Comics Week continued
Browsing the web, I found a great list of Eight Comic Books to Read before You Die. I admit that I didn't grow up reading comic books, though I did spend some quality time with them as a teenager when I was visiting a friend and, being a morning person, was up waaay earlier than anyone else in the house. Luckily, there was a pile of comics at hand to keep me company. Mostly, as I remember it, the Fantastic Four. I've since been touch and go with comics. A friend introduced me to Neil Gaiman's Sandman in college, and it freaked me out entirely. Yes, comics can blow your mind. Neil Gaiman's take on A Midsummer Night's Dream did just that. Read it. It's eerie, especially with how well it fits.
After college it wasn't until my son was born and became a comic book fanatic (almost with his first breath) that I got involved again. What impressed me was the ability of the genre to entertain while make political and moral statements that will, hopefully, resonate with their readers. We all know the famous Spiderman line of how "With great power comes great responsibility." But comic book characters have commented on and fought everything from wars to discrimination to disease. And my son has been so influenced that he's started writing comic books of his own and selling them at a dollar a piece to raise money for cancer research.
So, my son, the writer. I just hope that if his ideas ever get inked, the women's heads are larger than their breasts. I'm just saying....
After college it wasn't until my son was born and became a comic book fanatic (almost with his first breath) that I got involved again. What impressed me was the ability of the genre to entertain while make political and moral statements that will, hopefully, resonate with their readers. We all know the famous Spiderman line of how "With great power comes great responsibility." But comic book characters have commented on and fought everything from wars to discrimination to disease. And my son has been so influenced that he's started writing comic books of his own and selling them at a dollar a piece to raise money for cancer research.
So, my son, the writer. I just hope that if his ideas ever get inked, the women's heads are larger than their breasts. I'm just saying....