Comments on: Gilbert Hernandez: No “tragic biography” http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/04/03/gilbert-hernandez-no-tragic-biography/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:23:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Anonymous http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/04/03/gilbert-hernandez-no-tragic-biography/#comment-116779 Fri, 06 Apr 2007 08:42:48 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/04/03/gilbert-hernandez-no-tragic-biography/#comment-116779 "Thats what those guys like Clowes do, a bunch of sad stories about sad people and their sad lives." That's a fair description of much of what Beto does. “Thats what those guys like Clowes do, a bunch of sad stories about sad people and their sad lives.”

That’s a fair description of much of what Beto does.

]]> by: The Dane http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/04/03/gilbert-hernandez-no-tragic-biography/#comment-114532 Wed, 04 Apr 2007 15:30:31 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/04/03/gilbert-hernandez-no-tragic-biography/#comment-114532 Hey anon, thanks. I didn't read it that way. I can see how one could, but I still don't think it conveyed the kind of arrogance that you think it does. But I'm probably too divorced from the context to know with any real certainty. Hey anon, thanks. I didn’t read it that way. I can see how one could, but I still don’t think it conveyed the kind of arrogance that you think it does. But I’m probably too divorced from the context to know with any real certainty.

]]> by: Matt http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/04/03/gilbert-hernandez-no-tragic-biography/#comment-114451 Wed, 04 Apr 2007 14:38:46 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/04/03/gilbert-hernandez-no-tragic-biography/#comment-114451 "No, because he claims that he and his brother are the only ones doing stories with imagination. That’s an insult to a lot of other good cartoonists. And it is silly to imply that Pantheon, the publisher of Daniel Clowes’s Ice Haven and Charles Burns’s Black Hole, are only interested in “tragic biography”. Beto is a fabulous artist and storyteller, but in this interview excerpt he comes off a bit arrogant. " Thats what those guys like Clowes do, a bunch of sad stories about sad people and their sad lives. “No, because he claims that he and his brother are the only ones doing stories with imagination. That’s an insult to a lot of other good cartoonists. And it is silly to imply that Pantheon, the publisher of Daniel Clowes’s Ice Haven and Charles Burns’s Black Hole, are only interested in “tragic biography”. Beto is a fabulous artist and storyteller, but in this interview excerpt he comes off a bit arrogant. ”

Thats what those guys like Clowes do, a bunch of sad stories about sad people and their sad lives.

]]> by: Anonymous http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/04/03/gilbert-hernandez-no-tragic-biography/#comment-114004 Wed, 04 Apr 2007 09:14:33 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/04/03/gilbert-hernandez-no-tragic-biography/#comment-114004 No, because he claims that he and his brother are the only ones doing stories with imagination. That's an insult to a lot of other good cartoonists. And it is silly to imply that Pantheon, the publisher of Daniel Clowes's Ice Haven and Charles Burns's Black Hole, are only interested in "tragic biography". Beto is a fabulous artist and storyteller, but in this interview excerpt he comes off a bit arrogant. No, because he claims that he and his brother are the only ones doing stories with imagination. That’s an insult to a lot of other good cartoonists. And it is silly to imply that Pantheon, the publisher of Daniel Clowes’s Ice Haven and Charles Burns’s Black Hole, are only interested in “tragic biography”. Beto is a fabulous artist and storyteller, but in this interview excerpt he comes off a bit arrogant.

]]> by: The Dane http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/04/03/gilbert-hernandez-no-tragic-biography/#comment-113564 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:20:25 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/04/03/gilbert-hernandez-no-tragic-biography/#comment-113564 Why? Because he doesn't have any desire to to tell a heartbreaking autobiography or because he's up front about his desire to not do so? Why? Because he doesn’t have any desire to to tell a heartbreaking autobiography or because he’s up front about his desire to not do so?

]]> by: Anonymous http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/04/03/gilbert-hernandez-no-tragic-biography/#comment-113538 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:26:21 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/04/03/gilbert-hernandez-no-tragic-biography/#comment-113538 What an asshole! What an asshole!

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