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They Called Us Enemy, Part One
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"The title, They Called Us Enemy, is certainly a grabber, but it is also factually true. All Japanese-Americans, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, were categorized as 'Enemy Aliens', simply because we’re of Japanese ancestry. It is also a phrase that is crazy, because we’re Americans. My grandparents were the ones that immigrated to this country. My mother was born in Sacramento, California. My father was a San Franciscan. My siblings and I were born in Los Angeles. We’re Americans. But simply because we look like this they called us the enemy. We were at war with Japan, yes. But we are Americans, and it’s this history of racism, and hysteria, and simplistic thinking that characterized us as the enemy." -- George Takei
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cyberghostface
This was a comic that was released in 1957. It served as an inspiration for numerous civil rights advocates including Congressman John Lewis (who read it as a teenager) and protest movements across the Southern United States. More recently thousands of copies were distributed to democracy activists in the Middle East; Lewis attributed credited this comic as being one of the contributing elements in the 2011 Egyptian protests. History.com has more extensive write-up here.
As this has been made free from places like Comicsbeat and the Civil Rights Movement Archive I am posting the whole thing.
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Anne Frank's Diary, Part One
Jun. 12th, 2022 03:00 pmcyberghostface
Today marks the 80th anniversary of Anne Frank starting her diary. This is the authorized graphic novel adaptation of her writing.
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My Friend Dahmer, Part 2
Feb. 11th, 2018 08:22 pmcyberghostface
As with the first part, this comic isn't overtly graphic but given that it's about Dahmer there's still content you might find disturbing.
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My Friend Dahmer, Part 1
Feb. 9th, 2018 05:46 pmcyberghostface
This is a graphic novel about Jeffrey Dahmer written from the perspective of someone who was friends with him in high school.
I'm not sure where to even begin with what might be triggering given who it's about. That being said they don't show any of the murders but they are alluded to.
Remembering Muhammad Ali, 1942-2016
Jun. 4th, 2016 03:26 amalicemacherMuhammad Ali, one of the world's best-known athletes, passed away yesterday at age 74.
In his memory, I offer an excerpt from the profile, "The Greatest," in The Big Book of the '70s. Script by Jonathan Vankin, art by Graham Manley. One page of three.
( 'The Rumble in the Jungle' )
In his memory, I offer an excerpt from the profile, "The Greatest," in The Big Book of the '70s. Script by Jonathan Vankin, art by Graham Manley. One page of three.
( 'The Rumble in the Jungle' )
A webcomic about Planned Parenthood
Mar. 31st, 2016 03:57 pmicon_ukNow it might seem odd me posting this, I am not American, and I am a cis-male, and one for whom parenthood is never likely to be a thing.
( But that's sort of the point.... )
( But that's sort of the point.... )
March Book Two: Protest
Dec. 8th, 2015 08:24 pminformationgeek
Warning for heavy racism, language, and violence.
In times like this, especially over the past few months since I last posted anything from March, I feel it's best to return to this comic.
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March Book Two - Freedom Rides
Jun. 14th, 2015 03:11 pminformationgeek
Warning: Racism, language, and violence. It may be history, but it's hard to read.
11 out of 187 pages
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March Book Two - Opening
Jun. 5th, 2015 07:41 pminformationgeek
Given the nature of the book and what is being shown, there is racism, intolerance, and some violence.
7 out of 187 pages
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March Book One - Bloody Sunday
May. 24th, 2015 01:19 pminformationgeek
"Without a doubt, the comics format made me the man I am today. I remember reading [Martin Luther King and The Montgomery Story], 14 pages and sold for 10 cents, and as a student with other students in Tennessee, we read the book and had a protest using the lessons from that book.
It was our guide – it was like our road map. And this is my belief – March, with its three books, will be a road map and a guide to many people in the future, especially young people. Especially children." - Congressman John Lewis
Given the nature of the book and what is being shown, there is racism, intolerance, and some violence.
5 and 1/4 out of 124 pages
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March Book One - Lunch Counter Sit-Ins
May. 5th, 2015 01:35 pminformationgeek
"To have a parent, a grandparent, a teacher, say “all of the children should be reading this book,” to have someone say “this book should be in every school and every library,” that is very meaningful. And I hope people will read it, not only here in America but around the world, and be inspired to act, be inspired to do something." - Congressman John Lewis
Given the nature of the book and what it is showing, there is racism, intolerance, and some violence.
12 and 1/3 out of 124 pages
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The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick
May. 3rd, 2015 09:15 amalicemacher
In February and March 1974, SF writer Philip K. Dick had a series of hallucinatory experiences which influenced the remainder of his personal life and literary career. Although he generally treated these as genuine spiritual revelations, on which he wrote a massive journal commentary he called the Exegesis, he did occasionally consider the possibilities that these visions were symptoms of schizophrenia or a temporal lobe epilepsy. Whatever they were, in 1981 Dick sat with interviewer Gregg Rickman to discuss them, and in the summer of 1986, R. Crumb illustrated some excerpts in Weirdo #17. 2⅔ pages out of 8.
( A fish story? )
Maus: A Survivor's Tale
Aug. 21st, 2014 08:41 pmalicemacher
There's pretty much nothing I can say, to summarize this work's artistic and commercial impact on sequential art, that others haven't said before, so on to the scans, all from Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began (Pantheon, 1991). Total of nine pages out of 130: two from Chapter 1, one from Chapter 2, six (out of 24 pages) from Chapter 3.
Trigger warning for scenes of Holocaust atrocities and for racist speech.
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