The September 11 was a blow to the Americans. Within the comics industry, the first to react was Jim Steranko, who wrote just weeks after calling responsibility in creating comics. Shortly after he was interviewed to deepen their opinion. I leave you with the manifesto translated:
TERRORISTS OF COMICS: Choose now!
You are in danger!
all are. We have seen how our beliefs, our work, our way of life, our country and our very existence have become increasingly corrupt. The attack on U.S. the 11-S has exhausted the limit of my patience to the destructive forces around us ... and the people behind them.
Those who know me can confirm that I have never seen myself as one of the good guys. But I just saw evil, culminating in the tragedy of World Trade Center, this perception has placed a different perspective.
Marvel reflects the 11-S
Art Spiegelman's vision
Like many others, rejected the plague of violence and death that is ravaging our nation and I feel frustrated, even powerless to combat it. I find it particularly annoying that the art form with which I am more closely identified appear to have turned their backs on the virtues on which it was built.
current comics are owned by the brutality, destruction, depravity, cynicism, and obscenity. No? Here is a press release I received a few weeks ago:
ENNIS, Conner, Palmiotti prostitutes!
August 19: Have you ever wondered what it would sleep with a prostitute with superpowers? Garth Ennis has done it and has signed Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti to develop the story in PRO, a 64-page self-contained numbers that come next summer from Image . Following the announcement of the panel Image All Stars "of Wizarworld , Palmiotti SPLASH said" This is probably too busy to keep Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (1) over the next five years. This is the first superhero prostitute in the world and many of the characters in the comic-book listed with it. It is made in the style of Garth so the characters are not real but are as the superhero mainstream with a prostitute in the mix. It's bad, it will be worse than Hitler testicles. Garth is , ensuring his madness. Amanda is , so it's a wicked woman drawing this material, making it even more evil. And then I am, I usually like problems anyway. " Conner and Palmiotti signed at the CBLDF table Saturday afternoon to begin preparing the funding sources.
Assuming that this is funny, I do not laugh. Are some of the most publicized talent this field so desperate that they now celebrate evil? Apparently so. Obviously they see themselves as cultural terrorists and want the world to know that they have allied with evil. They are happy to do so.
Ultimates
Personally, I'm sick of evil, particularly psychotic, nihilistic garbage that is seen as entertainment and as noted by the twilight of the Age of comics. All I have to do to witness the evil at its highest expression is look out the window ... It's free! I have no reason to pay $ 2.95 to know that I am surrounded by hatred, fear, destruction and death. And damned if I stand to throw it in the face those who file the contempt felt for the rest of us with Paraguay and pose tragic arrogance of chewing gum. Well, gang, if you think terrorists, there are those among us who treat you like terrorists.
Hard Boiled
I felt my creative soul was crushed when I saw the Twin Towers collapse. At that time, many people realized that the time had run out of mistakes. Now, is a question of survival! Our families, our friends, our lives are at stake and it's time to take action, to take place against evil and all who ally with him.
Powers a few years ago, I asked Stan Lee on the depressing direction that comics have taken. It was easy to see that he was not happy with it, but said, "is what readers want." I think not. I think we are well-developed characters, convincing dialogue, interesting plots and the value of our money in solid entertainment ... God forbid, something that suggests an atom of virtuosity in a new era of consciousness.
Justice League: The Rise of Arsenal # 1
Instead, we face an avalanche of leaflets inflated price in which no distinction between heroes and villains because the bullets are suffocated by numbing repetitive fangs and claws, teeth and gore, fan-boy rage and chaos of ass and tits. Instead of a social mythology, the "aesthetics of the lollipop" (2) has been a monument to the intellectual and moral poverty. It would be funny if it were not so damn pathetic. Am I being too subtle?
Agents of Atlas
I'm alive but I'm not well. I'm in the same place as you and all Americans now. We let the world spin around us because we were too complacent, too careless, too politically correct. The daily tradition of simple civility, gratitude, courtesy and consideration has been replaced by indignation frown, the harsh language, the stunning lack of respect and open hostility. Our nation is being crushed by evil. Do not know what you are doing about it, but I can not move her back to what I call the Era "Kerkoviana" (3) of comics. I am prepared to fight it using every means that might form.
If we are enough, we can drive the irresponsible bastards business and our lives with maximum efficiency ... and if that fails, I personally will provide tickets for the caves of the Taliban.
Spiderman and not fight against evil, but makes a pact with the devil.
Is there anybody who likes devil worshipers are not satisfied unless they are pulling shrapnel from their skulls? Put your foot down now and fight for the kind of ethics, values \u200b\u200band ideals that you believe. If you do not, you deserve everything you receive ... and will not be pleasant!
I would like to know whose side you are YOU.
(1) A legal partnership to protect the rights of authors, publishers and distributors of comics U.S. attacks against censorship or intolerance.
(2) I have not found an exact definition, but the idea I think it's sexualizing something that looks like a naive and childish, like Britney Spears at the time.
(3) In reference to Jack Kerkovian , an American pathologist who produced much controversy in U.S. for his advocacy of euthanasia. Besides applying to the 130 patients cured, has lectured in defense of this practice and has appeared as a candidate for Congress .
must also remember that in December 2001 Steranko joined Vanguard publishers and Marvel and Diamond distributor to publish a limited edition of 2,500 copies of the artwork entitled " American spirit "(The Spirit of America), a reprint of the cover of forgotten Marvel Comics Index # 8 1978. The profits were used for an art scholarship directed to victims of the bombings:
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