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October 1998
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Antisemitism in comics
The newspaper comic strip is often seen as being the most declined symbol of American mass culture, however many see this form of news as the most free literal genre of the twentieth century.
The American editing company, Paradox Press, have been changing these old prejudices in their comic strips. Strips in the second half of the 1980's received a new direction and now people can read about much more serious topics than Dennis the Menace or Batman.
The Czech newspaper Lidové noviny carry comics stories like Terror of Red Khmers in Kambodia, Criminal abuse of black Americans from Ku-Klux-Klan or Power of the media, in their Weekend editions.
The New Euroreporter can show you now the last story about one of the greatest lies in modern history - myths of the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. You can read about the author of this subverting book, General Piotr Ratchkovski, chief of the Russian secret police foreign department from 1884-1902. Comics will show you the way protocols got to the USA. It happened "thanks" to antisemitic car producer Henry Ford, who published protocols in his daily The Dearborn Independent. You can see the result of antisemitism in Europe - The Holocaust, and at the end comics will show you faces of modern 'world leaders' including Libyan dictator Muammar Kaddafi and former Uganda leader Idi Amin, who have publically stated their hostility to Jews.
But, even more than these new comics hard line stances, I really appreciate their great ideas to bring serious stories and pictures together in a new forum. It isn't the movies. It is something better: the real world. The only critism I have of this particular issue is the drawing of Hitler. Maybe it was because it was made by Americans. Look at the face of Adolf Hitler. Do you really think that is him?
This article isn't so large but I think we need two times larger space than article for some pictures from entioned comics story.
Daniel Damonovsky |
