In “ A Cartoon Manifesto,” written for the National Review, Shlaes looks to introduce her conservative audience to what she calls “the oddly named genre of the ‘graphic novel.’ ” She expects skepticism. Shlaes says that she intends “The Forgotten Man Graphic Edition” as a demonstration of the power of this medium, and it’s a claim worth evaluating. Which means that you-and your children-can now see those people being forgotten and hurt in stark, black-and-white (occasionally sepia) pen and ink. Shlaes has just repackaged “The Forgotten Man,” her 2007 chronicle of “the people whom the New Deal forgot and hurt,” as a graphic novel. “ Amity Shlaes’s Anti-New Deal Graphic Novel,” by Jeff Shesol.Īmity Shlaes, the popular conservative author who has set out to debunk the New Deal, has issued a clarion call to cartoonists-or, rather, to her fellow conservatives, to hire themselves some cartoonists.
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