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  • Critique, Caricature, and C...
    Lunsford, Andrea A; Rosenblatt, Adam

    The Rise of the American Comics Artist, 11/2010
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    Since the early 1990s, when Art Spiegelman’s Holocaust memoir in comic book form,Maus, won a Pulitzer Prize, comics creators have gained increasing attention for producing comics about contemporary events. Joe Sacco’s comics about Palestine and the former Yugoslavia, Ted Rall’s “graphic travelogue”To Afghanistan and Back, a comic book adaptation of the 9/11 Commission Report, and Seth Tobocman’sPortraits of Israelis and Palestinians: For my ParentsandWar in the Neighborhoodall represent the growing interest in using properties of word and image specific to comics to capture “the news.” As a result, comics journalism has begun to pop