6 convincing comics on war
Prepare for war! Rogue Trooper is the last of the genetically designed “GIS”, tracking down the poisoned world and torn apart by the war of the earth – his dead comrades located in his rifle, his helmet and his backpack. Their mission: to track down the trait that betrayed them! Before the new film written and directed by Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code), this new series of four volumes presents the famous series of science fiction war of the legendary 2000 announcement in the new editions, with the work of Gerry Finley-Day, Dave Gibbons (Watchmen), Alan Moore (Watchmen) and Blueberry Artists.
As a mode of narration, comics are particularly suitable for representing war. A singular character in the center of a panel is a powerful image that many comic artists have used. They can also use panels on the same wavelength to contrast two images: one of peace, one of war. The comic book purse, Hilary falls, wrote a book on the power of comics as a medium to engage in history, in particular disasters (Disaster drawn: visual witness, comics and documentary form). A Norwegian scientist findFollowing the events of the Arab Spring, the creation of comics had increased as a form of art resistance to Cairo.
One of the most famous examples of the fall book is Art Spiegelman’s Mauswho was taken in the books of books a few years ago. He was deemed inappropriate for children. There is an inherent tension in the classic perception of comics as something For Children and the use of comics to act as historical recordings of atrocities. The collection of frames such as drawn by the artist captures with precision the functioning of memory: discreet images and moments, sewn together to form a story. Many graphic memories on war are also from the point of view of children: a small child who looks at the large confusing world that collapses around them is a captivating story.
My selection of memories, history and fiction focuses more on the wars of the real world, but it is not because I do not like science fiction or fantasy wars – comics will always serve a wide and imaginative variety of genres!
Graphic memories
Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
It is very likely that you have already read PersepoliaBut if you didn’t do it, it’s time. The two -part memories of Satrapi divide her experience in Tehran when she was a child and her time abroad before returning. Growing up, she and her family treated the massive changes that surround them brought by the Islamic Revolution in Iran. As a teenager, she moves to Vienna alone and has to face the opinions of the rest of the world on her homeland.
I saw it: the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, a true story of a survivor by Keiji Nakazawa
At six, Keiji Nakazawa saw the atomic bomb falling on Hiroshima and had to face the immediate and terrifying benefits. The immediacy of the comic panels communicates the absolute devastation inflicted on Hiroshima by the bomb. It is not only that the city was destroyed: eyes of a child, all that he has ever known was to burn around him.
The best we can do By thu Bui
Although she was born during the Vietnam War, Thi Bui’s family escaped in the 1970s when she was young. She shares the difficulty of how her family worked to start again in America, while carrying the weight of the trauma inflicted on them by the war. When it starts to raise children herself, she again feels her old wounds and understands more deep how difficult it was for her parents to find a new home with young children.
A game for swallows: die, leave, come back by Zeina Abirached, translated by Edward Gauvin
The civil war raging outside the doors of their house in Beirut, Zeina and her family try to make every day as normal as possible given the conditions. One day, Zeina’s parents do not go home, so the other families in their apartments are working to help Zeina and her brothers and sisters stay safe inside.
Comic book report
Folder notes in Gaza By Joe Sacco
There has not been really time in the past 70 years when Gaza was not under a warpower in wartime. After his seminal work Palestine was released in the mid -90s, Sacco continued to visit the region. For this book, he settled in Rafah and Khan Younis and studied the history of the massacre against the residents of Rafah in 1956 by Israeli soldiers. As always, Sacco is invested in humans who find themselves as collateral damage in these conflicts.
Fiction
Shift by Kiku Hughes
One day, Kiku accidentally returned to a Japanese-American internment camp in the 1940s. Before she completely knows what’s going on, she is back in Modern San Francisco. After going back and forth, she was stuck in the 1940s alongside her grandmother. Although she conceptually knew the internment camps, experimenting them in real time alongside her family is a completely different story.
These comics and many others on the war had a huge impact on the world of comics, from memories to superheroes. You can also dive into the most influential comics of all time, comics of influential superheroes and hang on to the history of superheroes fighting the injustice of the real world.
