Day 31: On Books and the Writing of Books

[itasianinvasion]

While bumming around Barnes and Noble, I stumbled upon a book called Eisner/Miller and the entire book is series of chats with Will Eisner and Frank Miller, two of comics’ most important creators.

I’m maybe a quarter into the book, but listening to two guys who helped change not only the way comics were drawn, but how they were told really drives

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[spanishbullshit]

i had a similar experience watching "Stop Making Sense" - concert film of the Talking Heads directed by John Demme. I know we're talking different genres here, but it's the same idea. In an age where everybody's potentially an American Idol or You Tube celebrity, there's a palpable fog of delusion in the air that anyone can consider themselves an artist. Contrast that with those few influential blokes who actually contribute to culture in a lasting way, and it is truly "terrifying" to realize that having control of the means of production does not an artist make