avi wrot:

androboy (imported) wrote: Thu Oct 24, 2002 9:01 pm ummmm ... thank you -- i think. i'm still lost about the constant references to the story being ethically better or worse than other fiction. the fact is that the story just is -- that's all. i think many of the stories in the archive would make excellent graphic novels. as an fyi -- not all american comics are crude and heavy, just as not all european or asian comics are delicately rendered works of art.

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Again I shouldn't have written anything. I regretted writing this at the moment I pressed the button "send".

It seems that anything I write about David's art is taken in bad part..

(sigh)

avi wrot:

androboy (imported) wrote: Thu Oct 24, 2002 9:01 pm ummmm ... thank you -- i think. i'm still lost about the constant references to the story being ethically better or worse than other fiction. the fact is that the story just is -- that's all. i think many of the stories in the archive would make excellent graphic novels. as an fyi -- not all american comics are crude and heavy, just as not all european or asia

gontran (imported) wrote: Sat Oct 26, 2002 12:41 pm n comics are delicately rendered works of art.

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Again I shouldn't have written anything. I regretted writing this at the moment I pressed the button "send".

It seems that anything

I write about David's art is taken in bad part..

(sigh)

don't be sorry -- clearly you are trying to say something. the problem is that somehow the message just isn't coming through clearly. you say that "The Prince Trains a Slave" isn't ethically worse than anything written by Stephen King -- nice comparison -- but i'm just unclear on what you mean that the story isn't any worse ethically. what do you mean? what is your concern about ethics? do you expect the story to have a moral component to it? if so, what kind of moral component are you seeking?

i am pleased to know that you kind of like the story -- just confused by the left-handed compliment that follows the original compliment.

the same is true for your comment that "The Prince..." would make a good comic -- but you follow that compliment with a slap at all American comics, implying that european comics are of better quality. again, a compliment followed by a slap. as i said in an earlier post, it could just be that there is a cultural communication misunderstanding going on. if that's the case, i'm sure we can find a way to better communicate.

david