[D66] A short history of America...

[R.O.]

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Robert Crumb’s 1979 “A Short History of America” upends all of the 
above. It is a small miracle of concision and grace, consisting of a 
mere twelve panels that span across four pages (of three horizontal 
panels each) and roughly a hundred and fifty years of history. Every 
line, every mark in this comic imparts not only texture, but vital 
narrative information. In some ways, this short piece encapsulates the 
very art form of comics: one panel becomes panels, becomes a page, 
becomes pages, becomes story. Here the background is not simply a 
component of the story; one might say it is entirely the story.

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