Rating: ❤❤❤ “A star of the first magnitude, he rose in the night of American slavery, attracted the admiring gaze of the civilized world, and so thrilled the hearts of men that they broke the chains of all his kind in the hope of further enriching the firmament of lofty human endeavor with stars like …
Rating: ❤❤❤❤ (Throughout this spiel I use this symbol 💬 to denote quotations taken from word balloons in the book.) Almost everything seems so “meta” nowadays. Of course, there’s always been a lot of metaness in art. Greek choruses are meta; Chaucer is meta; Puck’s closing monologue in A Midsummer Night’s Dream is too. …
Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ I hid myself within myself…and quietly wrote down all my joys, sorrows, and contempt in my diary. – Anne Frank “But this isn’t like other comics…It was so…so personal!” – Mala, Maus Anne X There’s not a drop of intended hyperbole in the introductory claim I’m about to make, so gird yourselves. The diary …
Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ “My dear young friend,” said Mustapha Mond, “civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political inefficiency.” – Brave New World …I just marvel. – Hedy Lamarr Make Minds Marvel There are too many spiels on how comic books amount to modern-day mythology while exhibiting the visceral storytelling …
