Exquisite images bear eloquent witness to a powerful account of the horrors of the Khmer Rouge I feel more and more that comics are capable of dealing even with the most difficult of subjects - an ability that has to do, I think, with their relative lack of words. Unlike a novel, they can make full use of silence. Pain may be seen in a glance on the faces of their characters; foreboding may be found in the sky and the trees. Tian Veasna's brilliant and powerful book about the murderous reign of ...
Exquisite images bear eloquent witness to a powerful account of the horrors of the Khmer Rouge I feel more and more that comics are capable of dealing even with the most difficult of subjects - an ability that has to do, I think, with their relative lack of words. Unlike a novel, they can make full use of silence. Pain may be seen in a glance on the faces of their characters; foreboding may be found in the sky and the trees. Tian Veasna's brilliant and powerful book about the murderous reign of ...
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