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Will Eisner and Captain America

Jun 28, 2012 23:01

Anyone interested in writing Captain America aka Steve Rogers might want to take a look at the graphic novel To the Heart of the Storm by Will Eisner. Or, hey, even if you're not... it's a good book and a quick read!

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jazzypom June 29 2012, 09:10:57 UTC

Will Eisner! I loved his Spirit comics, even when I winced at the obvious racist renderings of his young, negro sidekick (comics, man, it's a matter of loving the medium, and hating the sins).

This book is where I leaned it was a thing when boys wore their 1st long parts

That's pretty traditional, yeah. In the West Indies even up to the early naughties, if you were a boy you pretty much wore shorts until grade four (around the age of nine, ten years old) when you got your first long trousers, which were a sign of maturity. There's a saying that goes, "From the devil was in short pants" (or 'from when the devil was a boy') as an idiom to mean, from before recorded time.

Nostalgia for a past that never was is a pet peeve of mine

Same. Which is why I tend to side eye comments like show runners from Mad Men and The Newsroom when they talk about, "The good old days, around the 1940s." Stweth.

cellia June 30 2012, 09:28:44 UTC

Oh man, yeah. I think Eisner did some brilliant, funny, lovely things in The Spirit, but I really have trouble enjoying it full heartedly because of how Ebony is drawn/written (...even his name). (Hm, now I wonder if I should have looked at this book again more carefully before reccing it, my memory of it is from years ago.)

"The good old days, around the 1940s." Side-eying like hell. *refrains from huge tangent here about Captain America as meta, as symbol, and as character, plus my personal issues with these things.*

Totally agree about loving the media and hating the sins. I wonder if comics' sins seem so egregious because the writing/drawing combo exposes an unusual amount of creator-id... or if I just know more about it and love it more.

Now that I think of it, I think my father mentioned wearing something called knickerbockers. He grew up in the 40s-50s. I didn't know it was still common in some places still up to so recently though!

Yeah! Knickerbockers! jazzypom June 30 2012, 09:37:59 UTC

In Britain they call underwear 'knickers' because it's a diminutive word for 'knickerbockers' and they are just short trousers (we use the word 'pants' for underwear as well as something being not so good. As in, "That's just pants.")

*refrains from huge tangent here about Captain America as meta, as symbol, and as character, plus my personal issues with these things.*

You should do! Once of my surprises with Captain America is that not a lot of people had comment on what he represented/represents. On one hand, Captain America is pretty much the American ideal of identity - blonde haired, blue eyed, Aryan 'superman'. On the other hand, Captain America is supposedly on the side of 'right' in terms of being a patriot who isn't a scoundrel.

Totally agree about loving the media and hating the sins. I wonder if comics' sins seem so egregious because the writing/drawing combo exposes an unusual amount of creator-id... or if I just know more about it and love it more.Or the fact that comics are very much of their time. In that if you ( ... )