JLD New writer/ Frankenstein joining

[Desaad]

Indeed, I don't hold with the notion that a limitation of space is a limitation of the message, or the craft.

It just felt very superficial to me. Lots of telling, lots of flashes of pop cultured elements of these ideas, but not ILLUMINATING, not INVIGORATING, which are very clearly two of the goals of that work.

Alan Moore used to say that he no longer wanted to do work that didn't address some great human truth. I feel like the works of Milligan and Morrison do just that, and I feel like Kot WANTED to do that, but his work is so derivative and so unartful that, for me, he failed. At the very minimum I want a unique delivery of ideas, and what I REALLY want is some unique synthesis of ideas that results in...well, in something new. When Milligan, and Moore, and Morrison are at their best they give me that. When they are at their worst they tend to give me something excellent anyway.

[Johnny P. Sartre]

Desaad, have you check the works of Nicolas De Crécy?

[Desaad]

I've seen you mention it but haven't picked anything up. I only read english and spanish, has any of his work been translated into either of those languages?

[Johnny P. Sartre]

English yes but Spanish... I do not know.

I HIGHLY recommend The Celestial Bibendum; a tour de force, grotesque, vile, highly original, highly satirical and William Burroughs (influence not copying) like story a young Pup named Diego and his journey of trying to win the Nobel Prize of Love in New York-on-the-Seine.

From there, I would move to absurd anthropomorphic series Salvatore, then to the 96 page silent comic Prosopopus (a brilliant exercise of the visual side of comics) and then to Glacial Period ("A story set thousands of years hence in a glacial period where all human history has been forgotten, a small group of archaeologists fall upon the Louvre, buried in age-old snow. They cannot begin to explain all the artifacts they see. What could they have meant? Their interpretations are nonsense, absurd, and farcical").

[Johnny P. Sartre]

Preview of his work, from Foligatto (which has been translated and released only in a Heavy metal mag).

[Desaad]

English yes but Spanish... I do not know.

I HIGHLY recommend The Celestial Bibendum; a tour de force, grotesque, vile, highly original, highly satirical and William Burroughs (influence not copying) like story a young Pup named Diego and his journey of trying to win the Nobel Prize of Love in New York-on-the-Seine.

From there, I would move to absurd anthropomorphic series Salvatore, then to the 96 page silent comic Prosopopus (a brilliant exercise of the visual side of comics) and then to Glacial Period ("A story set thousands of years hence in a glacial period where all human history has been forgotten, a small group of archaeologists fall upon the Louvre, buried in age-old snow. They cannot begin to explain all the artifacts they see. What could they have meant? Their interpretations are nonsense, absurd, and farcical").

Great, I'll give it a look. English is my first language, I was just putting spanish out there in case. :)

Sounds interesting, and LOOKS flatly brilliant. Wow.

[MajorHoy]

By the way, any chance the name of this thread could be changed since the first part (JLD New writer) is so out-of-date and based on misinformation?