Best Comics Criticism of 2007 2

Everyone’s A Critic: The Best Criticism of 2007 round-up that I participated in is now up. You can see my runners-up here.

The choices by the other participants are disappointing to me. Some of them seem to have a strange idea of what constitutes “criticism,” which is a post for another day.

There are a few gems. Bart Beaty’s Unpopular Culture should have been on my list. I never wrote about it, but I did enjoy it.

I’d like to find the time (as reading French takes at least twice as long for me as English) to read Beaty’s and Wivel’s picks: Thierry Groensteen’s Objet Culturel Non-Identifiée and L’Assocation’s third Éprouvette volume (respectively) (a cheaper way to get both volumes would help too).

I can’t argue with any of Jog’s pieces, I didn’t pick one more because I didn’t have any one to single out. His writing feels more like an ongoing continuum.

Edit: My “related posts” feature just brought up another addition to my runners-up list: Tom McCarthy’s Tintin and the Secret of Literature, which I read in 2006 but came out in the US this year.

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