![]() ![]() Matthias Wivel ( ) pointed out a problem with this visual short cut: "To the uncharitable eye, this might be considered reductive, and thus a weakness of a work that ultimately seeks to convey truth." Agreed, it is a short cut, so, on the one hand it's truly a great visual find, but on the other hand it can't go beyond the surface (it's how others see us in a social situation, not what we really are at a particular point in time - if it's possible to pin down such a thing). Not even in the very exhaustive Stumptown Notes ( ) is Saul Steinberg's name seen anywhere. I say this because only two critics and a reporter (Matt Madden: ) mentioned Saul Steinberg in the reviews of Asterios Polyp that I read on the Apart from Rogers' and Moura's reviews Saul Steinberg's name can't be seen in reviews by: Hillary Chute ( ), Ng Suat Tong ( ), Charles Hatfield ( who cites comics artists' names left and right.), Derik Badman ( but he just wanted to talk about the graphic novel's ending), and others. I am perplexed because, once again, I realize how comics are truly an art form almost without memory. It's just a brief note stating my amazement. Reviewing the reviews, I suppose, but it's not even that. I'm doing a bit of metacriticism instead, again. ![]() This isn't a review or a criticism of David Mazzucchelli's Asterios Polyp (Pantheon Books, 2009 I'm not a reviewer, god forbid!). ![]()
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