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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7770591" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>I'll be happy to compare Mark Millar or Neil Gaimen with Dickens, Steinbeck, Melville, or Shakespeare.</p><p></p><p>1) I've read all the aforementioned authors.</p><p>2) All deal with adult themes.</p><p>3) Just like comic books, the novels of Dickens and the plays of Shakespeare were in their day considered low brow plebian fare hardly worthy of being called art. Dickens helped the novel earn respectability as an artform it didn't have before, and Shakespeare to this day upset certain literary snobs who are convinced that all the work of merit good old Bill composed was actually written by the more respectable Christopher Marlowe. You know, someone who didn't try to appeal to the 'groundlings'. What's really going on here is less a division between art and non-art, as it is between high social caste and low social caste. Maher is staking out a claim to be high brow, which, given the low character Maher continually exhibits, is a bit ridiculous. </p><p></p><p>My reading list doesn't just include comics, but 'books with pictures'. For example, I'm currently reading a collection of Swedish fairy tales illustrated by the incomparable John Bauer. I make no apologies for that. Nor will I apologize for my beloved annotated and illustrated edition of 'The Prince and the Pauper'. There are plenty of ways I could use to grow up and be better at 'adulting', and I dare say some criticism could be levied that way against the general public (Maher more so than most), but the fact that the public likes comic books is not one of them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7770591, member: 4937"] I'll be happy to compare Mark Millar or Neil Gaimen with Dickens, Steinbeck, Melville, or Shakespeare. 1) I've read all the aforementioned authors. 2) All deal with adult themes. 3) Just like comic books, the novels of Dickens and the plays of Shakespeare were in their day considered low brow plebian fare hardly worthy of being called art. Dickens helped the novel earn respectability as an artform it didn't have before, and Shakespeare to this day upset certain literary snobs who are convinced that all the work of merit good old Bill composed was actually written by the more respectable Christopher Marlowe. You know, someone who didn't try to appeal to the 'groundlings'. What's really going on here is less a division between art and non-art, as it is between high social caste and low social caste. Maher is staking out a claim to be high brow, which, given the low character Maher continually exhibits, is a bit ridiculous. My reading list doesn't just include comics, but 'books with pictures'. For example, I'm currently reading a collection of Swedish fairy tales illustrated by the incomparable John Bauer. I make no apologies for that. Nor will I apologize for my beloved annotated and illustrated edition of 'The Prince and the Pauper'. There are plenty of ways I could use to grow up and be better at 'adulting', and I dare say some criticism could be levied that way against the general public (Maher more so than most), but the fact that the public likes comic books is not one of them. [/QUOTE]
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