I read about as much of that thread as I could before I risked my brain exploding. It's sad to me that Dave's words have utterly eclipsed his work... and given that he's the only person ever to write and draw a monthly comic for 25 years and 300 issues, that's pretty fucking ridiculous.
I could give a rats ass what Dave Sim thinks, whether I agree with him or not. Who could possibly care what his opinions are about women, gays, or the price of tea in China? If he doesn't hold a public office or run a church, his personal beliefs are totally immaterial to the world, except maybe as an interesting factoid, like the play Abe Lincoln was seeing when he was shot.
The fact is, the way that Dave matters to the world is through the work he does, and that work is flat-out brilliant. He might be in the top-five most talented, influential and important comic-book creators who've ever lived.
I mean really, if Jack Kirby was a racist, would everyone agree that all discussion of him from now until the end of time be comprised of 90% complaining about his bigotry and 10% mentions that he created the Fantastic Four? It doesn't seem right to me to utterly sideline something so brilliant to focus on something so puerile, useless and sensational.
I just wish there was more discussion of "Cerebus" which I love, and less discussion of Dave's opinions, which no one should really care about.
I read about as much of that thread as I could before I risked my brain exploding. It's sad to me that Dave's words have utterly eclipsed his work... and given that he's the only person ever to write and draw a monthly comic for 25 years and 300 issues, that's pretty fucking ridiculous.
I could give a rats ass what Dave Sim thinks, whether I agree with him or not. Who could possibly care what his opinions are about women, gays, or the price of tea in China? If he doesn't hold a public office or run a church, his personal beliefs are totally immaterial to the world, except maybe as an interesting factoid, like the play Abe Lincoln was seeing when he was shot.
The fact is, the way that Dave matters to the world is through the work he does, and that work is flat-out brilliant. He might be in the top-five most talented, influential and important comic-book creators who've ever lived.
I mean really, if Jack Kirby was a racist, would everyone agree that all discussion of him from now until the end of time be comprised of 90% complaining about his bigotry and 10% mentions that he created the Fantastic Four? It doesn't seem right to me to utterly sideline something so brilliant to focus on something so puerile, useless and sensational.
I just wish there was more discussion of "Cerebus" which I love, and less discussion of Dave's opinions, which no one should really care about.
But we don't always get what we want.
You, however, can read any of the multiple other chats he's doing where he refuses to discuss gender politics.
That's every single one, except one.
Surely one out of the dozens he plans on doing isn't going to ruin your day?
Hi. I've been trying to post a "glamourpuss Dave Sim" thread and it doesn't seem to be working, probably because I'm really not very good at this. I've only got about five minutes until I have to leave for my next prayer time. So, I figured I'd jump in here and just mention that there are 100 stores in Canada and 200 in the US that have autographed copies of the Comics Industry Preview Edition of glamourpuss No.1 and that ALL the stores will be getting a copy (unautographed) in their Diamond Dateline package for Feb. 13.
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