“Perfect is the enemy a good.” Are you familiar with that expression? I am (obviously) and I aspire to live by it, but rarely do. In a way, I am like Claudius in Hamlet:
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below.
Words without thoughts rarely to heaven go.
Thus it is that, if I spot an error in a drawing, I am very likely to erase that part of the drawing, or even discard it and start again. For example, if I draw a speech bubble that turns out to be too small for the amount of text I want to put in it, out comes the eraser.
Images: © 2025 The Estate of Joe Brainard.
But in C Comics, not only is the mistake left uncorrected, quite often it is adorned with an arrow actually pointing it out! This strikes me as a very psychologically healthy approach. As Kartalopoulos writes, in this way the error becomes part6 of the aesthetic.
I have enjoyed reading the C Comics, especially the mock advertisements and the parodies of famous comic book characters like Nancy, Archie and Veronica.
An essay by Bill Kartalopoulos gives us the history of the C comics, dating from the early 60s.
The C comics content is often weird, but in a good way!