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The Graphic World, Part III: (Worth) Ten Thousand Words

February 2009

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Excerpt from: Waltz with Bashir. Copyright 2009 by Ari Folman and David Polonsky. By arrangement with Metropolitan Books, a division of Henry Holt and Company. All rights reserved.
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Waltz with Bashir
By Ari Folman
Translated from Hebrew by David Polonsky
This Animated Life: An Interview with David Polonsky
By Liel Leibovitz
A few simple descriptions would suffice to understand just how rich and strange an artwork Waltz with Bashir truly is: an animated documentary film
February 2009 Graphic Lit Drifting Life Yoshihiro Tatsumi Feature
From “A Drifting Life”
By Yoshihiro Tatsumi
The genius behind all those great works is sitting right next to me! Strange he doesn’t seem at all different from any other young guy…
Translated from Japanese by Taro Nettleton
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THE PIG
Il Maiale: The Pig
By Riccardo Falcinelli
Author’s Note: “The Pig” is an allegorical short story, but its scope is not so restricted as it may seem at first. It would be more correctly defined as a “civil” story,…
Translated from Italian by Marta Poggi
February 2009 Graphic Lit Tetsu Yamanote Line Osamu Tezuka Feature
Tetsu of the Yamanote Line
By Osamu Tezuka
He’s a pickpocket. I want his fingers to be agile enough he’ll be able to ‘work’ again.
Translated from Japanese by Camellia Nieh
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Blizzard in the Jungle
By Ri Chol-Geun & Jo Hak-Rae
Since the ideology and values conveyed in children’s books tend to be relatively transparent in all cultures, I hope this excerpt from Blizzard in the Jungle gives a useful glimpse into the self-representation…
Translated from Korean by Heinz Insu Fenkl & Geesu Lee
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Kaspar
By Diane Obomsawin
Translated from French by Helge Dascher