Wolfe and Gaiman

Lee Berman · 04 Jan 2011, 16:18 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 11:18:08 -0500
Subject: (urth) Wolfe and Gaiman
Message-ID: <SNT123-W1977B15D738866B4594310CF080 at phx.gbl>

>Gaiman is, IMO, a superior comics author. Those are not so easy to come by. 
>Of course comics are seen as a lesser art compared to proper Literature. 
>Gaiman of course doesn't claim to be on the same league, even in his 
>non-comics stuff.

I'd like to suggest the adjective "comics" be changed to "visual arts" or
something like that. Neil has had more than one of his works transferred
(through an obviously very expensive process) to the big screen. After 40 
years we may need to accept that Wolfe's work just isn't seen as amenable 
to this process.

I think it would be quite a mistake to think that Wolfe looks down his nose
at authorial work which translates well to visual.

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