Cerebus Digital

[bryant]

The first two issues of High Society showed up on Comixology this week. The first one was free, so I bought it. It’s really gorgeous: high-def, quality scans for the most part. There are one or two pages where the white on black text fills in a bit much, but given the unfortunate house fire which destroyed a bunch of the negatives recently, I am not unhappy about that.

It’s gorgeous and funny and an amazing achievement and this is even before Gerhard came on board. Plus there are 30 or so pages of notebooks and historical stuff at the end. Issue two is only 99 cents, which is a bargain — at the rate of a couple of issues a week, I would have no financial qualms about buying all the Cerebus this way.

Then I happened to read this stuff about his current negotiations with Fantagraphics. So. Plus the misogyny.

Like any number of others, I will spend some vague amount of time wrestling with the problem of great art created by someone not so great, with very not great messages embedded therein.

Mirrored from Population: One.

Comments

[kodi]

I read the "this stuff" link, and I... think I know less about things now than I did before I started reading it. Yeow.

[bruceb.livejournal.com]

That's pretty common in accounts of trying to deal with Sim. Some of us have been seeing things like that since the '80s, and the general pattern is, eventually someone can take a coherent overview years after the fact.

I saw the offering on Comixology, and thought about it. I mean, I really like High Society. I quote from it even now. But...Sim's gotten enough of my money, I'm thinking.