Mike Cecchini Aug 19, 2019
Captain America doesn't like bullies but Marvel seems afraid of them, pulling a legendary creator's essay over political backlash fears.
The forthcoming book Marvel: The Golden Age 1939 - 1949 was scheduled to feature an introductory essay by Eisner Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and author Art Spiegelman. Spiegelman’s essay (which can and should be read in full here) draws a parallel between the rise of authoritarianism in Europe before World War II and its influence on early superhero stories and the political climate of today. However, he was told that Marvel “is not allowing its publications to take a political stance.”
Spiegelman’s essay deals with the explosion of the comic book art form in the late ‘30s and early 1940s, the Jewish identity of so many key creators, and even manages in one sentence to touch briefly, gently on the subject of how these creators were...
Captain America doesn't like bullies but Marvel seems afraid of them, pulling a legendary creator's essay over political backlash fears.
The forthcoming book Marvel: The Golden Age 1939 - 1949 was scheduled to feature an introductory essay by Eisner Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and author Art Spiegelman. Spiegelman’s essay (which can and should be read in full here) draws a parallel between the rise of authoritarianism in Europe before World War II and its influence on early superhero stories and the political climate of today. However, he was told that Marvel “is not allowing its publications to take a political stance.”
Spiegelman’s essay deals with the explosion of the comic book art form in the late ‘30s and early 1940s, the Jewish identity of so many key creators, and even manages in one sentence to touch briefly, gently on the subject of how these creators were...
- 8/19/2019
- Den of Geek
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