The New Postmodern Comic

The New Postmodern ComicWhen most people think comic books, they think simple pictures and simple plots--big guys in leotards pounding one another while saying, "Feel the righteous sting of my unbridled fury!" After all, 80 percent of the estimated $1 billion U.S. comic book market is driven by testosterone in tights, secret identities and adolescent battles of good versus evil. Then there's the other 20 percent. In the rack that has held the pen-and-ink porn of Cherry or the aging hip...