The Children of Light

Reviews Hagai Palevsky | September 1, 2026 “I believe that the drawing [in comics], while its appeal is primitive, is extremely sophisticated; and the stories, on the other hand, while they are written by reasonably sophisticated people, are extremely banal and primitive.” — Gil Kane “[P]eople like Alex Toth and Gil Kane, the whole pantheon of superior artists — were cranking work out on such an industrial schedule, that they couldn’t really tailor their work to their own personal vision or personal expression so much as they simply had to draw as well and as quickly as they could; and since they were told what to draw and what they were told to draw was basically adolescent in nature, their styles either conformed to that adolescent context or never coalesced with it. And I think that has had a deleterious effect on them as cartoonists and on the art form.” — Gary Groth How difficult it is, reader, to imagine something outside of yourself; how difficult it is to even try. It’s something I think about from time to time, the notion that you are just the sum of your native environment, total and inescapable. Fortunately, we have Jean Pleyers to reckon with this issue for us. The Belg...