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The Forward announced the left-wing graphic novelist who authored Maus in the mid-80s is going to collaborate with another artist who's hostile to Israel, Joe Sacco, on a GN about October 7, 2023:

Art Spiegelman, whose graphic novel about the Holocaust won the Pulitzer Prize, now plans to write one about the war in Gaza — though he knows it will inevitably be controversial.

“I’ve never had a bigger wrestling match inside my head,” Spiegelman, who is 76, said at a documentary film festival last month, according to Hyperallergic, a news site focussed on the art world. “My superego says, ‘You must do this if you’re going to live with yourself,’ and my id says, ‘Who wants the grief [of] being canceled by everyone on the planet?’”

Spiegelman made the remarks after the premiere of Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse, a film about his career. He offered scant details about the Gaza book, beyond that he plans to collaborate on with Joe Sacco, a fellow graphic novelist who has previously written about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

When somebody teams up with somebody whose resume is as hurtful to Israel as Sacco's happens to be, it's a sure bet something will go wrong, right down to how they perpetuate the "palestine" fabrication. Stuff like this is precisely why I sometimes find it difficult to feel sorry for Spiegelman having his GN blacklisted at some schools. Has he ever defended most other creators' work besides his own? In the Hyperallergic piece, it says:

[...] After the documentary’s premiere, Spiegelman told the sold-out audience in a Q&A session that his next comic will be about Gaza, in collaboration with Joe Sacco. He was wary of providing any details on a project that he thinks will struggle to find a publisher in the United States.

If it turns out to be as negative towards right-wingers as I'm guessing it could be, that'll make clear they believe left-wingers are incapable of making horrible errors, even though much of what led to the horror on October 7, 2023 began with left-wing politicians forcing it upon the public. It also says in the Forward article:

Spiegelman’s work on Gaza — if and when it is published — would join a string of books about the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack on Israel and the ensuing war. They include two books by Haaretz journalists: Amir Tibon’s The Gates of Gaza, a first-person account of the massacre and, more broadly, the failings of the Netanyahu government; and Lee Yaron’s 10/7: 100 Human Stories, a collection of intimate profiles of hostages and some who died that day.

It sounds like nobody wants to explore how it got to the point such a terrible thing could happen from a historical viewpoint, or how the Koran/Hadith influenced it, and only want to blame right-wingers. Well that's exactly the problem. If their GN project does find a publisher, it could be based on whether it's more of an anti-conservative, anti-Israeli screed, and less about whether it excuses Islamofascism for its role in the horror of October 7, 2023. The chances are high neither Spiegelman nor Sacco will interview any survivors of the tragedy any more than survivors of September 11, 2001, and the 2015 terrorist attack in France at the Bataclan. And the chances they'll be honest and transparent about specific details is very low. If so, what's the whole point of this GN project beyond virtue-signaling?

Update: according to this, the news may have been taken out of context.

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