Brilliant & Lowbrow
Monday, July 24th, 2006
I guess, in some senses, we’ve made it: New York Magazine calls SMITH’s webcomic Shooting War “brilliant & lowbrow” in its always clever Approval Matrix. While there’s a strong case to be made that our online graphic novel is actually “brilliant & highbrow” (thus landing in the ever-elusive top right hand corner with Chip Kidd and our personal hero, Kenny Shopsin), the Shooting War crew feels quite at home in the bottom right corner, kicking back with a beer and a burger at the Shake Shack (not pictured … but sooooo good) before heading home to catch a couple innings of the Mets and an episode of Weeds. Click on the image below to find us, or the link above.
Seriously, do we even want Shooting War in the same “highbrow” category as that super-gross ass in blue shorts they’ve got in the highbrow category? I mean, couldn’t they have at least chosen a picture that didn’t feature an obvious wedgie?
As Bill and Ted would say, what a heinie-ous thing to run in a national magazine.
And what, pray tell, was the tipping point that led them to put the silver shorts on the left and the blue on the right? A mere absence of obvious butt cleavage elevates the blue to highbrow?