Kubert’s writing occasionally devolves into rah-rah jingoism, but overall, it’s an impressive research and development effort.Tsk tsk tsk, they're using a bad word for patriotism, I see. I've seen that kind of propaganda used at least a few times before by the press when they review war stories like these, and it's not good. It only trivializes what's at stake in war and what the enemies are up to. And that's another reason why the customer base of mainstream newspapers is dwindling.
Because if we're going to try and stop the misuse of our favorite comics and their protagonists by the companies that write and publish them, we've got to see what both the printed and online comics news is doing wrong. This blog focuses on both the good and the bad, the newspaper media and the online websites. Unabashedly. Unapologetically. Scanning the media for what's being done right and what's being done wrong.
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Nashua Telegraph implies Kubert's latest work is "jingoism"
The Nashua Telegraph, in their report on Joe Kubert's new graphic novel, Dong Xoei, that's based on the Vietnam war, have slipped in a little insult:
What is sad is that considering the medium of comic books/graphic novels, often such "jingosim" is used to impart particular meaning, using effectively the societal shortcuts. For war comics, this often comes in the form of patriotism.
ReplyDeleteCheers!
Steven G. Willis
XOWComics.com