that sacco/spiegelman comic is such a turd but i don't think we need to look backwards at their old work and decide that too isn't worth anything. for me it's simply a lesson in the narcissism that seeps in with success! be careful out there
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am I getting caught behind a paywall or is it just that one panel comic ending with the joke about Art being a self hating atheist? if so man is it unimpressive, especially for someone with the clarity and capability of Spiegelman
Speaking of comics and Jews, just this morning I was sharing the The Judgment of Magneto with a friend and I saw you'd done the art. Thanks for your contribution to a piece I really love.
To paraphrase a great cartoonist: creating a Pulitzer-winning graphic novel about your father's experience of genocide doesn't make you more insightful about a different genocide, it just makes you a Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of a graphic novel about your father's experience of genocide.
I'm willing to give the guy who did BUMF the benefit of the doubt on this one. The image in question lands like a wet fart, but BUMF excoriated neo-liberalism and Obama at a time when cartoonists with an NPRish audience such as his weren't doing such things.
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