tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3024420441109756132.post2325474038107218272..comments2023-07-27T18:00:20.383-07:00Comments on Cole's Comics: Announcements: New Cole Article at The Comics Journal, Upcoming BooksPaul C.Tumeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05398929835829679477noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3024420441109756132.post-53393826455381993802013-09-02T08:59:05.602-07:002013-09-02T08:59:05.602-07:00Hi Gene,
Just seeing this. Thanks for your commen...Hi Gene,<br /><br />Just seeing this. Thanks for your comment. I certainly don't mind being referenced. I think the previous comment (to which I thought I replied) was about dating my posts, so that people could specifically cite the articles in a bibliography. <br /><br />I read your piece, and I think you raise an interesting point. I felt Harvey Pekar viewed Plastic Man and superhero comics in general from a broad cultural-historical perspective. I think his introduction to that particular volume of the PLASTIC MAN ARCHIVES is actually quite insightful and valuable. I also think that Cole was practicing -- in Plastic Man and other works -- his own souped-up version of screwball humor. Not satire. Screwball has a whiff of satire, but it encompasses many other elements, including: extreme reactions, nonsense, ironic twistings of reality )something Plas literally embodied), and a density of background gags (which is where the primary intersection is with Kurtzman and Elder's MAD stories). In any case, Pekar was an astute critic, and his introduction is useful for a different perspective -- not a comios fan so much as the perspective of a guy who wrote much more about jazz music and early American literature than he ever did about comics.<br /><br />Thanks again for the comment.Paul C.Tumeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05398929835829679477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3024420441109756132.post-8388562459284058202013-08-09T14:45:47.726-07:002013-08-09T14:45:47.726-07:00Congratulatios on getting greater exposure for you...Congratulatios on getting greater exposure for your Cole expertise.<br /><br />I saw another fellow ask you if you minded being referenced, but I didn't see a response. I already went ahead and cited your reprint of a PM story in my blog-essay; see what you think.<br /><br />http://arche-arc.blogspot.com/2013/08/opposing-ghosts.htmlGene Phillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11495562795211277146noreply@blogger.com