Extra! Extra! Steve Brodner's Brilliance Recognized by Herblock Prize
Brodner, a frequent contributor to The Nation, is both a great caricaturist and a great portraitist.
Showing posts with label Jeet Heer. Show all posts
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Saturday, March 29, 2008
More on Wertham by Beaty and Jeet Heer
My friend Bart's got a response to Jeet Heer's review of Hajdu's new book on Wertham and 50s comics censorship and Jeet responds to Bart as well. See "SYMPOSIUM: CULTURE WARS: Comic books were criticized not because they possessed the 'unruly spirit of youth' but because they were emblematic of the worst aspects of a widely disparaged mass culture," Bart Beaty writes," by BART BEATY AND JEET HEER, Globe and Mail March 29, 2008. I'm of two minds about Bart's argument, but I will accept that Wertham was acting as a concerned psychiatrist. Unfortunately the most-well meaning people can do the most damage.
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