Art Spiegelman...
Aug. 17th, 2019 02:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnny9fingersNow here is a chap who knows his comic-book history.
www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/17/art-spiegelman-golden-age-superheroes-were-shaped-by-the-rise-of-fascism
I do find it odd that Marvel, which grew great out of anti-fascist sentiment, should suddenly become "apolitical". The home of Captain America and outsiders like Spiderman, it has always been political.
DC's Batman was always a fascist, and Superman was the anti-fascist complimentary character to the Nazi ideal of the Nietzschean überman. But Marvel's heroes were troubled humans or human-like beings with exceptional powers or abilities. The personal, as we are reminded regularly, is political. But because your CEO is a Trump kissing type you will alienate many other folk. Can I be bothered to watch any more of Marvel's movies? My kids will no doubt decide that for me. But I will tell them that the person who leads the company is a Trump supporter. For some reason or other many children seem to find him objectionable in some way; my children included. What can they be seeing that we grown-ups don't? I have actually had to moderate my elder's language about Trump. I guess Trump doesn't have an awful lot of fans in London, even among the kids.
But poor old Marvel: sic transit and all that, what? E pluribus unum used to adorn Stan Lee's editorials. Far too socialist for nowadays. I seem to recall it was, for many years, the unofficial motto of the US of A.
Couldn't happen now.
www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/17/art-spiegelman-golden-age-superheroes-were-shaped-by-the-rise-of-fascism
I do find it odd that Marvel, which grew great out of anti-fascist sentiment, should suddenly become "apolitical". The home of Captain America and outsiders like Spiderman, it has always been political.
DC's Batman was always a fascist, and Superman was the anti-fascist complimentary character to the Nazi ideal of the Nietzschean überman. But Marvel's heroes were troubled humans or human-like beings with exceptional powers or abilities. The personal, as we are reminded regularly, is political. But because your CEO is a Trump kissing type you will alienate many other folk. Can I be bothered to watch any more of Marvel's movies? My kids will no doubt decide that for me. But I will tell them that the person who leads the company is a Trump supporter. For some reason or other many children seem to find him objectionable in some way; my children included. What can they be seeing that we grown-ups don't? I have actually had to moderate my elder's language about Trump. I guess Trump doesn't have an awful lot of fans in London, even among the kids.
But poor old Marvel: sic transit and all that, what? E pluribus unum used to adorn Stan Lee's editorials. Far too socialist for nowadays. I seem to recall it was, for many years, the unofficial motto of the US of A.
Couldn't happen now.
