Friday, March 24, 2006
COMICS QUICKIE: EVERY GIRL IS THE END OF THE WORLD FOR ME
Dear Jeffrey Brown:
Regarding your new "book" Every Girl is the End of the World for Me:
Just because you wrote two good autobiographical comics about your relationships with girls, it doesn't mean that every single interaction you have with a girl is automatically interesting.
Also, writing "blah blah blah" when you're too lazy to write actual dialogue gets annoying fast.
Also, if you're going to draw a story with lots of female characters it would be helpful to be able to draw more than two types of women's faces.
Sincerely Yours,
Adam Stephanides
(Sorry for not having something more substantial with which to break my long silence, but Brown's book really is pointless and self-indulgent. I really liked Clumsy and Unlikely, but this book comes across as unintentional self-parody. It's also the sort of thing that detractors of the genre claim all autobiograpical comics are like. If I save one person from wasting eight bucks on it, this post will have been worth it.)
Dear Jeffrey Brown:
Regarding your new "book" Every Girl is the End of the World for Me:
Just because you wrote two good autobiographical comics about your relationships with girls, it doesn't mean that every single interaction you have with a girl is automatically interesting.
Also, writing "blah blah blah" when you're too lazy to write actual dialogue gets annoying fast.
Also, if you're going to draw a story with lots of female characters it would be helpful to be able to draw more than two types of women's faces.
Sincerely Yours,
Adam Stephanides
(Sorry for not having something more substantial with which to break my long silence, but Brown's book really is pointless and self-indulgent. I really liked Clumsy and Unlikely, but this book comes across as unintentional self-parody. It's also the sort of thing that detractors of the genre claim all autobiograpical comics are like. If I save one person from wasting eight bucks on it, this post will have been worth it.)
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