COMICS
Jetlag - the latest volume of graphic novellas by Israeli comics collective Actus Tragicus - takes you beyond politics and stereotypes, and deep into the artists' thoughts and feelings.
The volume's five elegant, deadpan vignettes - originally written in Hebrew by collective member and best-selling Israeli novelist Etgar Keret - twist familiar details until innocence seems cut with savageness. They read almost like allegories for the constant possibility of violence, as when an unsuspecting magician reaches into his hat and pulls out his beloved bunny headfirst - only to find it's been decapitated. Such dark humor and a painterly attention to color (some of it computer-wrought) complement Jetlag's bitter tone.
Throughout, Jetlag's pages are crammed with anxious visions carrying the stories to a somewhat hopeful conclusion - a single Technicolor dream dreamt by five individual artists.
Jetlag, translated by Dan Ofri: $14.50. Westhampton House: rboyd04@snet.net. Actus Tragicus: www.actustragicus.com.
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Weather Vane on a Chain
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