Comments on: Sweet Tooth, Discussed

By: Five Books I’d Read - Arts Desk - Washington City Paper

Five Books I’d Read - Arts Desk - Washington City Paper — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:15:13 +0000

[...] Che: A Graphic Biography, by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon. As previously discussed, I’m not much for graphic novels, but it’s pretty cool to stare at drawings of Ernesto [...]

By: Chris Foster

Chris Foster — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:48:06 +0000

I know, right! It's like these new fangled "computers" they have nowadays. They want to be like a TV but aren't. And they want to be like a typewriter and fail at that too!

By: Bryant

Bryant — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:03:05 +0000

Wow. You show a complete ignorance - and disdain - for a rich and varied media. To completely dismiss comics and graphic novels because you just don't get them? That's just condescending and pathetic. Try to come out of the 1980's and recognize just how far this medium has come.

By: TomHandy

TomHandy — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:33:07 +0000

The whole point of comics, at their best, is that they are a unique medium that does get to combine the visual with the textual. I haven't read Sweet Tooth so I can't comment on its successes or failures, but a good "graphic novel" (or comic book) can definitely succeed in both areas.