![]() ![]() The five comics Polak analyzes are rooted in different experiences and events, but they all draw attention to the dangers inherent in the representation of suffering. Historical atrocity is the center of each comic in Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics. In her Eisner-nominated book, Kate Polak asks how fictional comics can simultaneously represent historical suffering and question those representations. However, questions about what it means to look at suffering and violence remain present in comics today. Wertham’s manipulation and fabrication of evidence has been widely denounced. ![]() Images of crime and horror were causing juvenile delinquency, the psychiatrist claimed, and repeated depictions of suffering rooted comics in perversity. Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics Kate PolakĬONTENT WARNING: This book includes discussions of genocide, alcoholism, sexual assault, and racism, as well as images depicting blood, gun violence, animal cruelty, and lynching.Ĭomics’ ability to portray violence is notoriously tied to the 1954 publication of Frederic Wertham’s Seduction of the Innocent. ![]()
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