PsFantasy.com Forums - View Single Post

Pu the Owl · Nov 10th, 2004, 12:12 AM

I used to read comics a lot more when I was younger. My mother used to own a bookstore, so at home we had many comic books too. Most of them were classics and older stuff. Among them I could read some superheroes comics, Disney comics, Dick Tracy, Corto Maltese, Tex, Diabolik, Moomin, Mafalda, the Peanuts and many others. Some of them were politically oriented and when I was young I couldn't understand what they were about. Some of the others are probably not very famous among this site's audience (I told you they were old stuff, or also non-American...). I'm not too fond of superheroes comics. I've never really liked the various X-Men, Spiderman, Hulk, Batman etc... But I do like stuff like Peanuts a lot. They're probably one of the best things I had in my childhood, speaking of "literature". And they still are something I adore.

Nowadays I like manga more, in general. But no manga can be like the Peanuts to me. Or at least, the best mangas can be as good as them, even if they're so different that making a comparison would be pretty unfair and pointless. Still, the Peanuts appear to me more as a form of modern poetry, which is something a manga can rarely be.

Probably manga products were influenced by comics at the beginning. Now I find the opposite thing is happening in most cases. Comics are way too serial (not that manga is not a serial product), so to new ideas many comics authors find mangas inspirational and in some cases they end copying Japanese stuff, losing great part of their potential and originality. For example, I can't easily accept a non-Japanese comic copying average manga drawing style.

As for the movies... well, most of them are not that good to be taken into any consideration. The others are just not my genre of movies, really.

Anyway, I'm somewhat ignorant when it comes to comics. I told you I've read them, but apart from few cases, I'm not into this subject at all.

X vBulletin 3.8.10 Debug Information
Page Generation 0.02210 seconds Memory Usage 1,903KB Queries Executed 9 (?)
More Information
Template Usage: (1)SHOWTHREAD_SHOWPOST (1)ad_footer_end (1)ad_footer_start (1)ad_header_end (1)ad_header_logo (1)ad_navbar_below (1)footer (1)gobutton (1)header (1)headinclude (1)option (1)postbit_legacy (1)postbit_onlinestatus (1)postbit_reputation (1)postbit_wrapper (1)spacer_close (1)spacer_open Phrase Groups Available: global postbit reputationlevel showthread	Included Files: ./showpost.php ./global.php ./includes/init.php ./includes/class_core.php ./includes/config.php ./includes/functions.php ./includes/class_datastore.php ./includes/datastore/datastore_cache.php ./includes/class_hook.php ./includes/functions_cat_cfgeoblock.php ./includes/functions_cat_edittime.php ./includes/adminfunctions.php ./includes/functions_bigthree.php ./includes/class_postbit.php ./includes/class_bbcode.php ./includes/functions_reputation.php Hooks Called: init_startup cache_permissions fetch_postinfo_query fetch_postinfo fetch_threadinfo_query fetch_threadinfo fetch_foruminfo style_fetch cache_templates global_start parse_templates global_setup_complete showpost_start bbcode_fetch_tags bbcode_create postbit_factory showpost_post postbit_display_start fetch_musername reputation_image postbit_imicons bbcode_parse_start bbcode_parse_complete_precache bbcode_parse_complete postbit_display_complete showpost_complete
Messages:

Nov 10th, 2004, 12:12 AM	#5
Pu the Owl Useless Oracle™ Joined: Jan 2002 Location: Everywhere Posts: 5,136	I used to read comics a lot more when I was younger. My mother used to own a bookstore, so at home we had many comic books too. Most of them were classics and older stuff. Among them I could read some superheroes comics, Disney comics, Dick Tracy, Corto Maltese, Tex, Diabolik, Moomin, Mafalda, the Peanuts and many others. Some of them were politically oriented and when I was young I couldn't understand what they were about. Some of the others are probably not very famous among this site's audience (I told you they were old stuff, or also non-American...). I'm not too fond of superheroes comics. I've never really liked the various X-Men, Spiderman, Hulk, Batman etc... But I do like stuff like Peanuts a lot. They're probably one of the best things I had in my childhood, speaking of "literature". And they still are something I adore. Nowadays I like manga more, in general. But no manga can be like the Peanuts to me. Or at least, the best mangas can be as good as them, even if they're so different that making a comparison would be pretty unfair and pointless. Still, the Peanuts appear to me more as a form of modern poetry, which is something a manga can rarely be. Probably manga products were influenced by comics at the beginning. Now I find the opposite thing is happening in most cases. Comics are way too serial (not that manga is not a serial product), so to new ideas many comics authors find mangas inspirational and in some cases they end copying Japanese stuff, losing great part of their potential and originality. For example, I can't easily accept a non-Japanese comic copying average manga drawing style. As for the movies... well, most of them are not that good to be taken into any consideration. The others are just not my genre of movies, really. Anyway, I'm somewhat ignorant when it comes to comics. I told you I've read them, but apart from few cases, I'm not into this subject at all.