| | Joplin Independent:Suspended Animation - 12/3/04 |
 | | Bob Callahan, an editor of various titles including the one on which he comments, claims The New Smithsonian Book of Comic-Book Stories: From Crumb to Clowes (NSBCBS) is the "definitive collection" of the "most celebrated comic book artists of our time". |
 | | In fairness to Bob, if you asked a hundred comics fans to list the best work in the field since the 1960s, you'd get 100 different lists. |
 | | In general, they are poorly written and drawn, and their central theme of excess (drugs and sex) and nihilism disgusts me. |
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