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...comic book genre became an unlikely vehicle for civic protest and consolidation of memory. "The hour of immigrant assimilation gave way to the fight for minorities and civil rights," explains Pasamonik. Harvey Kurtzman used the medium to tackle racial segregation, the Cold War and McCarthyism in his satirical MAD magazine. In 1955, when popular awareness of the Holocaust was scant, Bernard Krigstein and Al Feldstein caused a shock by revisiting the concentration camps with the seminal graphic story Master Race. During the '60s and '70s the genre opened up to the banal and biographical, with Pekar and Crumb's darkly...
...around like mad people wielding razor blades. But it is not the best way to resolve the problem...
...often explores homosexual themes in his Matisse-influenced paintings. Earlier this year, an installation in which Tan constructed a 2-m-high diaper out of police uniforms was promptly shut down. The threat of official interference means that many Hanoi galleries - there are dozens in the art-mad town - prefer to trade in naive village scenes that feel almost deliberately apolitical...
...around like mad people wielding razor blades. But it is not the best way to resolve the problem.' VLADIMIR PUTIN, President of Russia, speaking out against U.S. sanctions on Iran over the country's nuclear program
...support Darfur (“Save Darfur”), Obama (“BaRock My World”), and awareness about AIDS (the newly-popular “HIV-Positive” tees). But sometimes, casual campaigning can underplay the seriousness of an issue. “I get mad when I see people wearing shirts of Mao Zedong,” says Justine S. Chow ’10, another student who attended the T-shirt making event. “They don’t know what he did. He tore my family apart.” Nonetheless...