January 11, 2008

The Revolution Will Be Graphic

By PAUL BUHLE

SDS's speech ballooned into action. In a new history, its action balloons into speech.

History comics seem to have been a long time in coming, but readers of graphic novels have probably been expecting them for years. Art Spiegelman's Maus, drawn from the oral history of his father, a Holocaust survivor, was arguably the work that lifted respect for the craft toward its current level. Contemporary historical accounts of the Middle East and the Balkans by the cartoonist and journalist

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