(PROGRAM THOUSAND WORDS. 13 October 2009)
In 1945 ended the bloodiest wars that mankind has experienced the World War II. Of its existence is now a terrible memory of the millions of lives severed by the barbarity of war and the scientific knowledge of the inhumanity of the torture applied by the Nazis to those who did not consider the Aryan race.
Cartoon World has reflected this conflict in many series and comic books, the point of view adopted in most of them is the war. This war is spectacular from a military perspective, we struggle with sophisticated weapons, new strategies are, and an alliance of nations due to a strong army. (See Captain America, Captain Marvel, Superman, Sergeant Fury Battle Feats ,...).
In the 70's point of view changes, and the conflict begins to show focusing on the victims of this bloody war, in locked up in concentration camps like Auschwitz and the torment and torture.
why I speak today of Auschwitz Pascal Croci (Year 2005, Norma Editorial) and, above all, Maus, Art Spiegelman's (Year 2005 for the edition of Reservoir Dogs), but written between 1973 and 1991, work for which, for the first time, and only for the moment a comic has received the Pulitzer Prize.
Any work connected with the Jewish Holocaust is destined for success (at least, as a character Sophie's Choice), but there is a fundamental difference comes at the two works that bring today. Croci bid to illustrate his story with a detailed and realistic drawing, giving it an air documentary Spiegelman's drawing is much more succinct, sober and careful stroke, drawing naked attempt to pass unnoticed to be functional. And Pascal Croci resorted to drawing men, who become walking skeletons while Spiegelman illustrates his story with clearly anthropomorphic mice and cats, which in turn subtracting gravity to the story, amplifies.
Who are Pascal Croci and Art Spiegelman?
Pascal Croci is a great French artist and writer born in 1961 and based in Montpellier. Began drawing characters and historical comic books for various publications until she made this comic, Auschwitz as a very personal project. So far their best work is an adaptation of Dracula of Bram Stoker that print their label as an artist very realistic and detailed.
To Auschwitz did meticulous research, met with former inmates of the concentration camp was based on the documentary Shoah , and movies like Schindler's List and memories Wladyslaw Szpilman (The Pianist ). His work won him an award from the French National Assembly in 2001.
However, his work is too mannered, his face contorted and deformed permanently actors unable to reach an emotional climax high and his work will be in excess of the sources on which it is based (even copying scenes from movies ), so you have the impression that we have seen this story and that contributes very little. Let's
two hits in addition to the accurate narrative of reproduction Exact details such as uniforms and field layout. One is a dramatic episode that links the Holocaust with that of the Balkan wars and the other is a passage in which the hero is enlisted in the battalion for cleaning the gas chambers to see one last time to her daughter when you be removed (special treatment).
Art Spiegelman was born in Stockholm in 1948, and grew up in U.S. He trained in art and design and began his career drawing illustrations for stickers and cards (such as Garbage Pail Kids). In the mid-sixties began in the underground comics in San Francisco and drawn for various publications fanzine style. He returned to New York and there develop their work in newspapers by creating multiple characters, until in 1980 he founded a magazine with his wife, Raw, European-style broadcasting to the authors of the new wave American and European, and which began publishing in serial form , Maus. Author of controversial issues, conducted in 2004 a comic on the 11-S, titled Without the Shadow of Two Towers .
Maus is the story of a survivor of Auschwitz, Vladek Spiegelman. It is the author's father, a Polish Jew who survived imprisonment in Auschwitz. The narration is done as a conversation between father and son and so the whole story is marked not only the situation of Jews in Poland during the Third Reich, but the difficult parent-child relationship, by the suicide of the mother, real event that happened during the youth of Art Spiegelman and the death of a brother, who knew no during the closure in the field. Maus
not only deserves the Pulitzer Prize in 1992 but global recognition. Has been published throughout Europe and attacked by neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers.
Among the curiosities of the book, the representation of different nationalities is done by several species of anthropomorphic character. So the Jews are mice (mouse Maus is German) Nazis are cats, the Poles pigs, the French frogs, deer for the Swedes, Americans and dogs to fish to the British. The choice is deliberate, it is a metaphor for the trap in which conirtió occupied Poland for the Jews, and how they felt betrayed by the rest of Poland.
white drawings black and very edgy and nervous line is heavily influenced by German Expressionism. No doubt there infuence in his work films as Sophie's Choice or books as If this is a man of Primo Levi, but which does not copy but merely to adopt the same view The witness of the experience mark his life and that of their descendants. Significantly, the title of the first part of the book, My father bleeds history , and the second, my problems begin.
The author's father, Vladek Spiegelman, uses broken English that betrays his Polish origin. Is typical of an older person who has not learned English well and that confuses tenses, grammatical genders, the use of ser and estar and prepositions. This artist does it deliberately, and made the mistake of deleting the first edition in English and has been corrected in the following.
Editing Reservoir Dogs of 2005 is prefaced by writer Umberto Eco, which gives an idea of \u200b\u200bthe dimension of this comic and its international repercussions. Indeed, within weeks following prolonged talk of another work by Eco, The Conspiracy-The True Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion , and its author, Will Eisner.
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