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1001 COMICS MINI-SITE
Even with 960 pages, I couldn't squeeze all the material I had into my book 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die. This mini-site is designed to supplement that book with updates, additional information and links... but obviously you'll still need a copy of the book!
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Barefoot Gen
by Keiji NakazawaOriginal publisher: Shueisha (Japan)
First published: 1973
Reviewed by: Ben Dickson
Genre:
Autobiographical,
Historical,
War
Recommendations:
Some of the best comics ever done… Nakazawa, I’m sure, will be considered one of the great comic artists of this century. - Robert Crumb
Gen haunts me. The first time I read it was in the late 1970s, shortly after I’d begun working on Maus. I has the flu at the time and read it while high on fever. Gen burned its way into my heated brain with all the intensity of a fever-dream. I’ve found myself remembering images and events from the Gen books with a clarity that made them seem like memories from my own life rather than Nakazawa’s… Gen deals with the trauma of the atom bomb without flinching. There are no irradiated Godzillas or super-mutants, only tragic realities. - Art Spiegelman
Translations:Last Gasp, USA, 2004 (10 volumes)
Links:Last Gasp
