Another view of my comics via different apps: GILDA #10 english version, double splash, in apple´s preview.
More views of the comics in different apps: this time GILDA #2 on the iPhone.
Advisory: on iPhones and iPads save the file as a bookmark to access it over and over again.
Felix is still doing the translations for his old comic-books - he´ll be ready this week!
This double-page spread is from Gilda #5.
Musings on COMICS
I never did like the term “grafic literature” and its variations, I READ the things, thats true, but what I get from those comics, that I deem good, is not the same I get from reading literature, and I don’t think that the picture part of comics should be called grafic. Those are WORDS and PICTURES, sure, and in supreme combination the result strikes me with power and truth like no other medium, I’d like to think music comes closest, its trite, but KIRBY, without a doubt the greatest comics artist ever, did cite opera as a prime influence. With opera being the jazz or rock or rap music of the 19th century, its pretty clear what kinda double comics got today. That brings me to the center of this piece: whenever I read a comic by the likes of WARE ( to be honest: I often tried to read Chris Wares work, but simply can’t get through an issue, I feel like being written down to and being told what to think ) or CLOWES or whatever postmodern deconstructist out there, I am not left with AWE and OPTIMISM, like I get from Kirby, Marsh, Barks or Canniff, hell, even Miller or Panter, when theyre good, I am left with a shallow taste of nothingness, like elevator muzak. So I simply never got the stature they achieved in the field, its like they are important artists, while those Kirbys and Marshs were slave laborers getting lucky shots. I must honestly disagree, the Spiegleman, Ware, Clowes school of comics aint shit to me, they might be getting their arse licked by the dumbfucked Journalists with whom they like to mingle, but in respect to good COMICS they got nothing and will soon be forgotten.
