From Great to This...
The other day I posted a pretty hefty deconstruction of my favorite Graphic and Illustrated novels. I’ve got one here that I advise you steer clear of.
Tupelo: The World’s Forgotten Boy
I read the back cover and decided to take a chance. An indi comic about a super power endowed simpleton of the punk rock era. BIG MISTAKE. The book is really hard to follow. It also glorifies killing wealthy people since they are the cause of the problems of a degenerate society. Punk rock might have hated the yuppies but look where all the genre’s legends ended up; dead or rich.
Being an artist I meet all sorts of people, but the ones I hate are the mindless “destroy the establishment” types. If you want to rail on someone, be sure its more than your hatred of their cloths and money clip.
This graphic reads like the poetry I’ve heard read downtown in performance spaces. Its self important, childish, and hardly motivated.
Tupelo does come with a cd of music to go along with the scene in which the story unfolds, but its about as good as the book.
Grade: D
posted by C. S. Schneider @ 5:28 PM
3 comments
3 Comments:
Schnitz.... You've got to check out 'Freshmen' a comic created by Hugh Sterbakov and Seth Green. Very nice stuff... Yes it's on the campy side, but I think you'll love it.
Hurm. Heard nothing but good things about it.
http://www.brokenfrontier.com/columns/details.php?id=103
http://www.readaboutcomics.com/2004/08/02/tupelo-1/
http://www.comicworldnews.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?column=reviews&page=31
I remember CBG dug it too.
That's cool, I like how you backed your play with references, bt I still think its a waste of time, money and artistic expression. Feel free to buy mine if you're interested in reading it.
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