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August 02, 2004
There's just no Pleasing Some People
Andrew Arnold over at Time.com just posted his review of the San Diego Comic Con. He comes from an indie point of view, which is fine. However, when he wrote about the Eisner Awards, he said, "The jaw-dropping lowlight had to have been the award for Best Graphic Album — Reprint, which industry voters passed over Jim Woodring, Chester Brown, Chris Ware and Gilbert Hernandez to give to an utterly outclassed collection of Batman Adventures stories."
OK, Woodring, Brown, Ware and Hernandez are all terrific talents. No doubt their works were pretty good, otherwise they wouldn't have been nominated. But as a reprint nominee, it means the work has been seen elsewhere. So, why did my collection win? Possibly because it was a better looking, more cost-effective package, or maybe it had extras to enhance the stories collected unlike the others. I dunno.
But just as mainstream readers sometimes look down their noses at anything beyond super-hero comics, Arnold's approach that only indie material is worth consideration is equally frustrating.
Posted by Bob Greenberger at August 2, 2004 02:57 PM
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