In a recent lecture, Rifas discussed one of the most famous graphic novels, Art Spiegelman's "Maus," which tells the story of the Holocaust with Jews depicted as mice and Germans as cats. He noted the number of Jews killed each day during World War II and how that compared with the daily casualties from the Iraq war and the recent killings at Virginia Tech.
It would be interesting to know how the numbers were compared and what numbers were used. It would also be interesting to know who was deemed responsible for the number of casualties in Iraq. It is already clear who was responsible for the casualties in Europe during WWII and for the casualties at Virginia Tech. Is someone being compared to Hitler and Cho? I thought this was a course on comics. Sounds like a bad joke to me.
1 posted on
04/26/2007 1:20:33 PM PDT by
Sopater
To: Sopater
Maus is an absolutely stunning piece of work and completely worthy of study on a collegiate level. It ought to be required reading, IMHO.
To: Sopater
"What makes comics unique is their combination of drawings and writings." Yeah, what an innovative, cutting edge concept...
To: Sopater
The comparison with Mao would be more appropriate.
4 posted on
04/26/2007 1:26:17 PM PDT by
kinoxi
To: Sopater
Hope he's using Scott "Zot" McCloud's Understanding Comics as a textbook. No finer guide to the inner workings of the artform anywhere, and it's all done in comic panels!
5 posted on
04/26/2007 1:30:01 PM PDT by
GodBlessRonaldReagan
(Big dog, big dog, bow-wow-wow! We'll crush crime, now, now, now!)
To: Sopater
There have been classes on The Beatles, jazz, etc for years. Comics are a much more legitimate topic than “afro american studies” “feminist studies”, etc. They are a form of art.
Worst. Death. Ever. -Comic Book Guy
To: Sopater
It seems like most 4-year colleges are requiring all students to take some sort of art class nowadays.
I’d rather take something like this, then the course in Art History I did take.
To: Sopater
The leftist intelligentsia have their students study America as if it were criminally reprehensible... or more accurately, a reprehensible criminal who has not yet been brought to justice.
12 posted on
04/26/2007 1:40:19 PM PDT by
johnny7
("Issue in Doubt." -Col. David Monroe Shoup, USMC 1943)
To: Skywalk
comic book, old-foggies-will-always-have-problems-with-them, ping.
how u doing, pumpkin?
26 posted on
04/26/2007 2:31:22 PM PDT by
radiohead
(They call me DOCTOR radiohead.)
To: Sopater
Now I know why American jobs are going to people who were educated in other countries.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson