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Fahrenheit 451
by Roger Ash
Every now as well as then, I get the feeling that comics are being accepted by the general population as not just being for kids. indeed they can be for kids, however they can likewise be for teens as well as adults, just like any type of type of art. as well as then I checked out something such as this short article on Slate by Sarah Boxer as well as recognize that to some people, comics will always be the purview of kids as well as those who can’t checked out “real” books.
Someone, I’m believing Neil Gaiman however I might be wrong, when stated something to this impact when explaining some people’s view on comics: Words can be art. photos can be art. however a combination of the two is only for children. After reading her comments on the recent comic adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury as well as artist Tim Hamilton, I believe that Ms. Boxer most likely feels this method about comics as well. Yet I would state that books like Art Spiegleman’s Maus, will Eisner’s A contract With God as well as Dropsie Avenue, as well as Joe Sacco’s risk-free area Gorazde are able to bring house the horrors of war, tenement life, as well as the human condition in its numerous develops in a method that words or photos on their own never could. telling a story as a comic is as valid a method to tell a story as a novel, film, or magazine article.
One of her primary contentions in the short article is that comics show the “dumbing down” of literature that Bradbury spoke of in Fahrenheit 451 as well as adapting the story to comic type is ironic in the extreme. This is in spite of that truth that Bradbury is, as she notes, a comics fan as well as composed the adaptation himself. I would believe he doesn’t feel the exact same method as well as much of the short article seems to be her arguing with Bradbury, who isn’t there to protect himself.
And then she composes this after a long quote from the book discussing exactly how literature devolved :
“Sounds like the Internet, doesn’t it? news articles ended up being blogs, blogs ended up being tweets.”
So by composing about this on the internet, isn’t she doing precisely the exact same thing she’s taking the comic, as well as Bradbury himself, to task for? I question if she caught the irony there?
Also, one of Bradbury’s points in the book (as I keep in mind it) is that people stopped wanting to believe for themselves. That was the genuine disaster in the book. people stopped paying interest to what was in books as well as desired others to tell them what to believe as well as exactly how to feel. That point seems to be missing from the piece.
I believe comics are an amazing artform that can tell any type of kind of story the developer pleases. Ray Bradbury is one of my favortie authors. as well as in her article, Ms. Boxer slams both of them as well as I admit she pushed my buttons. bottom line, Ms. Boxer’s short article is an viewpoint piece, as well as one I disagree with.
What do you think? Anything you’d like to add to the discussion?
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