(urth) Sci-Fi

[Dan'l Danehy-Oakes]

Not to mention "graphic novel" and "serial art."

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Son of Witz <Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org> wrote:
> I feel you.
> It's sorta how many cartoonists won't call themselves "cartoonists", or their output as "comics", instead calling them "comix" or "graphic novels" or "Bande Dessinée" because so many comics are peurile trash.
>
> I had this discussion with a famous cartoonist who said the problem was resolved with "Bande Dessinée", and then I showed her my comic book TROG which was made with stop motion puppets and photography, but no drawings.  Doesn't quite fit, it's a comic book, pure and simple.
>
> I wonder if anyone on this list ever bumped into my very obscure self published comic book, "TROG, In the Bacta-Tank Botch-Up".  A weird little gem of toilet reading, if I do say so myself.
>
> ~witz
>
>
> On Dec 15, 2010, at 2:37 PM, "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <danldo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> "Sci-Fi" is the sound of two crickets screwing.
>>
>> More seriously: "Sci-Fi" is a term made up by a publicity hack, in
>> analogy with the then-popular "Hi-Fi" for "high fidelity" stereo
>> equipment. It referred, and in many SF fans' minds still refers, to
>> movies about giant insects devouring Cleveland and suchlike. "Sci-fi"
>> is, in short, _bad_ science fiction.
>>
>> Okay, it isn't like "Nigger," "Wop," Chink," etc., but it's offensive.
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Son of Witz <Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Why is Sci-Fi offensive?
>>> Is this like, If you were Straight-Edge playing in a Melvins or Black Sabbath cover band and you insisted that your genre be referred to as "Doom-Metal" rather than "Stoner-Rock"?
>>>
>>> On Dec 15, 2010, at 1:50 PM, "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <danldo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Also, please refrain (note that I am asking politely) from using the term "sci-fi." Some find it very offensive
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