[lbo-talk] Paul Buhle: Comics Grow Up (Again)

Shane Taylor s-t-t at juno.com
Fri Dec 5 13:31:09 PST 2003


Yoshie Furuhashi fwd'd:
> ***** Paul Buhle

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> The Metamorphosis
> By Peter Kuper
> Crown, 79 pages, $18.00

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> It was unfortunate that Introducing Kafka, with drawings by
> Crumb, had appeared two years earlier. Crumb's Kafka was
> really Crumb, amazingly Jewish, dominated by a tyrannical
> father (like the artist himself in childhood), later adrift in life but


> craving sex from notably Jewish women, like the artist himself.
> It was a Kafka-esque tour de force.

"Unfortunate" for Kuper only. Introducing Kafka was the only Introducing I ever saw offered in hardback, and one I jealously guard. Crumb did a f'ng exquisite job.

-- Shane

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