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Etgar Keret is an unlikely suspect for cultural icon...
Etgar Keret is an unlikely suspect for cultural icon...
Like the Romans before it, the empire of the Golden Arches has finally succumbed to the indomitable spirit of Asterix the Gaul. As of Wednesday, Ronald McDonald has been retired as the icon of McDonald's France, replaced by the Gallic nationalist comic-book hero. Ironies abound, of course, since Asterix had been something of an anti-Mcdonald's icon, appropriated by anti-globalization protestors such as Mac-basher Jose Bove to symbolize French resistance to foreign encroachment. Resentment of the perceived "McDonaldization" of their culture runs high in France - the influential daily Le Monde, for example, warns that Mcdonald...
...rare to see comix used this way. Glenn Dakin's early Abe stories ingeniously fold conventional comicbook narrative, superheroes and sci-fi, into works of whimsy and reflection. His subversive use of a superman icon pre-dates Chris Ware's similar usage (though without the bitter irony) by more than a decade. Then by the early nineties he uses comix in wildly experimental ways, mixing poetry, philosophy, fiction and non-fiction into a totally idiosyncratic vision. "Abe: Wrong for All the Right Reasons," finally allows Americans to see what they've been missing...
...After the top three, a huge pack of nominees vied for attention. Most prominent were people recognized collectively: the citizens and the city of New York ("I know that it isn't a person - it's a persona" ... "Often touted as the icon of the impersonal, New York showed the world what it truly means to be human"); its rescue workers, police and firemen (" No foe could ever hope to vanquish a nation capable of producing men and women such as these"); the victims of the attack ("They showed us the American spirit even as they died: bravery, love...