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Read my thoughts, mostly notes on comic strip research
author: @arkholt@gemini.arkholt.com
Through reading The Comics Journal I discovered another Fantagraphics publication, "NEMO", a classic comic strip reprint magazine. I was able to find and download all the issues. In addition to the reprints it also has articles and interviews and such. Lots of good research material there.
"At the beginning of the [20th] century, comics were the poor man's literature. Immigrants learned English from the comic strips. One can see the social history of the United States in the first part of this century by following the comic strips between 1900 and 1930."
Will Eisner, from The Comics Journal #89, pg 99.
Found a script on Github that allows downloading of borrowed books from archive.org. Used it to download all the issues of Cartoonist PROfiles for reading later. For now, still working on going through all of The Comics Journal issues.
"Modern art is the revelation of disordered minds. It is created by the untalented, sold by the unscrupulous, and bought by the uninformed. Genuine art today is found only in auto ads, fashion drawings, and comic strips. And comic strips are the best art being produced in America today."
Al Capp, from an interview in The Comics Journal #54.
I don't agree with the first part, but I find it hard to argue with the last part.
Finished a new esssay on Steve Gerber that I added to my blog as well as my Gemini capsule and gopherhole. I wasn't really a fan of Howard the Duck before, and didn't know much about Gerber, but after doing all the research for this essay I'm even less of a fan. I find the story to be fascinating, though.
Bought the archive subscription to The Comics Journal and am currently going through all the old issues looking for newspaper comic tidbits. There's not only more than I expected, but there's way more about Steve Gerber and the Howard the Duck comic strip than I expected.
Slowly going through the E&P issues, but have already found some interesting stuff. Also discovered that the full archive of Cartoonist PROfiles is on archive.org as well. It's only available to "borrow," which is frustrating, but at least it's available. A lot of info there you can't find elsewhere.
Now that there's all the hubbub over on the bird site, I've been rediscovering RSS. I used to check out RSS feeds a lot before I started using Twitter regularly. Now it seems like a good time to revisit them.
So uh... I discovered that every issue of Editor & Publisher from 1901-2015 is on archive.org by kind donation of E&P's current owner. I also discovered the official archive.org CLI tool that lets you do bulk downloads.
For the record, it took 10 hours.
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