![]() ![]() Banned Book Club, a new graphic novel from Iron Circus Comics, does feature the transformative quality of books, though it’s an afterthought to the equally potent powers of peer pressure and ideology. Films about books often feature characters as bland zeroes…until a text is thrust into their hands, whereupon they are transformed, given to memorizing rather than burning the classics ( Fahrenheit 451), blowing sax and reciting beatnik poetry ( The Dead Poets Society), or being possessed by murderous sex demons ( Evil Dead II). Sagan, is it possible to invest books with too much magic? In TV, films, and comics featuring bookish storylines, they’re granted powers they lack in real life. ![]() ” If books weren’t magical, why do so many people work so hard to either share or destroy them?īut, apologies to Dr. As Carl Sagan once said, “ Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic. And why not? Books share knowledge, inflame emotions, inspire revolutions, and look fantastic on the shelf. By Kim Hyun Sook, Ko Hyun-Ju, and Ryan EstradaĪlongside guns, flags, and cats, few things spark people’s passions more than books. ![]()
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