A YEAR OF GIVEAWAYS: Palestine (The Special Edition)
24 Comments | Posted: March 1st, 2010 | Filed under: Contests
Who won Elephantmen: Wounded Animals? Sean Witzke did, and I’m eager to find out what he thinks! Congratulations, felicitations, etc, etc, etc to him.
This week, I’ve got a copy of the hardcover special edition of Joe Sacco’s acclaimed Palestine to offer up. Probably the best known piece of comics journalism, Palestine discusses the other side of the Israel situation with a frankness that’s refreshing. You can win your own copy by leaving a comment and telling everyone what underreported story you think would make a good comic. Heck, you can make up something if you want! One caveat: blatant moonbat or wingnut jerking-off will get you tossed in the penalty box and your entry will be deleted. Try to be civil, libtards and morans.
Just leave said comment before 12:01 AM on Saturday, March 6, 2010 to qualify and the winner will be chosen using Random.org. Previous entrants qualify, because I’m nice like that.
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Please note that because of shipping costs, this contest is for residents of the United States of America and Canada. You must leave your email address with your comment to qualify, as I’m not going to spend any time hunting down someone who didn’t want to be contacted about their amazing prize. One comment per person and yes, I will know if you cheat and will probably mock you in public.
Damn, that’s a sweet offer. I’ll say that I think immigrants (illegal or otherwise) to the US would make a good story for a comic. Something exploring why people choose to come into the country, what their life was like before and after, their family situation, their experiences, and so on. That’s not exactly an unreported issue, but it’s one that’s ripe for further exploration, and could be interesting in comics form.
While stories about autism aren’t exactly underreported right now, I’d like to see someone report what happens to people with autism in poor areas when they are too old to go to school. It’s not pretty, and mental health services for adults are badly underfunded.
Barring that, “Wham! Bam! Pow! Comics aren’t just for kids anymore!”
This may border on moonbat territory, but I would like to read comics stories about people who fall through the cracks in American health care system. Between 2002 and last year (when I got my current job), my family and I had no insurance coverage whatsoever. My previous employer didn’t provide insurance on the job, and he couldn’t even afford to get one for himself and his own family. We were very lucky not to have any major health issues during that period, although I think that if I had adequate preventative care and regular checkups, I may not have been diagnosed with type II diabetes last year.
I think we need a history of the tennis battles between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, done manga-style with lots and lots of speed-lines and expressive faces.
I’m a huge fan of nonfiction comics.
I think it would be interesting to see a journalism comic done about the Georgia-Russia conflict that started in 2008.
I just remembered this because it started on the day of the Beijing Olympics and realized I still don’t know much about it at the end of the Vancouver Olympics two years later.
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Something really random like the history of Fundamental Mormons. It would be bloody brilliant (literally).
I’d like to see Minty Lewis do a graphic novel about how hormones injected into cows are causing girls to start puberty at an early age.
I’d like to see one about the cultural revolution. My father in law took part in it directly, as did several older Chinese I know, and it affected pretty much everyone in China to some extent or another. It’s also a widely misunderstood event that illustrates the kinds of things that can happen in a society in transition from tradition to modernity, and the impact of anti-intellectualism (something very relevant in 2010 America, I think).
Before I read the Frank’s comment, I also thought about health care, to give the issue a narrative, a la The Jungle, or something similar with characters readers can relate to and sympathize and empathize with.
Since that’s been mentioned, I think Darfur is very under-reported. I even have a title: Holocaust 2. Now who is going to tackle the writing and art on this one?
I would love to see a serious take on deposed Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. Not the tabloid-fodder caracature that has been overreported by the national media to a point of silliness, but a more realistic (horrifying?) look at what this guy may or may not have been up to. There seems to be a goldmine of sleaziness just under the surface of that story (Chicago politics being what they are and everything). Dream artist for it? Definitely Drew Freidman or Jim Blanchard!
I would love to see a comic book about, say, this group of plucky Jamaicans who, despite all odds, become a beloved bobsled team in the Winter Olympics.
…wait, what?
I’d love to see a comic about the recent stolen Iranian election comparing it to the election that Slobodan Milosevic tried to steal from Vajislav Kostunica. Man, if only Iran’s outcome had turned out as justly as Yugoslavia’s. Ah, bazz-fazz.
I’d love to see on Quebec’s language laws and the poor schmoes who have to enforce them.
I’d like to see a comic book about the struggles in rebuilding the World Trade Center, particularly the short-reported scandal that a company might have been laundering funds at the site (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/23/nyregion/23company.html).
Not a moonbat.
I’d love to see a comics history of Earth First and the ELF, just to see a mix of nature scenes and people blowing stuff up.
I would love to see something done with the slow decline of cities like Flint, Michigan. Its my mothers hometown and seeing like it is now is very sad. Parts of the city are deserted and things keep getting worse. I drove by my great-aunt’s old house and the entire block is boarded up.
I’d like to see something done on the fact that bananas (as we know them) are probably going to disappear in the next couple decades. The last time it happened, all we got was that stupid song.
I’d love to see a review of Prague in 1968. The liberalization of the country while under the Soviets, and then the subsequent invasion of the country.
I’d love to see a comic about the Florida recount shenanigans in 2000. So very many wild characters to play with, on all sides of the political aisle…
I would love to see a story about the ship-wreckers in India, they lead a shitty life, but those torn apart hulks would make some excellent art.
A comic about the 2001 Tora Bora battle, simultaneously depicting the perspectives and motivations of the U.S. troops, the military/political forces obstructing them, the Pakistani army and civilians, and the cornered-yet-escaping Osama Bin Laden and his pals.
It certainly might not fall into the category of “underreported,” but a really in-depth look at the saga of the Somali pirates–both from their perspective and the perspective of those fighting them–would be really fascinating.
The Cherokee were death-marched across my homeland and no one has much of a clue about it.
Any chance someone could do a nice retelling of the Irish Easter Rising? There are lots of action scenes, gunfights, and human tragedy. Sure, it was sort of covered in The Wind that Shakes the Barley, but ultimately the bits in Dublin would be helped by the scope that could be given by a top notch artist.
Or the comic adaptation of Moneyball. Nothing says graphic novel like the birth of sabermetrics.
I’d like to see a something about the eugenics movement in the US… something that shines a light on some of the dubious experiments and proposals that came out of it without turning the whole thing into a cartoon.