Whil Weaton shares an important moment in a parent’s life as he talks to his son:
“I think you’re mature enough to have full access to my comic and graphic novel library.”
And thus is the comics baton passed to a new generation. Mind you, he was a little more wary of letting him near The Collection. I wonder how many of us over the years have read a comic or graphic novel or book which we would otherwise have passed by because a family member or friend told us how much they loved it and let us borrow it? I first read Love & Rockets browsing through a flat-mate’s collection in my student days (he was happily reading my Sandman issues) and I recall novelist and comics writer Richard Morgan saying his family rarely touched comics, with his first serious exposure coming when a fellow student loaned him 2000 AD to read.
Wed, Nov 22, 2006
Comics and cartoons, General