![]() After a century in which the world of Art colonized, appropriated, co-opted and exploited the natural resources of the world of Comics in a manner that has its roots in "the divine right of kings", Why Art? turns the tables and, taking a distinctly New World (aka American) stance, incorporates Art as a key linguistic unit within an egalitarian and democratic language system constituted by Comics*. The book's signal achievement is to present an examination of Art from the perspective of Comics. It is a highly personal and idiosyncratic approach, savvy yet bittersweet, and one that takes a surprising – and intriguing – twist that longtime comics readers will recognize as a thematic recapitulation of the late-'50s/early-'60s work of Steve Ditko(!). Why Art? (Fourth Edition) does not present an expository answer to the question its title poses, but it does, like its forerunner, embody a through-composed approach to its subject that could be construed to do so. In her Fantagraphics follow-up to How to Be Happy, Davis opts for a similarly archly refractive title. ![]()
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