Summary
Gradac, Milton Kanif, no. 198-199, 2015
Kanif worked in an era when comics told stories, not jokes and witticisms. Creating stories meant creating a whole world. To feel it, to condense it, to transfer the experience into it, giving the imagination the power of the extended hand of consciousness... As the telling of the story drew to a close (and one day we will ask ourselves what we lost and what we gained), so did Kanif's time. A man who walked safely, bravely and sincerely believing in the path that appeared in front of him will realize that, like on the Mobius strip, he has suddenly found himself on the other side. And everything was up-down and down-up on her! ...Tethering his stories to reality, Kanif gave them a touch of transparency, the reality behind them gave them truth and strength, and only Kanif's comic characters could end up like in real life: with tributes, flowers, eternal memory and real monuments, to be retired as flesh and blood people! ...That's how we came to the elegiac sound of this story, because it only doubled the world by recording its disappearance. In various ways: the disappearance of the places where the Adventure was experienced, the disappearance of the characters who were the necessary "spice", the disappearance of character, honor, passion, the unspeakable, the unrealized, the unreached... And that is why they should be re-read and preserved as a fragment of some time and cultivate that hot dependence on them.
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