about comics

I love comics. I've been reading them all my life. The favorite part of the Sunday paper for me as a child was the comics section. I loved the art, the stories and the liberty to which the medium lends itself. From Mandrake the magician to Allison Clay, from the uncanny X-men to the Justice League, throughout my life, I have often looked to comics to escape from the real world to a fantasy land of sorts. One of the best thing about comics is its immediacy as an escapist platform. With books, you must know the language of the book you are reading, with video games and visual media, you need a monitor to view the video on and a machine to broadcast or host the entertainment. Comics requires no such ammenities, it is immediate. Just open the page and start reading. The critical difference between comics and books however is the pictures, the drawings, and some would use that difference to dismiss comics as a credible art form. For those of us who appreciate the format however, we kn0w the pictures are not just for illustrative purposes, for in the hands of a master artist, emotion and subtleties that can scarcely be addressed by words, are discretely and profoundly expressed in one comic book frame and or panel. It is my hope to point out these idiosyncrasies of the marriage of artists snd writer in the medium of comics with this blog. In the posts to come, I will attempt to analyze and criticize my favorite comic book stories and how they relate to their creators and authors.

For now, Here is a brief slideshow of comics in my collection that I have photographed with a Samsung Blackjack II P.D.A. with a 2 megapixel camera and a Samsung Duo Cam SC-D6550 NTSC