Comments on: Comics: A Beginner’s Guide: Horror https://freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2008/07/comics-a-beginners-guide-horror Lollards in the high church of low culture Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Martin Skidmore https://freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2008/07/comics-a-beginners-guide-horror/comment-page-1#comment-458920 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:39:47 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12044#comment-458920 I’ve not seen that film – but in general, you shouldn’t judge a comic by a film of it. Otherwise, you could end up believing that the Men In Black comic was clearly better than anything Alan Moore has ever written, for instance.

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By: james https://freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2008/07/comics-a-beginners-guide-horror/comment-page-1#comment-458766 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:11:52 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12044#comment-458766 don’t know anything about the Manga, but the film version of “Uzumaki” is retaaaarded. then again I don’t like J-horror so there you go.

and C. Burns is a genius.

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By: Tom https://freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2008/07/comics-a-beginners-guide-horror/comment-page-1#comment-453819 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:35:54 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12044#comment-453819 There’s definitely a link between Wertham and the Frankfurt School – a comics critic called Bart Beaty has published some fairly in-depth examinations of Wertham’s actual thinking, partly in an attempt to rescue him from the demon-status he now ‘enjoys’ in US comics culture.

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By: a logged out p^nk s lord sukråt wötsit https://freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2008/07/comics-a-beginners-guide-horror/comment-page-1#comment-453794 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:41:44 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12044#comment-453794 slightly OT but i read a day or three ago (via that most infallible of sources, a blog comments thread) that wertham developed his line (which lead to EC being bowdlerised) from a reading of adorno’s “the authoritarian personality”!

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