Final Topic: Comics in WW2 Propaganda

Specifically relating to the representation of Japanese people in such comic books.

I found an interesting website that catalogues the history of Chinese American visual artists and found a Cartoonist named Chu F. Hing.

Creator of the Green Turtle

A character Gene Luen Yang recently revived.

 

I also Checked out the book War Without Mercy: Race & Power In the Pacific War 

by John W. Dower at Chico’s suggestion. From reading the introduction, War Without Mercy Details the effect of race on making WW2 a particularly nasty conflict.

 

I also found an article entitled This Is Our Enemy on JSTOR. Written by Paul Hirsch, the article reviews the process by which American comics were seized for propaganda use indirectly by the US government, and how the conflicting messages of the propaganda (one message of racial tolerance and another of the racial defectiveness of “our enemy”) contributed to the racial injustice inflicted on American citizens during the war.

3 thoughts on “Final Topic: Comics in WW2 Propaganda”

  1. I like the inclusion of Japanese propaganda comics as well. It will be interesting to see the differences between American and Japanese propaganda.

  2. I think it’s interesting that we both have the same general topic (representation in comics), but we’re both going in wildly different directions with it. I think an in-depth look at a specific time period like this will be really neat and I can’t wait to see what you do with it!

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