Too Busy Thinking About My Comics II
Q Magazine Comics Reviewer & your Blogger at http://toobusythinkingboutcomics.blogspot.co.uk/ Husband of the Splendid Wife, walking companion of Eyebrow Girl, the Hound Supreme, escaped teacher, irredeemable amateur
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“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
H G Wells
(Panels by Carl Burgos, from Marvel Comics #1, 1939)
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“Art is the great refusal of the world as it is.”
Herbert Marcuse
(Panels by Bob Davies et al, from “The Blazing Skull” in “Mystic Comics” #5, 1941)
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“Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds, and I probably know little of these years through which I busily work and live, beyond this, how sin and frailty deface them, and how mercy crowns them, - Farewell great year of opening, not of alarming, change: and welcome new year laden with promise and with care.”
W. E. Gladstone, 29th December, 1868
(Panel by Bill Everett, et al, from Comedy Comics #9, 1942, as restored for The Golden Age Of Marvel Comics vol: 2, 1999)
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“How does a man live? By completely forgetting he is a human being.”
Bertolt Brecht
(By Ben Thompson et all, from Comedy Comics #9, 1942)
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“Never believe governments, not any of them, not a word they say; keep an untrusting eye on all they do.”
Martha Gellhorn
(From “Captain America And Ivan The Terrible” by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby, Captain America Comics #4, 1941)
