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Tuesday, June 28, 2005
I would like you to dance
22 years ago some lady gave birth to Ian T. Brill. Five days after celebrating one year of blogging I'm celebrating 22 years of breathing and the world of internet comic punditry has given me some good presents!
Matt Fraction and Joe Casey talk '70s comics. The books of "the Marvel Cosmic trilogy" of Englehart, Starlin and Gerber are the superhero comics I read now as opposed to whatever is coming out today. Hell, maybe I'll spend some of that birthday dough on Essential Luke Cage. They are comics of their era but their era is infinitely superior to the current one of superhero comics.
The man most responsible for me being a comic book pundit is Gary Groth, both because of his own writing and The Comics Journal. The fact that he's blogging now is enough for me to hang up my hat and say "why read me when you can read him?" I love that the smart, vicious and witty way he writes has translated into the blogosphere. The news of a Michael Kupperman book is tremendous good news and his points about The Harvey are good ones (also, they remind me of this Yummy Fur cover).
Stuff like that reaffirms my love of comics and writing about comics. Seems appropriate enough for the 22nd anniversary of me being alive.
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