Was not aware of the change in drawing paper sizes, but that would explain a lot. Those Thor issues would certainly be my choice for his peak at Marvel along with anything featuring the Inhumans (apart from the final issue of Silver Surfer), but I also have a lot of time for some of the material he produced with Joe Simon. Especially on some of the odder titles they brought out. I always liked Black Magic and the various kid gang books. I recently read, in electronic form, some of the strips Joe and Jack did for Fox (I think) and was stunned at how much energy they had.
I'm fascinated by the idea of an objective measure of artistic merit. I've always seen it as a contradiction in myself, that I am regarded by some as a 'full-on rationalist' (a quotation from a twenty year old in my philosophy of the mind class last year) and at the same time am resistant to the whole idea of the analysis of the artistic merit of anything, book, comic that I enjoy.
I am fine with the analysis of things I don't like, but am frightened that by breaking something I enjoy down to its component parts, that I will lose the thing that makes it special. One or two exceptions to that but not many.
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Date: 2008-04-17 03:20 pm (UTC)I'm fascinated by the idea of an objective measure of artistic merit. I've always seen it as a contradiction in myself, that I am regarded by some as a 'full-on rationalist' (a quotation from a twenty year old in my philosophy of the mind class last year) and at the same time am resistant to the whole idea of the analysis of the artistic merit of anything, book, comic that I enjoy.
I am fine with the analysis of things I don't like, but am frightened that by breaking something I enjoy down to its component parts, that I will lose the thing that makes it special. One or two exceptions to that but not many.