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...legal age of marriage for girls lowered to nine?is almost too full of trauma to be confined to a prose narrative. Satrapi powerfully captures the Ayatollahs' tyranny by rendering it in the spare, black- and-white images of a graphic novel, much as Art Spiegelman did in Maus, his comic-strip version of the Holocaust...
...Hundred Demons deserves a place on the shelf with serious graphic novels like Art Spiegelman's Maus, but oddly enough, Barry is a fan of the most cozily, comfortably predictable comic strip of them all, Family Circus. "It's my absolute favorite comic in the world!" she gushes. "All the people I know who grew up in difficult situations love it. For me it's like looking through a circle to a world where everything is good." The world of One Hundred Demons may not be good, but it's far closer to the real...
...Review and the New Republic; the opera made from his novel Valis; the issuing of old novels (some published for the first time) in spiffy editions; a generation of readers avid for his teeming, dystopic visions. "What Franz Kafka was to the first half of the 20th century," wrote Maus author Art Spiegelman, "Philip K. Dick is to the second half...
...David B.'s "Epileptic" rivals Art Spiegelman's "Maus," for it's tour de force of comix-making. Though "Epileptic" lacks the heightened drama of the holocaust, these two-volume works have many noticeable parallels. Both use the plight of a stricken family member to fuel a story that goes back and forth in time, examining the repercussions on the author. Both have a deeply-informed sense of personal history within the context of world events and culture, making sense of the relationship between the two. Lastly, both use the medium of comics to further the meaning of the work...
...SPIEGELMAN'S "MAUS," DEPICTING HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS, WILL GO ON TO WIN A PULITZER. FRANK MILLER'S "THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS" AND ALAN MOORE'S "THE WATCHMEN" REDEFINE SUPERHEROES. ALL THREE RECEIVE MAINSTREAM ATTENTION, AND COMICS BEGIN TO ENJOY SOME RESPECTABILITY...