Comics: The Meaning

com-ics (kom'iks)n. plural in form, used with a singular verb. 1. Juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence, intended to convey information and/or to produce an aesthetic response in the viewer.

"If Comics' spectacularly varied past is any indication, comics' future will be virtually impossible to predict using the standards of the present.... Those of you who make comics for a living - or would like to someday, probably know that keeping up with all the advances in today's comics is a full-time job. However much we may try to understand the world of comics around us, a part of that world will always lie in shadow - a mystery.... As it is, it should be kept in mind at all times that this world is only one of many possible worlds!
Our attempts to define comics are an on-going process which won't end anytime soon. A new generation will no doubt reject whatever this one finally decides to accept and try once more to reinvent comics. And so they should. Here's to the great debate."

Excerpts and paraphrased from the amazing Scott McCloud's "Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art."

Saturday, January 7, 2012

TOP 10 - COMICS THAT SHOULD BE ADDED TO YOUR PULL LIST FOR 2012

Based on industry comic sales for the end of 2011.  This is the excellent stuff comic readers are really missing out on.  I always find that the best selling is never the best written or drawn. 

01.  SPACEMAN - Azzarello & Risso.  Vertigo/DC

02.  SWAMP THING - Snyder & Paquette.  DC

03.  ANIMAL MAN - Lemire & Foreman.  DC

04.  ULTIMATES - Hickman & Ribic.  Marvel

05.  BATWOMAN - J.H. Williams III.  DC

06.  DAREDEVIL - Waid & Rivera.  Marvel

07.  PUNISHER - Rucka & Cheecheto.  Marvel

08.  FANTASTIC FOUR - Hickman & Epting/Guice.  Marvel

09.  UNCANNY X-FORCE - Remender & Opena.  Marvel

10.  STORMWATCH - Cornell & Sepulveda.  Marvel

Honourable mention:  Batwing, Captain America, Casanova, Green Lantern Corps, Journey Into Mystery, Ultimate Spider-man and Winter Solider (hits the stands in Feb. by Brubaker and Guice).
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