Liz's review of Cult Fiction: Art & Comics
Cult Fiction: Art & Comics by Paul Gravett
Liz's review
rating:
bookshelves:
comics--theory-and-practice
recommended for:
someone from brooklyn who wasn't born there
status:
Read in February, 2008
I originally thought that this was yet another anthology of contemporary comics and art comics; turns out that it's the catalog for a traveling exhibition on the intersection between contemporary art/illustration and contemporary comics. It's a really beautiful book, well printed and designed, that is a joy to hold in your sweaty, little hands. Beyond that, it's fairly uninformative with few photos, most of which are removed from context (arg! context is very important!) and has a selaction on interviews and that are pleasant at best (Joe Sacco, Paul McDevitt) but mostly obnoxious (Yoshitomo Nara's non-answers, Killoffer), annoying (Travis Millard's illegible scrawl, Killoffer), or too fucking precious (Melinda Gebbie's simple, continued existence.)
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