On Monday, June 18, 2001 5:53 PM, Horn, John wrote
>Since things are so quiet lately, I thought I'd throw out a book
>recommendation. ;-)
>
>I just finished reading "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" by
>Michael Chabon. It's set in the Golden Age of comics and it's about a
comic
>book writer and artist who come up with "The Escapist" as an answer to
>"Superman". It's sprinkled with a fair helping of "real" comic writers and
>artists and their characters throughout the book. It pretty much follows
>comics from the dawn of the Golden Age through World War II and to the end
>with the Comic Code, etc.
>
>Very interesting and I recommend it. It's obvious that Chabon reads and
>loves comic books. I'm a huge comic book fan and an avid gamer, especially
>of the game Champions. It's been a while since I have run Champions and
>reading this book really got my creative juices flowing. It makes me wish
I
>could start GMing again (although with two small children that probably
>won't happen anytime soon...)
>
>It won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize, too. But don't hold that against it.
>
> - John
On a somewhat related subject:
In French, comic books or rather graphic novels are a whole literary genre.
There are lots (and lots) of mature stories told through this medium. A
good part of the stories are Science Fiction, amongst which my favorites
are Les Cit�s Obscures (Cities of the Fantastic) by Schuiten and Peters
(http://www.urbicande.be), all of Enki Bilal's work, as well as anything
drawn by Moebius. I did a quick search on Amazon, and all of these
authors/drawers (as in they don't paint, the draw?) had some of their
works available in English.
Try them out!
Jean-Louis Couturier
