![]() ![]() Ballard being ridiculed because his chosen medium is the same as Danielle Steel's. Imagine no one taking Polanski's Chinatown seriously because of Verhoeven's Robocop. ![]() Imagine a world where the worst exemplars of a medium are de facto considered the best that medium can achieve. Imagine a cultural landscape where cinema is considered nothing more than a medium to display sensationalistic visual effects: from the onrushing train of the Lumière brothers to Imax where prose fiction is seen as nothing more than a vehicle for romantic fantasies of haute société where no one can be convinced that television is good for anything but live transmissions of grand events and glorifications of consumer culture. ![]() Jimmy Corrigan, The Smartest Kid on EarthĬhris Ware: The Smartest Cartoonist on Earth Review | Jimmy Corrigan, The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware ![]()
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