Marguerite Van Cook « The Hooded Utilitarian

Surface Pleasures

Taragana Pyjarama’s electronica and the seduction of the postmodern sublime.

The Postmodern Sublime–a Different Kind of Crazy.

From the modern to the post-postmodern.

February 15, 2012
By James Romberger
Article
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Post to Incestuous Sheets

A biased review of The Rub, a Hamlet acceleration in Brooklyn; and a preemptive strike on Before Watchmen.

More is Never Enough, or Kant’s Numerical Sublime

The disturbing sublimity of drawing 10,000 communists.

$The Eyes Have It: The Sublime & the Precognitive Graze.$

September 16, 2011
By Marguerite Van Cook
Article, Columns
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The Eyes Have It: The Sublime & the Precognitive Graze.

For readers there is an agreement to relinquish part of our civilized nature when we agree to look at a comic.

Sublime Capital, Kirby, Lee, the Worth and the Worthy

Even if hypothetically Lee originated characters, I would argue that where there is no previous model then the artist creates the image and reifies a concept. If there is no model to work from, then one must create the original figure, which henceforth will become that model.