![]() ![]() ![]() The strangely repetitive pose of the characters with their arms thrown behind their head to signify joy is definitely disturbing, not to mention the abundance of casual violence the characters seem to unthinkingly inflict on one another. “His drafsmanship is somewhat graceless, even homely,” Spiegelman admits of author Nakazawa’s simple drawings … and you can’t help agreeing. “ Gen haunts me,” the legendary Art Spiegelman, creator of the Pulitzer-winning Maus, begins his introduction to the new translation of the Japanese original, Hadashi no Gen. Keiji Nakazawa was six when “Little Boy” decimated the city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. ![]()
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