While photographs can be either: “high” art as depicted in the composition, lighting, etc. of portraits and landscapes, or “low” art represented by mug shots and most snapshots, what is a photograph taken of a comic strip?
Yup. Wanted to purchase a two-page original, inked but not colored, pencil lines still visible, with dialogue, sketch from a Green Archer comic book I had as a kid: $500 for two 8 × 11.5 sheets of paper. Budget did not allow for it. Still kicking myself.
“I would suggest that it’s not the medium, but the quality of perception and expression, that determines the significance of art. But what would a cartoonist know?” -Bill Watterson, talking about this strip
Pretty sure you completely missed the point of JackButler’s post. The idea was to use a bunch of mumbo-jumbo words the way a lot of art critics and such do. They usually make about as much sense. Correct me if I’m wrong, JackButler.
ratlum about 11 years ago
Calvin will not settle for anything low.
margueritem about 11 years ago
Calvin, art critic…
Phapada about 11 years ago
look seriously….
in.amongst about 11 years ago
that is a low blow for cartoonists
Jillpoke about 11 years ago
Yeah…
cloudy now about 11 years ago
How about a painting of a cartoon of a painting – all torn apart by tiger claws?
orinoco womble about 11 years ago
What would Hobbes think of anime?
orinoco womble about 11 years ago
Where is our Hobbes, btw?
t3st about 11 years ago
calvin, a pioneer of recursive art :-)
DENISE ST PIERRE about 11 years ago
Postmodernism?
cdward about 11 years ago
Cartoon making ironic critique of cartooning – priceless.
germanvisitor about 11 years ago
A Calvin & Hobbes cartoon strip. Sophisticated irony, philosophically challenging, enriching. … High art.
catchdrift about 11 years ago
And cute!
MickMaus about 11 years ago
Deep. ;)
alan.gurka about 11 years ago
While photographs can be either: “high” art as depicted in the composition, lighting, etc. of portraits and landscapes, or “low” art represented by mug shots and most snapshots, what is a photograph taken of a comic strip?
emjaycee about 11 years ago
Yup. Wanted to purchase a two-page original, inked but not colored, pencil lines still visible, with dialogue, sketch from a Green Archer comic book I had as a kid: $500 for two 8 × 11.5 sheets of paper. Budget did not allow for it. Still kicking myself.
sbchamp about 11 years ago
Sophistry at it’s ‘artiest’
coltish1 about 11 years ago
If only Miss Wormwood could be a fly on the wall … oh, wait.
watmiwori about 11 years ago
Say what??!!
rentier about 11 years ago
I fight a struggle with these difficult terms – highest Art!
DutchUncle about 11 years ago
I think I just heard a paradigm shifting without a clutch.
Rakkav about 11 years ago
Memo to Calvin: Anything you do that doesn’t involve snowmen – “no” art. ;)
Rakkav about 11 years ago
Words and pictures together. What a concept. :)
Not the Smartest Man On the Planet -- Maybe Close Premium Member about 11 years ago
Can you say “Lichtenstein”?
bizaker about 11 years ago
“I would suggest that it’s not the medium, but the quality of perception and expression, that determines the significance of art. But what would a cartoonist know?” -Bill Watterson, talking about this strip
Number Three about 11 years ago
Cute! Made me a bit dizzy though.
LOL xxx
Popeyesforearm about 11 years ago
tell that to Berkeley Breathed
orinoco womble about 11 years ago
Anime is animation. Animation moves. How is that “static”?
bizaker about 11 years ago
Pretty sure you completely missed the point of JackButler’s post. The idea was to use a bunch of mumbo-jumbo words the way a lot of art critics and such do. They usually make about as much sense. Correct me if I’m wrong, JackButler.
Tdog123 about 11 years ago
I’ve been reading some C&H stips lately. I’ve been realizing— Calvin gets NAKED (or some say nude) a LOT..!
tigerchik32 about 11 years ago
You have no clue what you said, do you?
orinoco womble about 11 years ago
You’ve been watching the wrong anime, that’s all. Try The Garden of Words, or even My Nieghbour Totoro.
bmonk about 11 years ago
Comments on a comic strip: Not even qualified as art, however artfully the comment was crafted.
AidanA28 about 11 years ago
What about a painting of a comic strip that has Hobbes painting a comic strip! OH THE PATTERNS!!!
Cartoonzer about 11 years ago
Calvin is smarter than me.
HighArt over 10 years ago
art is what u love, and i love all calvin and hobbes :p