quote:Originally posted by Marc Campbell: Well, they could slap that "Pulitzer Prize" label on anything that Chabon did, even little hand baskets made of straw, and I'd probably give them a second look. I suspect the Pulitzers and Nobels of the world are rigged and corrupt, just like everything else, but I'm still sufficiently impressed by them.
I doin't know about them being rigged...but it did occur to me that Chabon's book may have had a lot of appeal to judges. It dealt with the Holocaust (Maus won a Pulitzer on a similar theme), was set in New York, had a nostalgic art deco 1930s flavour to it, and had a sympathetic gay character.
I'm not suggesting that all the judges are gay Jewish New Yorkers with a penchant for art deco '30s literature, but then again maybe some of them are....
I liked Chabon's book, but I'm damned if I can work out how it won a Pulitzer.
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Notwithstanding, you're making my point to Grimm that the best route into comics is comics.
Yes. Although if you read any interviews with John Ostrander or Mark Waid, you'd wonder why exactly you'd want to do that. That takes nothing away from your success so far, Marc, but it sounds like a hard industry.
