![]() ![]() Moves backwards and forwards – evenly, balanced, like Asterios himself wants to ![]() Ramming his axe-shaped head into the places where the world doesn’t fit hisĬategories, willing it into the forms he’s decided are right for it. And heĬomes up against the Dionysian side of the world again and again, symbolically Serious, linear, dogmatic, didactic, Apollonian, a maker of dichotomies. Asterios is a renowned teaching architect: Is the story of comics themselves, as it dramatizes the interplay of theĮlements that come together to make up comics. We see Asterios in appropriately classicalįorm: both before and after his downfall, as if he’s both at once. ![]() Of how he finally, much too late in his life, learns how not to be quite so Novel that bears his name is – and this is only one of the things it is, but we’ll start there – the story If one thinks being a bastard is a bad thing.Īsterios Polyp, for example, is a bastard, and the graphic Of course comics then areĬalled bastards, which is both a slander and absolute truth. Strengths of both parents, without the fussiness and decadent weaknessĬharacteristic of arts that only breed incestuously. That’s noīad thing, despite what the mandarins might say – mongrels typically have the Scraps of two prior art-forms in the great kennel of popular culture. Comics are an essentially mongrel art, bred out of the ![]()
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