in today's news...
in today's edition of the times there is a free booklet extracted from the 9/11 commission report. It's titled 'the official cartoon' and tells the story of 9/11 in classic comic-book style. if you have a chance, pick up a copy (- if you're buying it merely for the comic, just look at it as a free 96-page report of events from around the globe coupled with 3 free su doku puzzles)
i was initally a little taken aback to find one of the most notable and shocking acts of contemporary genocide depicted in a style more commonly associated with superman.
however, in reading the first line of the cartoon's 'forward', all becomes clear:
"it was the goal of the commission to tell the story of 9/11 in a way that the american people could read and understand."
point taken.
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Mmm... Spotted this one in my copy of The Times. Wondered what style the Americans would have used to tell the September 11 story to us here in Britain. Then wondered whether the average American would know where Britain was, or whether it existed, or whether anything existed outside of America. Then pondered on whether this might have generated the question in the average American's mind: if I think nothing exists outside of America, where did those suicide pilots come from? Maybe from outer space? Now that's the stuff comics are made of.
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