Best Decade Ever poll - an update

[andrewducker]

A fascinating set of responses yesterday - as exected the computer games clustered towards modern day, while novels were spread all over the place (except for the 1930s, clearly a bad decade for authors).

I did like the observations from two people here and here that the current decade is the best ever if you're a media consumer, as not only are more works being produced but that we have access to a bigger library of previous works than anyone has ever had before, thanks to the digitisation of content.

I also managed to leave a media-type off the list, for which my apologies. Have it now:

[Poll #1801516]

Comments

[susiemutha.livejournal.com]

I'm a huge Frazetta fan...I chose 1950's only because he was heavy into the comic book world during that era...I just feel that he was there in the beginning when comics began to take hold...which is what I am guessing you were referring to..."best decade for modern comics *started*"...other than that, I'm not really too familiar with when the business itself was actually booming...just my humble opinion...

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

I'm choosing 1950s because you use the term "started." I'm a Silver Age guy and that really most heavily happened in the 60s, but all the great stuff that happened in the 60s were kicked off in the mid to late 50s when suddenly publishers couldn't crank out gore to sell and had to step back to rely on storytelling.

[andrewducker]

The "started" is attached to "The best decade", as in "The best decade (for modern comics) started in 1900".

It's the same structure as all of the questions yesterday...

[chess]

It does raise an interesting point though - unlike many of the other media listed, successful comic series seem to last throughout several decades, making it more complicated where to pick for them.

[andrewducker]

True. I picked the 90a for Vertigo, Sandman (most of), Transmetropolitan, the Invisibles, etc. but all if those crossed decade boundaries.

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

I know little about comics but I put the sixties because of R. Crumb, Gilbert Shelton, and S. Clay Wilson.

[usmu.livejournal.com]

The superhero genre is not my cup of tea, thus that eliminates much of the earlier decades. I did some checking and much of the stuff I did enjoy, Strangers in Paradise/Transmetropolitan/Barry Ween Boy Genius all came out in the nineties. And there's several critically acclaimed series I haven't read but keep hearing about like Bone and Sandman. It seem like it was a good time for the alternative and/or self publishing crowd. Vertigo and to some point Image come to mind.

[lpetrazickis.livejournal.com]

IMHO, comic art stopped being unreadably ugly in the late 90s and became pleasant to look at in the 00s.

[andrewducker]

I think "The Authority" was the first superhero comic where I noticed that the colouring was just plain gorgeous.

There had been some nice bits in other places, but the move to computer colouring was a massive step forward.

1968

[apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com]

Bijou #1
ZAP #1

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

Aha :)

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

What do you mean by modern comics?

[andrewducker]

The word is there for the same reason it was there with "modern" music, so I didn't get people asking why they couldn't vote for Mozart. Or in this case Rodolphe Töpffer.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

I picked 1930 because Tintin.