tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post2634169144711476723..comments2024-03-27T05:22:27.604-05:00Comments on Eddie Campbell: The Villains in my Home Town- part 14.Eddie Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02492020671613766729noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-82072185278875157802007-06-30T13:46:00.000-05:002007-06-30T13:46:00.000-05:00Hi, I was just googling when I ran into this post....Hi, I was just googling when I ran into this post. <BR/><BR/>India is just in the discovery phase of these genres, but things here are more difficult than in the West. There are no funds available, nor are the publishers willing. Then there's undue praise when it's not worth it, as for Sarnath Banerjee.<BR/> <BR/>If you are interested, here's the link to a detailed review, a little caustic perhaps, of the indian graphic novel scenario.<BR/><BR/>http://buroangla.blogspot.com/2007/05/plight-of-indian-graphic-novel.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-38870269889835356502007-05-14T14:07:00.000-05:002007-05-14T14:07:00.000-05:00I'll agree that the Brits are more adept at a cert...I'll agree that the Brits are more adept at a certain kind of comedy. I've fallen in love with shows like the Office, Red Dwarf and Spaced over the years and I love it. But my family has always had a sardonic, dry sense of humor, so I identify with Brit humor more readily than the more slapsticky American style. Certainly more than folks like Sandler and Myers have produced over the years. <BR/><BR/>What gets me is that Sandler, Myers and their ilk are not the new American humor. They're at least over ten years old at this point. Sandler's doing pointless romantic crap and Myers is lost in children's voice-over land.<BR/><BR/>People like Zach Galifinakis, David Cross, Brian Poesehn, Steve Carell, and Patton Oswalt are the new American comedy. Look at Judd Apatow's 40 Year Old Virgin, that's the new style people are looking for in America. It's more suburban, but it has a more positive value base, is usefull and entertaining. Keeping in mind that the movie has been described by the actors as having been 85% ad-libbed, it's certainly a positive trend as far as American Comedy goes.<BR/><BR/>But then, the "red-neck" guard spitting their tabbacco all over Comedy Central, Larry the Cable Guy, Bill Engval, Jeff Foxworthy etc. always leave a bad taste in my mouth.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13917731858646770253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-1366507602947703952007-05-13T23:15:00.000-05:002007-05-13T23:15:00.000-05:00I don't know that it proves Brits are more adept a...I don't know that it proves Brits are more adept at comedy. I think it proves they don't exists in the same crushing system that demands every movie be like last year's success.Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10317822803270306791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-76914330026793379762007-05-13T08:01:00.000-05:002007-05-13T08:01:00.000-05:00That embezzler's lucky he wasn't tried and convict...That embezzler's lucky he wasn't tried and convicted in China. My neice (a former Olympian from China) informs me that such a guilty verdict in China would result in public execution. White collar crime is often punishable by death.<BR/><BR/>Mingus: so many of those old jazz artists were screwed out of their music for pennies.James Robert Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17281049641681225389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-27112239982782162642007-05-13T07:37:00.000-05:002007-05-13T07:37:00.000-05:00Thanks Eddie, you've reminded me that I haven't im...Thanks Eddie, you've reminded me that I haven't imported my few Mingus CDs into iTunes yet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com