What could make hiding from the Nazis while coming into womanhood more exciting? How about if we made it a comic book?! Well that's exactly was
Amsterdam has done with the beloved
Diary of Anne Frank. Representatives of the book are saying that they've decided to turn the most popular piece of literature coming out of the Holocaust into a graphic novel to get more kids to read it. Seriously? When I was a little Catholic schoolgirl, growing up in the Village
The Diary of Anne Frank was right up there with
Are You There God, It's Me Margaret? Seeing the SS in technicolor with little Nazi speech bubbles wouldn't have changed a damn thing for me. But hey, I guess when your whole city is constantly in a haze of pot smoke then you probably won't be able to absorb anything if it's not drawn out for you with minimal description and dialogue.
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What could make hiding from the Nazis while coming into womanhood more exciting? How about if we made it a comic book?! Well that's exactly was Amsterdam has done with the beloved Diary of Anne Frank. Representatives of the book are saying that they've decided to turn the most popular piece of literature coming out of the Holocaust into a graphic novel to get more kids to read it. Seriously? When I was a little Catholic schoolgirl, growing up in the Village The Diary of Anne Frank was right up there with Are You There God, It's Me Margaret? Seeing the SS in technicolor with little Nazi speech bubbles wouldn't have changed a damn thing for me. But hey, I guess when your whole city is constantly in a haze of pot smoke then you probably won't be able to absorb anything if it's not drawn out for you with minimal description and dialogue.
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Graphic novels are becoming more respected as a legitimate form of literature (the New York Times listed Watchmen as one of the 100 best novels ever written). There have been several classic works made into graphic novels in recent years. I believe the creators’ intent is to pay homage to those works in their own art form. However they do have the added benefit of making those classics more appealing and accessible to struggling readers. And, as Nelson Mandela said when his own (excellent) graphic autobiography was created, graphic novels are not only good for young struggling readers but also for older people who have trouble reading due to their eyesight. As to your question of whether this is politically correct, there’s already a precedent in Art Spiegelman’s Maus, which is also about the Holocaust and is one of the most renowned graphic novels.
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