MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
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While Art Spiegelman became the persona he'd resisted:
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2008/10/making-comics-after-mau...
Fascinating read how comic book heroes grew up mainly as creation of mainly underclass Jews as some kind of New York groundswell of response to rising fascism:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/17/art-spiegelman-golden-age-...
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 11/26/2019 - 2:12am
How Spiderman offered an escape into a non-tribal world:
But right away I think: beware the unifying romantic hero dictator syndrome as a solution? Yugoslavia; Iraq, etc....? George Bush can tell ya: democracy = hard work!
by artappraiser on Tue, 11/26/2019 - 12:12pm
Manga, the new top tool for lobbying?
What has happened to me': manga depicting Uighur torture hits 2.5m views
Japanese artist’s story of Xinjiang woman’s experience highlights plight of Muslim minority in China
@ TheGuardian.com, Nov. 26
by artappraiser on Tue, 11/26/2019 - 1:49pm