cartooning musings

[johncomic]

I just finished reading Meanwhile, a thick biography of comics legend Milton Caniff. (Well, finished but for the appendices, but I quibble.) In several places, Caniff was asked how he evaluated himself and his work in the Grander Scheme of Comics -- he has almost unfailingly been proclaimed one of The All-Time Greats by his audience, critics, and

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[johncomic]

Since I posted this, I remembered one time when I was held up as an example of How Comics Are Done: a few years back, a teacher chose to show some of my pages to a cluster of raw newbies during a class on comics storytelling. [Apparently she told them, "This guy gets it."] So there is that.

But I think that, in the larger sense, my evaluation still holds.