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Brian Boyd on Vladimir Nabokov and Comix. Spiegelman
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Boyd (FOA ENG)" <b.boyd@auckland.ac.nz>
To: "'D. Barton Johnson '" <chtodel@cox.net>
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 2:59 PM
Subject: RE: Vladimir Nabokov and Comix.
> Such claims of course invite challenge, but I'm happy to stand by my
> ranking. I have taught Maus in a course with The Odyssey, Hamlet,
Mansfield
> Park, Anna Karenina, Ulysses and Ada, and it easily holds its own, for me
> and my students, in such company; I don't think Kirby could do that. I am
> also devoting a chapter to Maus in a book that includes The Odyssey,
Hamlet,
> Twelfth Night, Pride and Prejudice, and Ulysses, and have no fears of
ending
> with a squeak or a whimper.
>
> Brian Boyd
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. Barton Johnson
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Sent: 1/27/2004 7:21 AM
> Subject: Fw: Vladimir Nabokov and Comix.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Doug Thacker <mailto:dougthacker@yahoo.com>
> To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 2:27 AM
> Subject: Re: Vladimir Nabokov and Comix. Definitive edition containing
> slight correction
>
> The greatest figure so far in the history of comics, the first genius on
> the > scale of the great novelists and poets, is Art Spiegelman.
>
> Fans of the late Jack Kirby (including Art Spiegelman), and especially
> of his Fourth World series, might dispute that. And "on the scale of the
> great novelists and poets" is a bit much in any case.
>
> Check out http://www.google-watch.org <http://www.google-watch.org> .
>
>
>
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From: "Brian Boyd (FOA ENG)" <b.boyd@auckland.ac.nz>
To: "'D. Barton Johnson '" <chtodel@cox.net>
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 2:59 PM
Subject: RE: Vladimir Nabokov and Comix.
> Such claims of course invite challenge, but I'm happy to stand by my
> ranking. I have taught Maus in a course with The Odyssey, Hamlet,
Mansfield
> Park, Anna Karenina, Ulysses and Ada, and it easily holds its own, for me
> and my students, in such company; I don't think Kirby could do that. I am
> also devoting a chapter to Maus in a book that includes The Odyssey,
Hamlet,
> Twelfth Night, Pride and Prejudice, and Ulysses, and have no fears of
ending
> with a squeak or a whimper.
>
> Brian Boyd
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. Barton Johnson
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Sent: 1/27/2004 7:21 AM
> Subject: Fw: Vladimir Nabokov and Comix.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Doug Thacker <mailto:dougthacker@yahoo.com>
> To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 2:27 AM
> Subject: Re: Vladimir Nabokov and Comix. Definitive edition containing
> slight correction
>
> The greatest figure so far in the history of comics, the first genius on
> the > scale of the great novelists and poets, is Art Spiegelman.
>
> Fans of the late Jack Kirby (including Art Spiegelman), and especially
> of his Fourth World series, might dispute that. And "on the scale of the
> great novelists and poets" is a bit much in any case.
>
> Check out http://www.google-watch.org <http://www.google-watch.org> .
>
>
>
> _____
>
> Do you Yahoo!?
> Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool.
> <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=21608/*http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/>
> Try it!