Monday - September 11, 2006

Comic Books For Dummies

Good news for all of the Leftists out there who have had to suffer through life with nothing more than a liberal arts education and who never learned to read real books ... the 911 Commission Report is now in comic book form (order from Amazon - $16.95).

Order one today for any of your friends who voted for John Kerry or who are camped out with Cindy Sheehan. They could use some comic relief and who knows ... they might actually learn something. The really stupid Leftists like Alec Baldwin, Howard Dean and Dennis Kucinich will have to wait for the coloring book version due out next year ....

9/11 Gets A Graphic Retelling
_{NEW YORK (USA TODAY) - 8/22/2006 10:17 PM ET}

It looks like a comic book and reads like a comic book, but the subject matter is deadly serious: what went wrong before, during and after 9/11. The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation (Hill and Wang, $16.95 paperback, $30 hardcover), based on the government commission report that became a best seller in 2004, arrives Tuesday.

Last week, its writer, Sid Jacobson, and illustrator, Ernie Colón, both veterans of the comic book industry, visited what had been the World Trade Center, now a massive construction site ringed by hundreds of tourists. Jacobson, who lives in Los Angeles, hadn’t been there since the attack nearly five years ago.

“It’s painful,” he says, and he remembers eating at Windows on the World, the restaurant that was on the 106th and 107th floors of the North Tower. He had resisted going back to Ground Zero but agreed to be photographed there, although “it’s difficult. It’s not a place you say ‘cheese.’ “

Colón, a New Yorker, last visited the site a few months after 9/11: “I had to leave after a minute. I couldn’t stand it.” This time, he just stared at what he called “the anthill of activity” by construction crews. “But it’s still just an empty shell. And there’s no memorial yet. That’s disturbing.”

Their backgrounds in comics — Jacobson, 76, created Richie Rich and was executive editor of Marvel and Harvey Comics, and Colo´n, 75, drew Casper and Wonder Woman —may seem like odd preparation for dealing with real-life tragedy, terrorism and national security.

But, as Colón puts it, “we’re in the business of clarification.” Neither author nor illustrator calls the work a comic book, even if it uses a comic-book format, including sound effects: R-RUMBLE when the South Tower of the World Trade Center collapses, or BLAMM! when American Airlines Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon.

It pictures scenes aboard the doomed planes and towers. But, Jacobson says, “it’s not a dramatization,” unlike the movies World Trade Center and United 93. “It’s the story of an investigation. ... It’s graphic journalism.”

Like the original 9/11 Report, the graphic version is less about one day in September 2001 than about what led up to it and the inner workings of government agencies, often at cross-purposes. When the report, by a bipartisan commission, was released two years ago, it was published in three paperback editions. It was praised for its criticism of government failures and nominated for a National Book Award.

Colón tried to read the 568-page report when it was released but gave up after about 50 pages. “For a government report, it was well written,” he says, “but still hard to follow — lots of Arabic names, and a lot of things going on at the same time in different places.”

- More at USA TODAY...

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