Volume 50, Number 13 · August 14, 2003
Comics for Grown-Ups
By David Hajdu
Safe Area Gorazde
by Joe Sacco, with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens
Fantagraphics, 229 pp., $19.95 (paper)
Palestine
by Joe Sacco, with an introduction by Edward Said
Fantagraphics, 285 pp., $24.95 (paper)
Ghost World
by Daniel Clowes
Fantagraphics, 80 pp., $9.95 (paper)
Comic books, the rock 'n' roll of literature, have always been a rigorously disreputable form of junk art for adolescents of body or mind. Hyper-energetic, crude, sexually regressive, and politically simplistic, comics—like rock (and, in recent years, hip-hop)—give fluent voice to their audience's basest and most cynical impulses. These are their virtues, arguably, as outlets for emotional release and as social counteragents.
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