{"id":1298,"date":"2005-01-12T07:31:16","date_gmt":"2005-01-12T15:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/01\/12\/comic-book-for-illegal-mexican-immigrants-turns-out-to-be-a-pamphlet\/"},"modified":"2005-01-12T07:31:16","modified_gmt":"2005-01-12T15:31:16","slug":"comic-book-for-illegal-mexican-immigrants-turns-out-to-be-a-pamphlet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1298","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Comic book&quot; for Illegal Mexican Immigrants turns out to be a pamphlet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a cartoonist, I was intrigued and excited to read on <a href=\"http:\/\/wnd.com\/news\/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42207\">World Net Daily <\/a>(a right-wing news site) that &#8220;The government of Mexico is raising eyebrows with a new comic book offering advice on how to cross the border into the U.S. illegally.&#8221; (Hat tip:  <a href=\"http:\/\/animatematters.blogspot.com\/2005\/01\/compassion-for-border-jumpers.html\">Animate Matters<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Imagine my disappointment when I did a little searching and discovered that the comic book in question is really more of a prose pamphlet with comic-book-style illustrations. Doesn&#8217;t World Net Daily realize that to be a true comic book, the pamphlet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.msu.edu\/comics\/director\/survresa.htm\">would have to feature <\/a>images in deliberate sequence forming a narrative?<\/p>\n<p>Scroll to the bottom of this page to <a href=\"http:\/\/cryptome.org\/mx\/mx-migrants.htm\">read the pamphlet <\/a>(translations are included). To my eye, the illustrations seem to have a strong Neal Adams influence, with touches of Al Williamson as well (look at the folds on the Dad&#8217;s blue shirt in the page on domestic violence, for example). A bit too much superhero influence &#8211; look at how overly buff the shirtless guys crossing the river are, for example, or the woman&#8217;s ridiculously tight dress on the &#8220;you have rights!&#8221; page.<\/p>\n<p>Still, a good first effort. I hope the Mexican government expands into publishing full-fledged comics in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a cartoonist, I was intrigued and excited to read on World Net Daily (a right-wing news site) that &#8220;The government of Mexico is raising eyebrows with a new comic book offering advice on how to cross the border into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1298\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartooning-comics","category-international-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}