tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7028806562606853589.post1318178343495582502..comments2024-02-16T04:51:05.736-08:00Comments on The Crib Sheet: Philippe Druillet's and Moebius' Approche Sur CentauriIsabelinhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07507303808891054319noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7028806562606853589.post-45772958797529936472015-05-20T07:45:00.214-07:002015-05-20T07:45:00.214-07:00Hi Barb: thanks for your comment! I remember seein...Hi Barb: thanks for your comment! I remember seeing a phone coupled with a tv showing the caller in Flash Gordon :)Isabelinhohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07507303808891054319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7028806562606853589.post-16677886903114027462015-05-20T06:55:35.747-07:002015-05-20T06:55:35.747-07:00Science fiction has become reality ... True in som...Science fiction has become reality ... True in some cases that it is fantacy but that fantasy is usual creative genius... Back in the early 60's late 50's buck rogers was flying in a space ship ... Look now where space exploration has gone so far as the "outer limits " of our universe and far beyond. Teraforming was thought of as science fiction and now scientists believe tera forming could be successful on Mars - a rocket is lifting off today .. Its destination Mars ...and at one time Darwin was thought as a science fiction ....Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08287827309026317407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7028806562606853589.post-44462842208084050332008-12-04T08:01:00.000-08:002008-12-04T08:01:00.000-08:00Here's a coda to my first comment:Jules Feiffer: "...Here's a coda to my first comment:<BR/>Jules Feiffer: "the whole idea of a space strip revolted me. I think I must have been in the army at the time. If I were in New York I think I would have resisted it - either talked him out of it or maybe quit, or whatever. Once I was in the Army I didn't care about the strip any more. It was just extra money, so I wrote what I had to." (Panels # 1, Summer 1979: 27).Isabelinhohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07507303808891054319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7028806562606853589.post-6814078872829964022008-12-04T07:48:00.000-08:002008-12-04T07:48:00.000-08:00Hi Santiago: I said that my opinions weren't v...Hi Santiago: I said that my opinions weren't very well grounded because I usually don't read much science fiction. Your comment reminded me of a Spirit story: "Outer Space." I just read it to write this answer and the least that I can say is that it was a painful experience (I'm not Eisner's biggest fan, that's for sure, but this story was written by Jules Feiffer). Science fiction in mass art comics is almost always just the manichean adventure genre. Flash Gordon is another proof of what I'm saying (and so is Dan Dare: sci-fi for children). All these stories are ridiculously childish. So much for the "golden age!" <BR/>Thanks for the "Ironwolf" tip. I can't promise anything, but maybe I'll read it. As for Schuiten & Peeters, not interested, sorry... <BR/>What you say about aesthetics is too complex to answer in a quick note, sorry again. (It surely deserves a post though.)Isabelinhohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07507303808891054319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7028806562606853589.post-82898344513319676612008-12-03T22:55:00.000-08:002008-12-03T22:55:00.000-08:00I agree with you on how much overblown the Metal H...I agree with you on how much overblown the Metal Hurlant science-fiction is; most of it seems to serve only as eye candy, and the revolution seems only happened aesthetically. Yeah, its goergerous art, but neither do I get all the fuzz and "groundbreaking" of, say, Corben´s "Den".<BR/><BR/>As Moebius himself said once, sci-fi is about anything but "science" nor "fiction". Good sci-fi stuff is about any other genre barely disguised with futurism stuffed in. Personally, I love Alex Raymond "Flash Gordon" because is obvious that he was trying to compete with Foster´s "Prince Valiant" (I´ve found in Flash Gordon more references and similitude to Marco Polo than to Buck Rogers). I´m also fond of some of the old Weird Fiction tales from EC, but it´s mostly because the good rendered work of the likes of Al Williamson or Wally Wood. Or Wolverton´s tales wicht are solely created to cheap thrills. On the other side, I don´t know if Luc and Francois Schuiten´s "The Hollow Lands" series can be labeled as science fiction since it´s so aesthetically diferent to anything else. So, indeed, the Metal Hurlant revolution was aesthetical, at leas as sci-fi goes.<BR/><BR/>A very good sci-fi comic that nicely fits in the label while still being good and polically overarticulated, is Chaykin and Mignola´s "Ironwolf".<BR/><BR/>By the way,I know your blog isn´t titled Golden Age Comic Book Stories, but, when offering a bait like this one it would be nice if you posted the complete damn thing!Santiago Fernandezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08490791665022598902noreply@blogger.com