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Can a comic book be a novel? idiots on Jimmy Corrigan...

 
 
Tom Coates
08:02 / 14.12.01
late review being dim?
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
08:05 / 14.12.01
I'll say!

'I haven't read it, but...'
 
 
Sax
08:33 / 14.12.01
quote:Craig Brown: The pictures don't appeal to me, especially the actual people - not much movement in these.

Durrr!

And why the fuck ask the former boss of the Scottish national football team what he thinks about comics, anyway?
 
 
sleazenation
08:56 / 14.12.01
er... why did Miranda Sawyer go on there if she had not read her FREE COPY damn thing?

[ 14-12-2001: Message edited by: sleazenation ]
 
 
The Natural Way
08:56 / 14.12.01
Oh well....
 
 
yawn - thing's buddy
08:56 / 14.12.01
hmmmmm.
 
 
DaveBCooper
12:32 / 14.12.01
Miranda Sawyer's comments made me shake my head - though she did slightly redeem herself with the praise for From Hell.

Tom Paulin never fails to make me laugh. He really does seem to have his dial constantly set to 'anti'. There was a nice tale about an irish band calling themselves tompaulin, and saying it was because he was their hero for always disagreeing with everything. Paulin heard about this, and - you guessed it - rang up to disagree with this assertion...

Good to see coverage for the book on national TV, yes, but it seems that the reviewers didn't take it very seriously - not reading something you're meant to be reviewing is very bad form, surely? How would people respond if a film reviewer said they'd had headphones on during a film, but had enjoyed the onscreen images?

DBC
 
 
Ganesh
12:44 / 14.12.01
[stirring] Or said they hadn't heard The Strokes album but disliked it on the grounds that the cover's sexist? [/stirring]
 
 
sleazenation
12:57 / 14.12.01
[cheap shot] I must say I find Miranda's novels to be exercises in tedium. Not that i've read them you understand...[/cheap shot]
 
  
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