No longer the preserve of the hardcore geek,comics are moving absent from superheroes and into a new golden age of creativity and diversity. We talk to the indie writers and artists inking the changesNothing kills the excitement of a pop culture phenomenon like proclaiming that is has “grown up”. The final time this happened to the lurid (shocking; sensational), fast-paced, and gleefully disreputable world of comics,in the late 1980s, the adoption of adult themes and situations turned out to be a blind alley. Classics such as Alan Moore’s superhero deconstruction Watchmen and his anarchist thriller V for Vendetta, and Frank Miller’s brutalist take on Batman in The sunless Knight Returns,would stand the test of time (V becoming an often misunderstood handbook for the Occupy and Anonymous movements). The problem was, nothing came afterwards. Instead of inspiring new directions for comics, or these books only led to ever-decreasing iterations of the sunless,the anguished, the adolescent and the angry.
It’s getting to the point where saying you don’t like comics will perform as dinky sense as saying you don’t like novelsContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com