/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.3727423]

let's have a comics thread.

Jimmy Corrigan is so good and it makes me angry when hipster faggots who have hipster friends pretend like they understand the depth of this masterpiece.

But the cursive font in the grandpa parts are impossible to read so I just mostly looked at the pictures during those parts. Feels bad man

[Anonymous No.3727433]

>>3727423
>But the cursive font in the grandpa parts are impossible to read

That's a relief, because I was thinking it was maybe the fucking size of the image.

[Anonymous No.3727445]

>>3727433

Can you do me a favor and look it up yourself and tell me if it is readable or not. Am I the only one having this problem

[Anonymous No.3727458]

>>3727445
Pretty sure it's just you. I don't recall having any problem with it.

[Anonymous No.3727465]

>angry at hipster faggots who pretend they don't understand the depth of this masterpiece
>they don't understand the depth of this masterpiece
>they don't understand
>they hipster faggots

Wat.

[Anonymous No.3727469]

From jimmy corrigan to From Hell is the natural progression of comics thread.


>they say this book is a masterpiece
>every character looks exactly the same
>it is impossible to tell who the fuck is who,especially the prostitutes

other than that pretty cool book, and you can distinguish characters after the 2nd reading.

[Anonymous No.3727482]

The only difference between those hipster faggots and you is that they have hipster friends while you have none.

[Anonymous No.3727487]

>>3727482

>implying someone who has friends can feel with Jimmy Corrigan

[Anonymous No.3727498]

>>3727487
Those hipsters might not actually have friends but they have someone to call a friend.

[Anonymous No.3727511]

>tfw overhear some hipster English majors
>"yeah chris ware is amazing..."
>I go into gollum mode and start stalking them

[Anonymous No.3727512]

>>>/co/

[Anonymous No.3727522]

>>3727520

Fine.

[Anonymous No.3727520]

>>3727423
"Hipster-faggots." Excellent. You've managed to simultaneously disregard Chris Ware's impact in the alternative graphic novel industry and negatively generalize his entire audience while giving no rationale. All because you can't read cursive. Fuck off.

[Anonymous No.3727524]

>>3727423
Chris Ware is a one trick pony over-hyped by hipsters, an entire generation of people incapable of having literary discourse worth any genuine merit. You should feel bad for appreciating hipster pandering crap like Jimmy Corrigan. You're no different than a hipster.

[Anonymous No.3727565]

>>3727524
>Hating Jimmy Corrigan because it is like by "hipsters"

I don't get your guys' reliance on that word. Sure, there are lots of young pseudo-intellectuals that misinterpret works of literary merit, but stereotyping an entire piece as "hipster" is fucking asinine because you don't have to give any reasoning for why it's bad. Why's Jimmy Corrigan bad? It's hipster. What's hipster? Who gives a flying fuck?

[Anonymous No.3727580]

>>3727565
It's not the young pseudo-intellectuals that bother me, it's the elitist ones.

[The Importance of Being On Time and Being !dAqyKvNZuA No.3727581]

ware is probably the most technically accomplished comics artist working today, but he tells the same needlessly unpleasant, trite, self-pitying story over and over again

[Anonymous No.3727599]

>>3727524
The joke here is that there has never been a generation capable of having literary discourse worth any genuine merit; there are exceptional people, and there are those who fail to try. Men and supermen, excusing the patriarchal term (and fuck you if you're about to cry 'feminazi' there). If you can understand and appreciate fine lit, great. Others are trying to. Help them, don't judge. Our generation is not exceptional in its mediocrity. If you want to have literary discussions, force books on your friends, never stop talking about lit. Give your collection away. Truly listen to what they have to say, and critique it fairly. You are the one keeping yourself from being part of a crowd of finely educated people. Try harder, pleb.

[Anonymous No.3727602]

I almost bought Jimmy Corrigan on free comics day, but it seemed kind of tryhard (tho I know that's part of maximalism or whatever) for being almost $40. I only skimmed though it, so I think I could get into it if I just spent more time on it.

I bought Goliath instead, which is by that guy who made the "proper literature is just jealous of mah sci-fi jetpack XD," but it's really good and really depressing, in my opinion. It's very "low-key" and other hipster buzzwords probably

[Anonymous No.3727604]

How about you try posting a few literature thread instead OP?

[Anonymous No.3727631]

>>3727565
That post didn't imply that, it basically said Chris Ware's work, including Jimmy Corrigan, is a fucking pile of shit with no literary merit whatsoever.Jimmy Corrigan doesn't have merit. Hipsters are the only ones who think it does. Ergo hipsters don't know shit about literary merit. Go back to /co/ loser

[Anonymous No.3727645]

>>3727599
>Men and supermen
Stopped reading there.
The only joke here is expecting people to fall for that stupid-fucking-retarded-bologna-excuse of a comment

[Anonymous No.3727648]

what about asterios polyp? interesting points in it plus good technical level (use of curves in opposition to angled lines, and understandable but dynamic jumps in the timeline)

[Anonymous No.3727654]

Why the fuck are you not posting full size comics

[Anonymous No.3727663]

>>3727631

>Jimmy Corrigan, is a fucking pile of shit

This part is obviously wrong

>with no literary merit whatsoever

But this is correct, the merit of Chris Ware's work is unique to comics.

[Anonymous No.3727665]

>>3727648
I liked it a lot. Has Mazzuchelli done anything else of note?

[Anonymous No.3727670]

>>3727665

His comics adaptation of City of Glass is 10/10

[Anonymous No.3727674]

>>3727665
not that I've read but he has an interesting adaptation of Auster's city of glass

[Anonymous No.3727683]

>>3727663
No the post is all correct, learn better taste or stay in retard country aka /co/

[Anonymous No.3727690]

>>3727670
>>3727674
ahhh, you beat me to it hahah. and I read "anything interesting on that note" thus my reply

Morrison's volumes on Doom patrol seemed really inteersting for me too. more on the direction of absurdism though

[Anonymous No.3727695]

That Doom comic is nice.
Rip and Tear.

[Anonymous No.3727720]

>>3727695
Morrison's role on it gave it life in my opinion, he can be too mystic at times and naive about philosophical stances but he brought something new to the medium. I don't remember the name of the author that came after him. She did some nice things too but she really pushed her feminism into it and that ruined it for me.

[Anonymous No.3727743]

What comic is this from?

[Anonymous No.3727778]

[Anonymous No.3727796]

I think charles burns and jim woodring are the only fantagraphics published artists, besides their archival collections (ie krazy kat, peanuts) I've found worthwhile. I downloaded a couple chapters of Corrigan but I found the sincerity boring, the humor indulgent and most probably importantly, the length daunting. it failed to catch my interest. And when I saw he did that absolutely tasteless cover for some edition of Candide, along the lines of Jason's Dharma bums, I lost whatever respect I had for him. I think his work fits along the taste of someone reading Asterios Polyp and that one with the birds and astronauts and Daniel Clowes. I'm not interested, D+Q disgusts me, that standard spectrum of "taste" produces a strong feeling of psuedo-intellectuals/hipster-not-hipsters/ya college liberals trying to posture the comic medium to where they think (because they obviously have no idea) constitutes high art. I don't know if you fall in line with that but those are my thoughts. I don't follow comics that closely and haven't kept up with any recent releases, but I like CF, Chippendale and Negron.

[Anonymous No.3727816]

>>3727796
read both corrigan and polyp. hated the first. the second is not perfect but it's not bad either. it uses good technical tools to express, the message is sincere and the only pretentious jokes are made by the character that is pretentious. point of the comic being that his pretension and his lack of understanding of other points of view is preventing him from living his life. The other comic is self-pitying and self-indulgent.

[Anonymous No.3727847]

>>3727816
I've flipped through it to look at the art but never read it. I doubt I'd like it, stinks of stale modernism.

[Anonymous No.3727853]

comics are not /lit/

comics belong on >>>/co/

saged and reported

[Anonymous No.3727865]

>>3727847
Well taste is taste, I'm just telling you my judgement after actually reading what I'm talking about. Not just flipping through it and making a quick judgement

[Anonymous No.3727868]

>>3727853
isn't stating that you reported a bannable offense?

[Anonymous No.3727875]

This thread is /co/ related and therefore shit.
Take it to /co/ please

[Anonymous No.3727883]

>>3727423

>Jimmy Corrigan is so good and it makes me angry when hipster faggots who have hipster friends pretend like they understand the depth of this masterpiece.

You sound like you are in some serious hipster denial there, man. Cope with your situation.

[Anonymous No.3727886]

>>3727868
come at me faggot

>>>/co/

[Anonymous No.3727906]

>>3727865
you're right, that comment was unfair and hostile. sorry.