Deconstructing Comics from Complete History to Single Panel
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There are many history books detailing the comic strip or comic book industry.
A lesser amount of books are devoted to dissecting one particular series, or even a single comic book issue.
Some have gone so far as to expand an essay deconstructing a three panel comic strip into 276 page book.
Now they are down to a single panel, specifically That One Matt Bors Comic.
“An entire book about a single panel of a comic strip? Have you lost your minds?” No—at least, not yet. That One Matt Bors Comic looks at a panel that became a meme, and launched 1,000 remixes. A phrase that entered popular culture. A shorthand that is so prevalent, people just write “it’s like that one Matt Bors comic” to encompass a world of meaning. That’s this book.
Glenn Fleishman (editor and publisher) has joined with Matt Bors (the cartoonist and collaborator) to collect a who’s who of alternative cartoonists and reporters (comics and otherwise) to discuss the panel that went viral.
A book about how “we should improve society somewhat” conquered the discourse
(To be honest the book also discusses the entire comic strip and Matt Bors The Nib comic bookazine.)
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