tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9987513.post4683081510395588671..comments2024-03-17T11:05:22.464+00:00Comments on The Life And Opinions of Andrew Rilstone: Episode IVUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9987513.post-63097517294348268142022-11-13T11:45:57.134+00:002022-11-13T11:45:57.134+00:00”This essay is intended for people who do not inte...<i>”This essay is intended for people who do not intend to read The Strange Death of Alex Raymond, but are interested in what it contains and how it strikes me”</i><br /><br />That’s me.<br /><br /><i>”Sim says that Alex Raymond, Hal Foster (Prince Valiant) and Milton Caniff (Terry and the Pirates) are the great trinity of photo-realistic newspaper strip artists.”</i><br /><br />For fairly obvious reasons, I’m not going to get into the strangest thing Sim says here. But this must be the strangest thing for Dave Sim to say! I don’t think Caniff belongs with those other two at all. If not as cartoony as, say, Eisner he’s much further over that side of the dial. I wonder if Sim wanted to equate ‘successful newspaper strip artist’ with ‘photo-realist style’ for some reason.Gavin Burrowshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16347163260510316959noreply@blogger.com