Thursday, December 02, 2004
I'm a PhD candidate in English, and I love comic books.'
We won't get into the debate over whether comics are worthwhile literature (I think they are), but this entry at Power Line intrigued me:
Karl Zinsmeister is the editor of American Enterprise magazine, one of the best political publications in America. Karl has been an embedded journalist in Iraq, and has written two excellent books, Boots on the Ground and Dawn Over Baghdad, about his experiences. Now, as reader Michael Turner notes, Karl has branched out into a new medium: comic books. He has authored a series of Marvel comic books called Combat Zone: True Tales of GIs in Iraq . . . I like it--this is a medium in which the liberals will have a hard time competing. By the way, wasn't "Combat Zone" the name of a '60s television series about World War II?
Of course, here Ed Driscoll says that:
I haven't bought a comic book in 25 years, but since around the 1980s I'd guess, it seems like the left has increasingly been ensconced there, making changes subtle
He really should read comics. Liberals have generally taken over. There are a few conservatives working in comics (John Byrne, for example) but the "hot" writers right now are Mark Millar (an anti-American Scotsman), Alan Moore (great writer, but so left wing he's off the charts), Frank Miller (who makes fun of Ronald Reagan in his "The Dark Night Returns"), Peter David (go see his blog and scroll on down - he hates Bush with a passion) - etc. etc. I could go on and on, but comics are, by and large, written by liberals.
I still enjoy them, because for the most part they stay away from overt moralizing and didactic diatribes. But liberals haven't just made "inroads" into comics. For the most part, they control the creative side of the industry.
We won't get into the debate over whether comics are worthwhile literature (I think they are), but this entry at Power Line intrigued me:
Karl Zinsmeister is the editor of American Enterprise magazine, one of the best political publications in America. Karl has been an embedded journalist in Iraq, and has written two excellent books, Boots on the Ground and Dawn Over Baghdad, about his experiences. Now, as reader Michael Turner notes, Karl has branched out into a new medium: comic books. He has authored a series of Marvel comic books called Combat Zone: True Tales of GIs in Iraq . . . I like it--this is a medium in which the liberals will have a hard time competing. By the way, wasn't "Combat Zone" the name of a '60s television series about World War II?
Of course, here Ed Driscoll says that:
I haven't bought a comic book in 25 years, but since around the 1980s I'd guess, it seems like the left has increasingly been ensconced there, making changes subtle
He really should read comics. Liberals have generally taken over. There are a few conservatives working in comics (John Byrne, for example) but the "hot" writers right now are Mark Millar (an anti-American Scotsman), Alan Moore (great writer, but so left wing he's off the charts), Frank Miller (who makes fun of Ronald Reagan in his "The Dark Night Returns"), Peter David (go see his blog and scroll on down - he hates Bush with a passion) - etc. etc. I could go on and on, but comics are, by and large, written by liberals.
I still enjoy them, because for the most part they stay away from overt moralizing and didactic diatribes. But liberals haven't just made "inroads" into comics. For the most part, they control the creative side of the industry.
