A new article
hey folks,
check out my review of the SDS graphic novel, published by the fine folks at Toward Freedom:
Off the Page and Into the Streets
Toward Freedom | “From Art Spiegelman’s Maus to Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home, the graphic form has proved a powerful narrative tool. Combining memoir and social commentary in a visually appealing package, such illustrated stories blur the boundaries of art and history, reality and fantasy. It should be no surprise, then, that social movements—those rare hybrids of reality and fantasy—are finding themselves increasingly illustrated. Walter Benjamin’s argument that radicalism politicizes art seems more relevant now than ever.” Read the full review
Reviewed:Harvey Pekar, art by Gary Dumm, edited by Paul Buhle, Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History . (New York: Hill & Wang, 2008) 224 pages, hardcover, $22.