Comics - trash or treasure

comis were seen during my childhood as trash - not serious reading or art atall. Now in the lbiraries where I wor and ive, "graphic novels" are allhe buzz and comics are being taken seriously again. Amazon published this interview with Doublas Wolk who has written a book on reading comics. Talking Reading Comics: An Interview with Douglas Wolk

... His second book, Reading Comics, was just released, and it's doubly refreshing. It does none of the bashful throat-clearing that mainstream writing about comics often uses to justify its interest in what was long considered a throwaway kids' medium. And it manages to love and explain the two often warring (or mutually ignorant) sides of today's comics, the ever-popular superhero tradition and the art comics that have gained so much highbrow attention lately, making the case for each to the readers of both. It's an appealingly idiosyncratic tour of many of his favorite artists that doesn't hesitate to criticize some of the most revered names in the business (like Chris Ware and Will Eisner) or investigate some of its most forgotten genre byways with serious enthusiasm. We asked Wolk a few questions about the book and his work.

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