January 2012
3 posts
Maus
Start with a memoir, add some historic content and a splash of artistic talent and put them together and you have created the graphic novel that is Maus. It is not only pictorial beautiful but the memoir is heartbreaking and filled with the human spirit as the tale of a man surviving through the hallow Holocaust and the tale of a strained relationship between a father and son. The people in the...
Blindness
Medical advances have proven to save millions of lives in just only the past century with the discoveries of vaccines and medications, yet humanity has still no cure for the abhorrent disease that runs rampant throughout countries, crosses cultural boundaries, knows no color line, socio-economics play no part in selecting its victims and attacks at random seemingly without rhyme or reason;...