Comments on: http://blog.pylonsound.com/?p=88 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 01:53:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Jeff http://blog.pylonsound.com/?p=88#comment-47 Jeff Sat, 11 Dec 2010 17:38:24 +0000 http://blog.pylonsound.com/?p=88#comment-47 Oh, I probably would have phrased that more delicately if I thought anyone from CV would ever see it. I think that in these older comics there's a lot of good and stylish (and hurried and flawed but maybe better for it) drawings meeting up with the limitations of their printing methods in ways that look better to me now than they probably would have at the time. I hated Ben Day dots and poorly offset colors as a little kid. A lot of these individual panels hold up better in isolation than most of the Pop art appropriations which followed, and you guys have a good eye for casual dialogue in stories which reveal a lot about cultural assumptions of the not-at-all-distant past. The whole approach is funny because it's insightful, which is why "Oh, he's just acting gay," or "Mother, I love Dick and we're getting married!" seem underwhelming by comparison. So yeah, I think you guys are better than "how queer!" jokes but either way I have like 250 images saved to my "Comically Vintage" folder on my desktop. Oh, I probably would have phrased that more delicately if I thought anyone from CV would ever see it.

I think that in these older comics there’s a lot of good and stylish (and hurried and flawed but maybe better for it) drawings meeting up with the limitations of their printing methods in ways that look better to me now than they probably would have at the time. I hated Ben Day dots and poorly offset colors as a little kid. A lot of these individual panels hold up better in isolation than most of the Pop art appropriations which followed, and you guys have a good eye for casual dialogue in stories which reveal a lot about cultural assumptions of the not-at-all-distant past. The whole approach is funny because it’s insightful, which is why “Oh, he’s just acting gay,” or “Mother, I love Dick and we’re getting married!” seem underwhelming by comparison.

So yeah, I think you guys are better than “how queer!” jokes but either way I have like 250 images saved to my “Comically Vintage” folder on my desktop.

]]> By: Comically Vintage http://blog.pylonsound.com/?p=88#comment-45 Comically Vintage Fri, 03 Dec 2010 10:26:26 +0000 http://blog.pylonsound.com/?p=88#comment-45 Thousands would disagree, but we're glad you like *something* about the blog! Thanks for reading. :) Thousands would disagree, but we’re glad you like *something* about the blog!

Thanks for reading. :)

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