The flattened American landscape of minor writers
Robin Landseadel
robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Thu Feb 26 08:11:50 CST 2009
On Feb 26, 2009, at 5:56 AM, Carvill John wrote:
> Yes, there are some great comics, yes Watchmen is intelligent and
> multilayered etc., but can it really stand comparison with the best
> actual novels of the post-war period, with Roth or Bellow or
> Pynchon, with 'Herzog' or 'Humboldt's Gift', 'Gravity's Rainbow' or
> 'Mason & Dixon', 'The Counterlife' or 'My Life as a Man', the Rabbit
> Books, etc.? Surely the answer has to be, however regretfully, 'no'?
True. However Alison Bechdel's "Fun Home" is some seriously fine work:
http://sexualityinart.wordpress.com/2007/10/01/an-epic-journey-toward-honesty/
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