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EC Comics' magnum opus: Master Race
Jun. 22nd, 2019 05:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alicemacher
"Krigstein's formal qualities as a storyteller—not the story's subject matter—make 'Master Race' a tour de force. He encapsulates the decade of Nazi terror powerfully but with restraint, never slipping into the Grand Guignol that made EC notorious. The two tiers of wordless staccato panels that climax the story have become justly famous among the comics literate. They have often been described as 'cinematic,' a phrase thoroughly inadequate to the achievement: Krigstein condenses and distends time itself."
--Art Spiegelman, "Ballbuster: Bernard Krigstein's Life Between the Panels," The New Yorker, July 14, 2002
Warning for anti-Semitism.
( 'Run... as you ran from Belsen, Carl!' )
