glamourpuss #10-11 (Ongoing, Update)

My intro to my post of the first nine issues of Dave Sim's starts with, "And now for something completely different!" and ends with, "Don't say I didn't warn you." This self-published idiosyncratic series, with it’s strange brew of the history of inking and photorealism styles in comics through the twentieth century, with Dave Sim first reproducing the pages in question, then taking those relearned skills to reproduce fashion magazine images--upon which he places a self-knowing satire on the magazines and those who write and read them--continues to confuse occasional readers. Reviewers are either put off or waxing lyrical with ratings of 4 out of 5. It could very well be a high concept comic book pretending to be a collage (of sorts), or vice versa. Still, since I started it, I might as well follow it through.


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