![]() ![]() Westvind’s comics are visceral, kinesthetic, and somatic. Lale Westvind is the best comics artist of the decade. Too many little brilliant zines are not collected - especially ones less focused on narrative and characters - too many talented artists leave comics too early, and too many great works are not written about in comics history. This, in addition to the nature of the best of the “decade” list, does little for the brilliant zines that are usually not on the radar of comics critics who tend to care more about “graphic novels”. Besides, I decided to choose artists over works, to make list-making easy. Or convert those words and characters into units of time, watching a film never on your list… Against Lists, Elena Gorfinkel Read as many words about a woman filmmaker or filmmaker from the global south. If you must count, write as many words about any film not on your list. They consolidate and reaffirm the hidebound tastes of the already heard… ![]() Lists pretend to make a claim about the present and the past, but are anti-historical, obsessed with their own moment, with the narrow horizon and tyranny of contemporaneity. ![]() Lists aggregate the already known and consolidate power… ![]()
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