Talk:Blackmark

message: perhaps some sort of plot summary should be added  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.225.171.137 (talk) 20:32, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  I agree. The entry as is tells nearly nothing about the story itself. Omega2064 (talk) 19:23, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Blackmark

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message: Even just a few minutes of Googling establishes that Blackmark is one of the most notable and important precursors of the graphic novel. It's been written about in the mainstream press, meriting mention in Gil Kane's New York Times obit; in the comics speciality press; and, especially, the scholarly press.
The late historian Don Markstein in  Don Markstein's Toonopedia notes that while not the first graphic novel, "Blackmark still represented a departure for the American book industry. No previous work of comics had been published in standard paperback form, without having been printed first as magazine cartoons or a syndicated comic strip", and calls it "the first of its kind". The Warren Companion, edited by Jon B. Cooke and David Roach, calls it "groundbreaking." 
Scholar and cartoonist Robert C. Harvey in The Art of the Comic Book (University Press of Mississippi, 1996) devotes a portion to discussing two landmark Kane proto-graphic novels, Blackmark and His Name Is … Savage. Another scholarly work, Paul Williams and James Lyons' The Rise of the American Comics Artist: Creators and Contexts (University Press of Mississippi, 2010), cites it as an important example of how "creators and publishers experimented with content and how stories were delivered to the reading public."  French scholar Jean-Paul Gabilliet in Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of American Comic Books (University Press of Mississippi, 2009) talks about both Savage and Blackmark as "partial liberation … from the creative and economic constraints that 
[comics creators] had always endured and coincided chronologically with the radical disruptions represented by much younger creators who opted to express themselves outside of any economic or ideological affiliations with the existing tradition in the background." Arie Kaplan's 
Masters of the Comic Book Universe Revealed! (Chicago Review Press, 2006) cites it among three of most significant "graphic novel prototypes".
By any objective measure, Blackmark is a historically significant, groundbreaking work. Diego, quite reasonably, asked for context. I hope I've provided that. --Tenebrae (talk) 18:30, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Response to Diego re: historical significance

message: See discussion at User talk:Bosh506. --Tenebrae (talk) 17:49, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
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message: Note that there is also a 2018 film named Blackmark (see Blackmark @ IMDB) so a disambig (different from Black mark) might be useful at some point in time --katpatuka (talk) 07:28, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blackmark (2018 film)