I was happy to read that Kazu Kibuishi really enjoyed Taiyo Matsumoto’s Tekkon Kinkreet, particularly since he says it was the interview I published that pushed him to finally pick the book up off his to-read pile. The piece he wrote on approaching Matsumoto’s work, and the book itself, is also really interesting. I’m aware that when you push a creator or a work really hard, people (particularly hardcore comics readers) tend to bristle. The number of comments in my feed reader in a given week that are some variation on living or not living up to the “hype” is kind of ridiculous… Anyway, Kazu lays his thought-processes on engaging the work bare, and like I said, it’s worth reading.
So this means that yes Jim, you have to read it again.
– Christopher
I finally read it last week and loved it as well. I bought it way back when when you were originally promoting it, so thanks for alerting me to this amazing book!
You and Tom are both riffing on “comic fans are basically complete dicks” today.
and by “today” I mean “three days ago.”