Word: lit
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...Gorky delivered a speech declaring "Socialist Realism" to be the only morally acceptable art form, Stalin imposed it as aesthetic law. No matter that it wasn't realism at all - but instead a dreamy digestible theater of the proletarian paradise to come. For the next 30 years, oversized, brightly lit scenes of handsome and happy workers and their Kremlin leaders toiling for the communist cause went up on every billboard, cinema screen and gallery wall until, as Groys puts it, "they completely altered and reorganized the visual space of an entire society." But, as the exhibition attests, artistic talent could...
...While it's directed at kids, "Little Lit" volume three (RAW Junior; 48 pp.; $19.95) will charm adults by making them feel like kids again. Its large dimensions make yours hands look tiny in comparison. Inside is a delightfully colorful mix of short new comics along with puzzles like Barbara McLintock's lovely find-the-differences page. Even the stiffest octogenarian could not resist perusing the bear's picnic for missing apples and extra toes. The comics are by an interdisciplinary group of writers and artists, all of whose stories begin with the line "It was a dark and silly...
While "Little Lit" has been published by an imprint of HarperCollins, other traditional trade publishers are also exploring the children's comix genre. Simon and Schuster has just released two volumes of Frenchman Joann Sfar's wonderful "Little Vampire" series: "Little Vampire Goes to School" and "Little Vampire Does Kung Fu!" (30 pp.; $12.95 each.) Marketed to readers 10 and up, the first book begins when Little Vampire, feeling lonely at the haunted mansion with nothing but adult monsters and ghosts around, decides he wants to go to school. He goes at night, but sadly discovers no one is there...
...Both the "Little Lit" and "Little Vampire" series make for smart introductions to reading comics. While "Little Lit" will appeal to early readers, the wit of "Little Vampire" will delight their slightly older siblings. Citing the Carl Bark's Donald Duck comics from the 1940s and 50s as "among the best stories for kids on paper," Spiegelman says Americans have lacked for comics you can re-read the way kids like to do. Hopefully these two series will provide the beginning a greater selection of kid's comics. "Kids, as we know, are ambi-tasterous," Spiegelman says. "They'll like...
...Little Lit" and "Little Vampire" can be found at regular bookstores with smart children's sections...