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9/11 gets the comic book treatment
The Daily Telegraph ^ | April 19, 2006 | Catherine Elsworth

Posted on 04/19/2006 3:31:42 AM PDT by MadIvan

The report on the September 11 attacks is to be turned into a graphic novel to portray the events "in a more gripping way", according to its publisher.

The 9/11 Report, A Graphic Adaptation, aims to take the findings of the independent panel, informally known as the September 11 commission, to a broader audience.

It has cut the page count from more than 500 to 144 and employed comic book-style images to depict events aboard the four hijacked planes.

At one point, passengers on United 93, the flight that crashed in Pennsylvania, are seen fighting with knife-wielding hijackers. One passenger cries: "We've got to stop them! Two planes crashed into the World Trade Centre."

The 2004 report on the attacks on New York and Washington was one of the most successful non-fiction books of last year, selling more than one million copies.

Thomas LeBien, the book's publisher, said he hoped that the graphic version would reach new readers.

"If you're 80, or 14 years old, you look at those timelines and it becomes more immediately clear, the catastrophic nature of it all, in a more gripping way than you might get from the report itself," he told The New York Post.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911; comics; wtc
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I'm not sure about this.

Regards, Ivan


1 posted on 04/19/2006 3:31:47 AM PDT by MadIvan
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To: LadyofShalott; Tolik; mtngrl@vrwc; pax_et_bonum; Alkhin; agrace; EggsAckley; dinasour; ...

Ping!


2 posted on 04/19/2006 3:32:10 AM PDT by MadIvan (I aim to misbehave.)
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To: MadIvan
A movie is too hard to deal with , so we'll give the people some pretty colored pictures to look at. Lets make 9/11 into some surreal non event, so as not to upset the masses.

God, this nation gets more and more pussified every day.

3 posted on 04/19/2006 3:37:32 AM PDT by Kakaze (I'm now a single issue voter.....exterminate Al Quaida)
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To: MadIvan

As long as PC does not get blatant, is this bad?


4 posted on 04/19/2006 3:40:52 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: All

No Comics Here:

ON THE NET...

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1617489/posts


http://www.truthusa.com/911news.html
http://www.truthusa.com/911news2.html
http://www.truthusa.com/911.html

http://www.internet-haganah.com/jihadi
http://www.internet-haganah.com

http://www.memri.org/jihad.html
http://www.memri.org
http://www.memritv.org

http://www.jihadwatch.org


5 posted on 04/19/2006 3:44:44 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: MadIvan

The dumbing down of the collective mentality goes on...


6 posted on 04/19/2006 3:45:05 AM PDT by Canedawg (And then?)
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To: MadIvan

It doesn't look too bad, but the real test is how the "graphic novel" format deals with showing people who are about to die.


7 posted on 04/19/2006 3:51:51 AM PDT by agere_contra
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To: MadIvan

Everything gets the comicbook treatment. WWII got it but it wasn't PCed too badly.


8 posted on 04/19/2006 3:52:57 AM PDT by WorkerbeeCitizen (This line intentionally left blank)
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To: Kakaze

The 9/11 commission report WAS fiction.

Left out ABLE DANGER, left out Gorelicks wall (on behest of hillary, afraid of the data mining that would expose their chinese fundraising--Doral link).


9 posted on 04/19/2006 4:34:03 AM PDT by MonroeDNA (Look for the union label--on the bat crashing through your windshield!)
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To: MonroeDNA

You are exactly right there.


10 posted on 04/19/2006 4:40:29 AM PDT by Kakaze (I'm now a single issue voter.....exterminate Al Quaida)
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To: MadIvan

somehow, it does not seem the same as the real thing

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1616525/posts?page=1#1
Moussaoui trial exhibits and documents


11 posted on 04/19/2006 5:17:46 AM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
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To: MadIvan

somehow, it does not seem the same as the real thing

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1616525/posts?page=1#1
Moussaoui trial exhibits and documents


12 posted on 04/19/2006 5:17:48 AM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Looks great to me. "Graphic novels" (though I don't read them) are a legitimate medium, just a way to communicate a story/message (like TV, radio, movies, theater, books, magazines, newspapers, blogs, and so on).


13 posted on 04/19/2006 5:20:47 AM PDT by Theo
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To: MadIvan

Ugh...


14 posted on 04/19/2006 5:22:52 AM PDT by johnny7 (“Nah, I ain’t Jewish, I just don’t dig on swine, that’s all.”)
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To: MadIvan

The dumbing down of America continues. Many highschool students don't know which side America was on in WWII yet they are convinced that George Bush is "Hitler." Next thing you know they will come out with 9/11 video games where little creeps can play hijacker.


15 posted on 04/19/2006 5:29:41 AM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: MonroeDNA

I think you mean Loral instead of Doral.


16 posted on 04/19/2006 6:11:16 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (If you have a leaking pipe, you shut off the water valve before deciding on amnesty for the puddles.)
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To: MadIvan

This story needs to be told to everybody. If it is told through movies, comic books or on the backs of cereal boxes, it's all good, IMHO.

Different people get information in different ways. But every American needs to know this story.

Unless it is terrorist apologist bullshit, of course.


17 posted on 04/19/2006 6:57:19 AM PDT by bondjamesbond (RICE 2008)
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To: MadIvan

Some Graphic novels actually teach more than many textbooks. Depending how this is written, this may actually get some younger kids interested in this subject.


18 posted on 04/19/2006 11:32:01 AM PDT by Military family member (GO Colts!!)
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To: Military family member

Absolutely! I am more attracted to visuals, as many people in my generation are (I'm a college student). Hopefully, this will raise awareness of September 11 among people across the nation and will help to further the cause of liberty during this long struggle against Islamic Fascism.


19 posted on 04/19/2006 3:49:30 PM PDT by PPHSFL (God Bless America)
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To: MadIvan

Marvel put out a series of comic books dealing with 9-11 and the impact it had on their various characters; they also put out special artwork that paid tribute to the ploice, firefighters, etc.


20 posted on 04/19/2006 3:55:19 PM PDT by WestVirginiaRebel (Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
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