Sci-Fi

Son of Witz · 15 Dec 2010, 23:04 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org (Son of Witz)
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:04:09 -0800
Subject: (urth) Sci-Fi
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I feel you.
It's sorta how many cartoonists won't call themselves "cartoonists", or their output as "comics", instead calling them "comix" or "graphic novels" or "Bande Dessin?e" because so many comics are peurile trash.

I had this discussion with a famous cartoonist who said the problem was resolved with "Bande Dessin?e", and then I showed her my comic book TROG which was made with stop motion puppets and photography, but no drawings.  Doesn't quite fit, it's a comic book, pure and simple.

I wonder if anyone on this list ever bumped into my very obscure self published comic book, "TROG, In the Bacta-Tank Botch-Up".  A weird little gem of toilet reading, if I do say so myself. 

~witz


On Dec 15, 2010, at 2:37 PM, "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <danldo at gmail.com> wrote:

> "Sci-Fi" is the sound of two crickets screwing.
> 
> More seriously: "Sci-Fi" is a term made up by a publicity hack, in
> analogy with the then-popular "Hi-Fi" for "high fidelity" stereo
> equipment. It referred, and in many SF fans' minds still refers, to
> movies about giant insects devouring Cleveland and suchlike. "Sci-fi"
> is, in short, _bad_ science fiction.
> 
> Okay, it isn't like "Nigger," "Wop," Chink," etc., but it's offensive.
> 
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Son of Witz <Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Why is Sci-Fi offensive?
>> Is this like, If you were Straight-Edge playing in a Melvins or Black Sabbath cover band and you insisted that your genre be referred to as "Doom-Metal" rather than "Stoner-Rock"?
>> 
>> On Dec 15, 2010, at 1:50 PM, "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <danldo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Also, please refrain (note that I am asking politely) from using the term "sci-fi." Some find it very offensive
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