- Crumb (Terry Zwigoff, 1994), was an excelent movie. It was impossible to suposse that the old boring members of the Academy awarded it with an Oscar, but the movie was nominated to best Documentary.
- With the same Crumb’s Director (see arbitrariness #1), and a luxurious cast,The film Ghost World is absolutely inferior than the incredible graphic novel in whish was based, Ghost World by Daniel Clowes. Enid (Thora Birch), makes a lot of stupid things, completely inconsistent with the original character. We adore Enid, in the comic-book, but we despise Enid, in the movie. With her neurosis and her weakness, Enid, in the comic, was not a bitch.
- The tenth chapter of “Masters of Horror” 1st season, Sick Girl, is an original story, written and directed by the brilliant and very talented Lucky McKee (his film “May” is a little master piece too). Despite the Zwigoff attempts, Sick Girl is very much closer than the 90’s indie comic spirit, and not only to the great Daniel Clowes, but to the universe created by Jaime Hernandez in his Locas series, on the legendary Love and Rockets magazine.
- Art School Confidential? I don´t know, I didn’t see it, actually, I didn’t want to see it.
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Hey¡
Good look with your new blog,
I haven’t seen Art School Confidential, I agree that Ghost World is better as a comic than as a movie. But the original most of the times is better, that is for books as for comics.
Crumb is a gret documentary. I showed to my students here in NY (I was teaching comics and Media at City University of NY) and they loved it!
I liked the old Hernandez stories, the first time I read them was in Portuguese in a Brazilian comic magazine called Animal in 1992. I don’t like much what they are doing now..
Congratulation again, I’ll read you often and I’ll link your blog to mine,
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Thanks, Ulises!
The latest Hernandez work is subject for another Arbitrariness post!