I haven't gone into a comic shop in years- were these segments designed to be sold in 90-page chunks?- I can see this working in smaller elements- a lot of work sweat,talent and (I'm guessing) blood went into all this- I can see that- but to what avail?- not knowing anything about you untill last Sunday's Snow Dope in the NYTimes (short-sweet- to the point)-I'm not sure what to make of this- if it's all one big joke- it's an over-long one (Kurtzman started with one-page ideas (HEY LOOK) and did fantastic 7 or 8 page stories in Two -Fisted Tales and Frontline Combat (mostly all war-related and ALL anti-war when poeple were fighting,killing and dying in Korea)- I think it's fantastic that all this Act-i-vate internet comic work is offered for free, BUT- this story is like giving a great big over-rich chocolate cake to your readers and saying "Here it is kids- eat all you want- I'm open all night..." Eisner did his best work in 8-page Spirit Sunday segments- at the end- when he allowed himself a longer format- some of his later stories were great- some not so great..Kirby..made two-page splash panels an art form- but I've never cared much for super-heros so I'm not going to drag this comment out much longer...I liked the red backgrounds a lot...
Both IMMORTAL and FEAR, MY DEAR were created in weekly chunks, 6 - 8 [sometimes 10 -1 2] panels at a time.
BILLY DOGMA is as sincere and emotionally autobiographical as I can possibly muster in the comix form.
If you want more stuff like SNOW DOPE, check out my semi-autobio webcomic, STREET CODE [which I just put on hiatus until next Fall to start another graphic novel for Vertigo]: http://www.zudacomics.com/street_code
10:39am / Dec 30, 2008