"Finder" - US Independent SF Comic

[Hmpf]

Habe gerade eine wunderbare Liebeserklärung an Finder von einer anderen Comicautorin gefunden:

http://www.vogelein.com/JanerBlog/2005/10/ (Eintrag vom 15.10.)

Zitat:

I need new, deep, thorough ideas that make me stop and really, really think. I need books that are going to challenge -- and never insult -- my memory, my intellect, my imagination. As the saying goes, good science fiction should ask you to suspend your disbelief, but never your intelligence.

Carla's work does just that, on a scope that I consider unrivaled in fiction -- fiction of any kind -- these days. If anyone can show me a series, a film, a television program that can even come close to the depth and breadth of her world, sign me up, 'cause that's some entertainment I'd love to see. I want Carla to come to my house, hook her personal firehose up to my ear, and unleash her hydrant of ideas. I want her to trepan my skull, insert a funnel, and start cramming in storylines with a Goddamn plunger. I want her to hypnotize me back into wide-eyed childlike wonder as she weaves the most obscure ancient anthropological societal quirks with high-tech futuristic gadgetry. Her mental magpie's nest, full of myriad objects bright and shiney, feels like perfect -- if disorienting -- home to me.

Auffällig übrigens, wieviele Comicautoren Finder-Fans sind. Bei meiner Recherche (für meine Magisterarbeit, die sich zumindest teilweise um Finder drehen wird) stolpere ich immer wieder über Diskussionen zwischen Comicprofis, in denen Finder und Carla Speed McNeil mit Hochachtung erwähnt werden.

Übrigens: "Voice" hat jetzt schon 121 Seiten... ;-)

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ETA: Weil ich gerade so viel davon finde, hier ein Auszug aus einer Besprechung des Sammelbandes, der letztes Jahr erschienen ist:

Finder is leading the way in the direction that comics need to go in if they're to survive -- stories that can only be done in one medium, not as a stepping-stone to movies or whatever -- McNeil is doing it better than the movies and better than the books could anyway. This is, in fact, practically the only anthropological and social-organization based storytelling going on in comics, and what's even more amazing is that it works so well.

No joke -- Finder is easily one of the most important, challenging, morally-complex, and just plain ol' fun works of art in the past decade, and you'll be sorry if you wait very long to read it.

Quelle: http://www.intergalacticmedicineshow...th&article=010

Und aus einer anderen Besprechung:

While their methods may differ, both Le Guin and McNeil understand that the essential otherness that is at the heart of their imaginings is also the raw material of drama. Le Guin's great novels (The Dispossessed, The Left Hand of Darkness) draw grand personal conflicts out of the clashes between cultures or societies; McNeil's stories are driven by more grounded concerns, but her depictions of family interactions in Sin Eater have the same elliptical vitality as her most bizarre imaginings.

Quelle: http://nearit.blogspot.com/2007/10/s...enceother.html