Reason Writers Around Town: Brian Doherty on the Art of Curating Comics

At the Los Angeles Review of Books, Senior Editor Brian Doherty reviews Paul Levitz's 75 Years of DC Comics, Jerry Robinson's The Comics: An Illustrated History of Comic Strip Art 1895-2010, and Brian Walker's The Comics: The Complete Collection, three recent books that provide a history of comics surrounded by rich and copious strip reproductions.

Read all about it here.

Comments

[WWJGD]

Comic books open thread?
Comic books open thread.

So...how about that DC reboot thing there..

[Jeff P]

Ah, yes. 75 years of comics made irrelevant because come bean-counter thinks Superman isn't gritty enough.

[Fist of Etiquette]

DC Comics? What's that?

[Ska]

I went to see Captain America. It was entertaining. That brunette with the sweet rack was hot as hell. I don't read comics so I had very low expectations.

But that wasn't going to be my point. I was watching the trailers for what movies we have to look forward to. A new Spiderman remake, a Mission:Impossible sequel, some kind of outbreak movie....I mean wtf Hollywood. Get your shit together. New movies fucking stink.