Comic Books Go to War (2009)

Comic Books Go to War plot

Comics have long outgrown the stage of children's books, but in recent decades a specific genre has developed in the medium: the war comic. The authors and illustrators use the genre to convey the horror of war or its political and military backgrounds in a direct and graphic way, for example for people who would never read a real book on the subject, but can be reached through this medium to be. And perhaps a cartoon about the concrete suffering of a specific family speaks more to the imagination than an article or a study about the abstract fate of an entire people. Joe Sacco launched the genre in 1992 with his strip Palestine, although there are even older examples, such as Maus, Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning comic strip about the Holocaust. We also meet people like Ted Rall, who made a comic about the Afghan war (To Afghanistan and Back) and Marjane Satrapi, whose comic strip Persepolis about oppression in Iranian society was made into a film and received an Oscar nomination.

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