Wednesday, February 28, 2007  
King by Ho Che Anderson

:: Posted by Bryan @ 2/28/2007 10:30:00 AM
Leroy Douresseaux looks back at Ho Che Anderson's monumental bio-comic King for Comic Book Bin:

Still it's good that Anderson didn't make the King he was "supposed to make." He didn't make the one for which other people (like me) would have wished. In spite of what faults it may have, King is example of what a cartoonist can create within the medium of the so-called "graphic narrative" when he uses all the artistic elements available to him. Anderson took an adventurous leap forward with the comic book, a brave, personal, artistic statement and an adventurous leap forward with the comic book - warts and all. King shows that comics can deal with subject matter weightier than, say, Wolverine's origins or just how screwed up Batman/Bruce Wayne is. Maybe Ho Che Anderson is one of the few cartoonists capable of treating comics as a medium of art and communication the way the great novelists, short story writers, musicians, and filmmakers treat their respective mediums.

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