Return of The Flash
No doubt by now any number of comics aficionados have noted the John Hodgman comics-and-Kirby essay in the New York Times Book Review. It's a great read, particularly for the way it highlights how in Kirby's work, ideas and art explode from the page.
But this is not the only comics-related material in today's Times. In a tragic counterpoint to Hodgman's exploration of comics as transcendence, a story on early onset Alzheimer's disease in people with Down Syndrome uses a comic icon to highlight the limits of our all-too-mortal life:
His Superman T-shirt was bold and bright, but his face was creased with confusion. . . .
For an antidote to this sad tale, you might want to check out another book review that highlights evolving graphic illustration and technological change: Nicholson Baker's look at The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York (also available here).
Note particularly how the cost of rag paper led publishers to conserve pages by shrinking type, thereby focusing even greater attention on the accompanying artwork. Another noteworthy feature: how pictures in junk media served to thwart the limits of convention. While law enforcement condemned the flash press as immoral, they missed its most powerful act of subversion: moving the culture away from typeset words to graphic media.
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