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...graphic novel aisle at the local bookstore swells with indistinguishable manga and high-end hardbacks, discerning children and the adults who care for them may wonder what happened to all the good kids comics. Though buried a bit, they can still be found. Two recent releases, the "Little Lulu" reprints series from Dark Horse comics, and Nickelodeon Magazine's all-comics special, present two strong options. Comparing the two makes for some interesting lessons in what endures and what changes in the world of kid's comics...
...characters in his prose, Manning has a rare and unique ability to capture the grotesque in a moving, thoughtful way. Many of the gruesome snapshots of reality convey a purposeful meaning, as in the emotional tribute to Boone’s deceased son, Israel, which provides a startlingly graphic yet real and passionate description of the way a person like Boone might react to seeing his young son’s buzzard-ridden carcass. Despite the inherently unfamiliar nature of the work, set roughly in the latter half of the 18th century, the elements of human nature are stunningly resonant...
...seen since its original print of only a few hundred copies back in 1931. But Manga Yonin Shosei by Yoshitaka Kiyama, translated as "The Four Immigrants Manga" (Stone Bridge Press; 152 pages; $15), arrives as nothing short of a history-making revelation: America's (and the world's) first graphic novel. In spite of the Japanese title, author and main characters, "Four Immigrants" is completely American. First published in San Francisco (locus of the underground comix explosion 35 years later), Kiyama's book focuses on that fundamentally American experience - the life of the immigrant. Told with naturalism, humor...
...boat from Japan, over the course of twenty years. Each takes a Western name, Henry, Fred, Frank and Charlie, and each has different goal. Henry, the author's surrogate, wants to study art, giving the story a personal verisimilitude that makes "Four Immigrants" not only the first graphic novel, but the first autobiographical graphic novel as well. But the two characters who quickly take the book's center are the ne'er-do-well Charlie and Frank, the budding capitalist. Continually rebuffed in their efforts to earn money, Charlie, the tall, lanky one who spouts aphorisms, and Frank, the short...
However, what is perhaps most unsettling about Netaji is the juxtaposition of graphic violence with such peculiar jokes. It is unsettling to witness the readiness with which one dewy-eyed woman after another hands over food, coins or, in the most dramatic instance, an only son at the prompting of a few words from Bose and a crescendo of woodwinds (the bandshell must be behind the camp...