Artists during WWI

You can’t underestimate the power of comics.   After WWI an artist was actually dubbed “The man who won the war” by a general.  Comics have the ability to boost morale and get people to look at issues from different angles.  The article Brushes and Bayonets at BBC talks mostly about the UK during WWI, but I think its relavent to now.  Americans need a boost in morale.  If a cartoonist can be credited as “The man who won the war”  cartoonists can do a lot now.  We’ve got a lot of soldiers overseas now that are probably worried about what’s going on at home and wondering why their even over there.  We’ve got people over here worried about the state of things.

Now if you’ve read Watchmen, Alan Moore suggests that more things are sexualized during times of high tension so that people will not worry about the cause or what will happen. Over the years I think more things (and age groups) have become sexualized by I’m not sure with its connected to this.  I don’t think that this is the right way to go.  Its not best to make people over look things, but instead to get them to feel good about something.  What do you think about this?

Kagehime

Alan Moore’s life

Hey,

I’m sure by now many of you know that Wachmen is being made into a movie that’s scheduled to be released in March 2009, but how much do you know about Alan Moore who also created V for Vendetta? Did you know that at one point he was on LSD and was selling it too? or that he lives fairly modestly. Well, I found a little news article about him that I thought was interesting.

There of course is an official movie website if the building excite is getting to you.

Kagehime