The flattened American landscape of minor writers

[Henry Musikar]

Is "Fun Home," or for that matter "Watchmen," literature, great or not...
no.
Is "Fun Home "seriously fine work?" Yes.  You can buy it here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0618477942?tag=tdcoccamsaxe-20&camp=0&creative=0&l
inkCode=as4&creativeASIN=0618477942&adid=08TRTTQBD6XW9YBXJKMF& 

Henry Mu

-----Original Message-----
From: 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-honest
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