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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, March 10, 2012

TOP 10 - COMICS FROM IMAGE

IMAGE COMICS celebrates it's 20th anniversary this year (founded in '92), which in the cut throat world of comics dominated by the BIG 2, this is quite the feat. What I have always loved about this publisher is their ability to support the creators involved, by those creators having full publishing rights to their own work. Image doesn't own the comics, the creators do. HAPPY BIRTHDAY IMAGE! Here are the TOP 10 titles currently published @ IMAGE.

01. INVINCIBLE by Robert Kirkman, Ryan Ottley and Cory Walker.