Another reason I shouldn't poke around on the John Byrne board

In a thread titled Q for JB about TCJ’s "Kirby Petition" we get a lot of really silly conversation, typical John Byrne revisionist history, but the gem for me is:

...what has TCJ done? (meaning The Comics Journal)

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Given a whole bunch of pseudo-intellectual "fans"
the model for their not-so-original thinking.

And here's a quick list of the things I have seen TCJ (and Fantagrpahics, the company that publishes it) do, and mind you, I'm not a fan of the magazine or its approach:

-Classic comic strip reprints, including Krazy Kat, Popeye, Prince Valiant and Peanuts

-Comics such as Love and Rockets, Ghost World, The Complete Crumb and others

-Comic criticism that attempts to bring the kind attention that literary criticism has

-The fight to get Jack Kirby his art back (which is the focus of this thread), which eventually got Marvel to give him SOME of his art back, and did not require him to sign the specialized release that Marvel's lawyers cooked up only for Kirby

-Real journalism in comics (although this has faded over the last decade or so) including stories on comics distribution, business practices and the like

And that's just off the top of my head. The artists that Fantagraphics has discovered and championed are pretty legendary in the field of Indy comics and many of them have gone on to mainstream (outside comics) success. By the way, as a bonus, Byrne is able to slander the creators of Superman and Neal Adams as an aside. You have to love his message board just for the sheer Gonzo of it. It's a car wreck I can't help but gawk at....Ghods help me.