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I Saw It
Our second pair of Essential Sequentials features
another book by courageous and insightful publisher,
Leonard Rifas who also published Corporate Crime
Comics. Like Art Spiegleman's Maus, this Survivor's
True Story: I Saw It! shows one of civilization's
great horrors in an entirely new light.Scott
McCloud's Understanding Comics clearly explains how
sequential art gives a new and powerful vision to
nightmares that can never be "realistically" portrayed
in any media.Art Spiegleman, Leonard Rifas and Scott
McCloud are Lines On Paper alumni and Maus, Corporate
Crime and I Saw It! are classic Essential Sequentials.
Especially now that our administration is talking
seriously about the development of "usable" nuclear
weapons. Seriously!
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This was taken from the back cover:
8:15 am, August 6,1945.Six miles above the city of
Hiroshima, bomb bay doors snapped open to release
"Little Boy," a code name for the world's first atomic
bomb.
In an instant thousands of lives were destroyed, while
the city's buildings, books and paintings caught fire
and burned. The survivors discovered later that the
bomb had permanently tainted them with its invisible
contamination.
Keiji Nakazawa was 6 years old when he experienced
this holocaust.He survived to write and draw this
story.
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Essential Sequentials!
Oh yeah.Look at this
new -Exceptional Sequesti - No -
Exquen -- ah.. it's down there!
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