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[maria_sputnik]

JIM WOODRING IS THE GREATEST LIVING CARTOONIST
come argue with me, you still get your mind blown

Comments

[maria_sputnik]

good call, a! can you imagine a 100-page story set in the frank landscape? it is worth reading as soon as possible.

throwdown

[piedpiper]

lynda barry is funk queen of U.S.A.

good comeback

[maria_sputnik]

yes, i think she IS funk queen of the USA, and i also think that "what it is" describes some of the same phenomena jim woodring tends to discuss in "frank," AND i was lying on the ground giggling at a marlys strip just last week.

fr' me, though, jim woodring discusses and describes SO COMPLETELY certain phenomena which are adequately described JUST ABOUT NOWHERE ELSE that it makes the hair on the end of my neck stand on end

damn, i am bad at making "best of" lists.

p.s. i went to a simulated amish village this weekend and there was a bunny there looking crazed in the heat. does heat make bunnies crazy?

[rae_beta]

I'll concede "one of," but not "the."

[maria_sputnik]

OK! Here are my arguments though:

1) in 400 years, jim woodring comics will still be as mind-blowing, comprehensible, and incomprehensible as they are today
2) i have never read a book or a comic book which told me the same information and gave me the same feelings and
3) OMG!

...seriously, though, I was in a car with lj lostcosmonaut a couple of months ago and he referred to Kevin Huizenga as the Greatest Living Cartoonist, and I was shocked, not because I don't love KH but because I couldn't math out how any one of the super-greats could stand out above the others.

Do you have a personal Greatest Living Cartoonist or do you think it's a bogus category?

[rae_beta]

Bogus category. All of the best cartoonists I can think of have specific strengths to which their work plays--which, in turn, makes their work so radically different from anyone else's to an extent that precludes most direct comparisons.

Specifically in terms of cartooning skill--deliberately working the medium for all its worth--I'll be amazed if I ever see anyone top Alison Bechdel.

[maria_sputnik]

Alison Bechdel? Fun Home era or Dykes to Watch Out For era? More so than Chris Ware? More than Jaime Hernandez?

[asphalteden]

I can't disagree

CONCORDANCE

[maria_sputnik]

I've been thinking lately of drawing a comic with you in it, adapted from an lj entry that mza wrote where you, as his dog, say that you are disturbed by giant public displays of so-called emotion.

Re: CONCORDANCE

[asphalteden]

I can't disagree with that either, even if I may not resemble that dog as much anymore.

komment thirty three

[lostcosmonaut]

no arguments here

--mza.