Advice for the inept comic book reviewer
In The Book Standard, Jessa Crispin offers advice for reviewers tackling the elusive comic book or graphic novel. Her first, and perhaps most urgent, piece of advice: “‘They’re not just for kids anymore’ is not an original, interesting, clever or even remotely intelligent opening statement.” She also advises against comparing every artist to Art Spiegelman, or ghettoizing the genre in clusters of short reviews. And for that matter, writes Crispin, “Now that the arty comics are seen as almost respectable, isn’t it time for the superhero comics to get a little mainstream love?”
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