Filibusting Comics #1by Trisha SebastianReviews may contain information that could be considered 'spoilers'. Readers should proceed at their own risk.
Publisher Credits Grade: 7 By now, everyone should have read Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud, the ground-breaking work that deconstructed, reconstructed, examined and exhumed the art behind comic books. You haven't read it yet? Shame on you! That's ten minutes in the naughty chair for you!Ahem, where were we? Ah yes, comics. Whenever you get two or more people together who like comics, eventually the discussion will turn to whether or not comics are a viable art form. Dylan Sisson explores this question and many others in this first issue of Filibusting Comics, a parody and homage to McCloud's work. Sisson must have studied the source work well in order to be as accurately parodical as he is. The sequence that always has me in stitches is the "McComics" sequence where Sisson tries to get into a debate with a "customer" who only wants a Coke, while his "comics monster" terrorizes artists and philosophers like Balzac and Truman Capote outside. This is a great read that manages to be informative at the same time as it's being satirical. It wouldn't hurt to include this in your collection. It really wouldn't hurt to get one of the T-shirts they're hawking in the back of the book either. (No, Sisson is not paying me for this endorsement.) Either way, you are supporting comics, and isn't that what we're here for anyway? Written: June 6, 2002
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