The flattened American landscape of minor writers

[Robin Landseadel]

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/