Joe Simon Profile In NYT
Author: AF Duncan
April 17th, 2008
Some advance hype for this weekend’s New York Comic Con: a nice profile of 95YO Joe Simon in the New York Times, who’s been killing it on comic book elder statesmen lately. Hope the trend continues.
“Living legend” is how Joe Simon is categorized on the list of special guests appearing at the New York Comic Con at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center this weekend. Mr. Simon, 94, has a different take on it. “I call it the old-geezer table,” he said during a recent interview at his Midtown Manhattan apartment.
Surprising huge bonus points for the amazing painting Simon is holding in the accompanying photo that depicts a bunch of superheroes in a Last Supper pose eating junk food. What an incredible, succinct metaphor for comic books in American culture. It is absolutely a medium caught in an awkward middle-ground between meaningful art and disposable garbage. I mean, that’s it right there.
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2 Responses to “Joe Simon Profile In NYT”
April 17th, 2008 at 11:23 am
“It is absolutely a medium caught in an awkward middle-ground between meaningful art and disposable garbage.”
I’m not arguing that this isn’t true, but can’t it be said of every form of popular art? Music, movies, TV, books — they’ve all had and have their garbage and their masterpieces.
April 17th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
They have, but how comic books are perceived in the American consciousness is different from those other media.