Drawn

This is the best to you? You need to get out more.

This is the best to you? You need to get out more.

The hard truth? Pretty unimpressive on so many levels.

Sorry.

The hard truth? Pretty unimpressive on so many levels.

Sorry.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion. Even if it comes from someone named ‘Bobo’.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion. Even if it comes from someone named ‘Bobo’.

it’s crap. I am not very impressed what is being
presented on this former great DRAWN site.

it’s crap. I am not very impressed what is being
presented on this former great DRAWN site.

Once again, like the argument with the work of Chris Ware, it’s a matter of personal preference. One man’s punch and all that.

Obviously we cannot please everyone all the time.How dull it would be if everyone always agreed on this blog? The point is to showcase a variety of opinion, styles and tastes, so that hopefully it creates dialogue, as well as an interest for everyone, including those who like the work of Ms. Simmonds.

Jeepers, we’ve only been up a few months and already we’re hasbeens! I guess we should start planning our comeback!

Once again, like the argument with the work of Chris Ware, it’s a matter of personal preference. One man’s punch and all that.

Obviously we cannot please everyone all the time.How dull it would be if everyone always agreed on this blog? The point is to showcase a variety of opinion, styles and tastes, so that hopefully it creates dialogue, as well as an interest for everyone, including those who like the work of Ms. Simmonds.

Jeepers, we’ve only been up a few months and already we’re hasbeens! I guess we should start planning our comeback!

I was named after St. Bobo Ignacius XIV, patron saint of pen salesmen.
Anyway, comics sadly fall into far too few categories:
a. unreadable, self-important, far too personal self pity parties (see C. Ware, Craig Thompson, and so many others). While usually immaculately and beautifully drawn, the reader is left with the sad sensation that they have just wasted time reading someone’s personal diary, complete with masturbatory details.
b. teenage revenge fantasies in the form of homoerotic tights wearing mutants.
c. personal projects that appeal mostly to the creator. Like contemporizing Thomas Hardy or Madame Bovary. I’m pretty happy with the real Thomas Hardy, thank you very much.

I was named after St. Bobo Ignacius XIV, patron saint of pen salesmen.
Anyway, comics sadly fall into far too few categories:
a. unreadable, self-important, far too personal self pity parties (see C. Ware, Craig Thompson, and so many others). While usually immaculately and beautifully drawn, the reader is left with the sad sensation that they have just wasted time reading someone’s personal diary, complete with masturbatory details.
b. teenage revenge fantasies in the form of homoerotic tights wearing mutants.
c. personal projects that appeal mostly to the creator. Like contemporizing Thomas Hardy or Madame Bovary. I’m pretty happy with the real Thomas Hardy, thank you very much.

lol @ bobo. I find too much of type A.

lol @ bobo. I find too much of type A.

I’m so glad to see Posy SImmonds featured on Drawn. She has produced the most wonderful social observations and satirical work for decades. The Ware family that was serialised in the seventies in the Guardian (which satirised the intellectual, woolly, slightly left of centre, lentil eating type of person who read the Guardian in those days) was a masterpiece. If you look properly at her work and read the story as it develops she shows tremendous wit and acute observation of the world she portrays. I can understand that if you have no contact whatsoever with the kind of English, middle-class, intellectual circles that she tends to portray then you might have to work a bit harder to appreciate her work.

I’m so glad to see Posy SImmonds featured on Drawn. She has produced the most wonderful social observations and satirical work for decades. The Ware family that was serialised in the seventies in the Guardian (which satirised the intellectual, woolly, slightly left of centre, lentil eating type of person who read the Guardian in those days) was a masterpiece. If you look properly at her work and read the story as it develops she shows tremendous wit and acute observation of the world she portrays. I can understand that if you have no contact whatsoever with the kind of English, middle-class, intellectual circles that she tends to portray then you might have to work a bit harder to appreciate her work.

I like examples from all the comics categories a(diary) b(tights) and c(personal projects) if they are done well… but i agree that there should be MORE categories in order for comics to be more enjoyabe for more people… I have the Posy Simmons called GEMMA BOVARY which i enjoyed very much, and it isn’t a strict contemporizing of Madame Bovary.

I like examples from all the comics categories a(diary) b(tights) and c(personal projects) if they are done well… but i agree that there should be MORE categories in order for comics to be more enjoyabe for more people… I have the Posy Simmons called GEMMA BOVARY which i enjoyed very much, and it isn’t a strict contemporizing of Madame Bovary.

Thanks for the heads-up about Posy Simmonds’ new Guardian feature. There is also an archive on the Guardian site of her “Literary Life” strip. http://books.guardian.co.uk/posysimmonds/archive/0,12699,852391,00.html

Her accomplished wash drawings and wry social observations remind me of Charles Saxon’s beautiful work for The New Yorker.

Thanks for the heads-up about Posy Simmonds’ new Guardian feature. There is also an archive on the Guardian site of her “Literary Life” strip. http://books.guardian.co.uk/posysimmonds/archive/0,12699,852391,00.html

Her accomplished wash drawings and wry social observations remind me of Charles Saxon’s beautiful work for The New Yorker.

I’ve got the published version of Posy’s ‘Literary Life’, and it is bloody brilliant. Her wry observations of the literary/publishing world are extremely witty as well as being very perceptive. I don’t think one has to be a Brit to appreciate her perspective, just someone who appreciates a very intelligent but understated social analysis of the world around us. But obviously it is not everyone’s cuppa.

I’ve got the published version of Posy’s ‘Literary Life’, and it is bloody brilliant. Her wry observations of the literary/publishing world are extremely witty as well as being very perceptive. I don’t think one has to be a Brit to appreciate her perspective, just someone who appreciates a very intelligent but understated social analysis of the world around us. But obviously it is not everyone’s cuppa.

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