Grr

[yendi]

Dear pompous, semi-literate fucknut passing as an editor over at Wired "magazine":

Having seen your comments regarding the idea that a graphic novel can't be literature, might I recommend that A) you go read Gaiman and Vess's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," B) you go read Spiegelman's Maus (winner of a special Pulitzer), and C) you kindly shut the fuck up and go back to licking your own anus.

(Yes, at some point, I'll do a massive post about the last few days, the move, the house, the chocolate buffet, etc. Give me time to get my thoughts together).

Comments

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

Where does one get that version of Midsummer? Powells' doesn't list it, and I want it now that I've heard of it. :-D

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

It's collected in Sandman Vol. 3: Dream Country, which collects early one-issue stories of that comic. (I'm also fond of the story Dream of a Thousand Cats it includes.)

[muse0fire.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you bring up Maus - that was amazing piece of literature and the Wired editor can choke on it.

[auryn29a.livejournal.com]

I read that earlier and was gobsmacked at this guy's ignorance.

[curt-holman.livejournal.com]

"as literature, the comic book does not deserve equal status with real novels, or short stories. It's apples and oranges."

If it's "apples and oranges," the two things have equal status but are too different to be accurately compared to each other. It's one thing to say that graphic novels aren't the SAME as prose literature, and thus should be disqualified for an award for prose works. But he seems to be saying that they graphic novels just aren't as good, and he sounds like someone who's never read any beyond, say, The Dark Knight Returns.

OT: Neil Gaiman made me think of you

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

To change the subject to something less annoying, Neil Gaiman said this in an entry Friday:

Over the last five years I've suggested to the webpeople behind www.Neilgaiman.com that I'd love it if clicking on a link in the blog opened a new window rather than taking you away from the blog, and each time I ask they've sent back emails explaining why this was impossible, in ways that sounded convincing.

I mentioned this, slightly wistfully, to the web-elf, who went off and did something technical and then, a minute later, let me know I should try clicking on a link in the journal. I tried. It opened a new window.

It is a fine thing for a website to have a web-elf. Expect a plethora of interesting improvements to the site in the weeks and months ahead.

So Neil follows your philosophy about links. And is adorable when he says things like "It is a fine thing for a website to have a web-elf." (I wonder if she's a cute web-elf.)

[litch.livejournal.com]

I read that after seeing a link off of http://questionablecontent.net it irritated me until I realized it was standard flamebait and I lost a lot of respect for wired for deliverately publishing trolls