Making comics fit into the world of fine arts van be a blessing in disguice. There are many pitfalls lurking when heading that way, not the least the risk of diminishing the very core of comics, which to my mind is the storytelling. Still, I can't help being happy when a respectable newspaper like The New York Times, devotes the front page of their cultural section to the story of an autction with original art by Joe Kubert.
Now, I've never been a big fan of Kubert but I do have a deep respect for his contrubution to the art of comics, not the least in starting and running The Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art since 1976.
Yossel and Jew Gangster are small masterpieces.
ReplyDeleteCheck out the artwork being auctioned at Heritage Auctions. Kubert was always better than the scripts he got and his original artwork rocks. :)
I agree about both the above mentioned tomes, which I have read with great appreciation. His book on Sarajevo, though, I thought was too much in the vein of the action genre to take seriously, despite the story behind the making of that book. And his art is professionally done, just not to my taste.
ReplyDeleteI agree about both the above mentioned tomes, which I have read with great appreciation. His book on Sarajevo, though, I thought was too much in the vein of the action genre to take seriously, despite the story behind the making of that book. And his art is professionally done, just not to my taste.
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