More pictures and conversations

samarcand and I boast that when we get to talking about comics we can clear a room in 90 seconds flat. We don't have the "Who would win in a fight between the Hulk and the Thing?" debates, but start us on favourite letterers...

The criticism that really works for me is the study of detail, because the specifics of the text are in the details which add up to the whole (it takes me longer to see pattern and structure, but I get there eventually); that's what I liked about Douglas Wolk's book Reading Comics.

No sooner have I posted on that subject than along comes another conversation I'd have loved to hear: Eddie Campbell and Bryan Talbot disagreeing about speech balloons.