I agree with you: the tone of that article was condescending and downright disrespectful to the students being written about. It's a disturbing trend that I notice about coverage of manga and graphic novels; the writers assume so much about the books they're writing about, but never actually read them.
I also agree with you about the value judgments on the words/pictures ratio. I've read War and Peace, and I do love all those words jammed into those 2,000 pages; it's an amazing read. Equally amazing and epic is Howard Cruise's Stuck Rubber Baby or Spiegelman's Maus. The fact that the second two happen to be graphic novels doesn't diminish their literary value and emotional impact on the reader.
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on 2008-06-19 03:47 am (UTC)I agree with you: the tone of that article was condescending and downright disrespectful to the students being written about. It's a disturbing trend that I notice about coverage of manga and graphic novels; the writers assume so much about the books they're writing about, but never actually read them.
I also agree with you about the value judgments on the words/pictures ratio. I've read War and Peace, and I do love all those words jammed into those 2,000 pages; it's an amazing read. Equally amazing and epic is Howard Cruise's Stuck Rubber Baby or Spiegelman's Maus. The fact that the second two happen to be graphic novels doesn't diminish their literary value and emotional impact on the reader.