीतातले सर्वात आवडते संगीत दूरदर्शनने १९८०-९० च्या दशकात दाखवलेल्या स्पायडरमॅन, १९६७ ह्या ऍनिमेटेड सिरीजचे. सिरीज सुद्धा प्रचंड आवडायची.
मागे लिहल्याप्रमाणे इंद्रजाल कॉमिक्स सोडले तर दुसरे कोणतेही सुपरहिरो कॉमिक्स माझ्या सारख्या कॉमिक्स भुकेल्या मुलाला पुस्तकरूपात, १९६०-१९९९० दशकात, वाचायला मिळाले नाहीत.
त्यामुळे स्टॅन ली ह्या शतकात, वयाच्या चाळीशीत, माहितीचे झाले.....
स्पायडरमॅन वरची आधीची एक पोस्ट इथे पहा : "ऑर्फियस आणि स्पायडरमॅनयांची दिङगमूढता.... Deaths of Eurydice and Gwen Stacy"
Artist: James Stevenson, The New Yorker, July 16 1990