![]() Cody Campbell is a boy with rosy cheeks (is that supposed to be theatrical makeup, or a comics shorthand for actual rosy cheeks?). Indeed, the way Larmee draws them, they look like children. It reads very precious, very self-centered. But one hopes the feedback he gets and arguments he encounters will help to both sharpen and broaden his thinking over time. Why he is willing to do this, I don't know. He's working out a personal philosophy in public. When he ventures outside of Co-Mix, as in his piece for The Comics Journal entitled "Trophy Economy," he gets shredded. ![]() His primary venue, Co-Mix, is relatively forgiving and nurturing-contentious, but contentious within a narrow range of argument. ![]() His writing feels shallow, even callow, sometimes. He seems excited to be able to put together these new things he's read with his own ideas. As a thinker, well, he comes across like an undergraduate or recent graduate who is just discovering a bunch of new criticism and theory. Blaise (as in Blaise Pascal, author of Pensées -"Thoughts"?) Larmee (as in "l'Armée"-"The army"). ![]() I know little about Blaise Larmee-he has left a trail of writings on the internet containing his thoughts about art. ![]()
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