Words and Pictures
It’s the start of a new semester and, as usual, I’m snowed under already. So, let me send you elsewhere, for some fun snow-day reading. Words Without Borders is a high-caliber online journal of translated writing. Every issue is worth browsing, with the only problem being not enough time to keep up with all of the remarkable writing within. The current issue solves that problem somewhat, as it is the second in a series of translated graphic narratives.
I love comics of all kinds — graphic memoirs, underground comix from the 1970s, and those Anarchism for Beginners type books especially — and I particularly like cryptic comics that, like poetry, say more with a few words and images than ten thousand words lined up in a row in an essay ever could.
Words Without Borders offers us a few of those, including…
The Pig by Riccardo Falcinelli and Marta Poggi (in the current issue), and…
A Bomb in the Family by David B. (in a back issue).
Go. Read. Come back. Discuss.
