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25 Most Influential Moments in the Past 25 Years
April 5, 2008 @ 04:39 PM
- by Brian Cronin
- in General
- 4 Comments
Tim Leong just re-posted a piece I wrote for the Comic Foundry online site awhile back (it was more than a year ago, but less than two – I honestly don’t recall when it was specifically past that), and I figured you folks might be interested in reading it. Check it out here.
4 Comments
Brian Cronin
April 5, 2008 at 4:59 pm
After re-reading the piece, it reminded me that I should note that Chris Allen and I went back and forth over a number of these picks, so he deserves credit (or, if you prefer, blame), as well.
Randy
April 5, 2008 at 8:41 pm
It was a really good article/list, brian. I thought it was really thought out.
Chris Tolworthy
April 6, 2008 at 1:09 am
Excellent article. I’d like to add a British perepctive to item 12, the British Invasion. This is all down to 2000AD, which began publishing writers and artists’ names in 1977. The reason they never did so before is they knew exactly what would happen. Whenever they got a writer or artist that fans liked, Marvel or DC would notice, offer them double the money and they’d be gone. Practically all the big names you identified started on 2000AD and were lost in this way. Or gained, depending which side of the Atlantic you live on!
Dyfrig Jones
April 6, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Chris is right to point to the influence of 2000AD. I’m British, and grew up mainly reading DC and Marvel books. 2000AD was the only “real” comic – i.e. not the Dandy or the Beano – I knew of that didn’t come from either of the big two. Today, not being an indie fanboy, I’d struggle to name another UK book (apart from Viz). When you’re talking about superheros, it’s fair to describe 2000AD as the only mainstream British comic of the past 20 years.