![]() ![]() GEN deals with the trauma of the atom bomb without flinching." This really captures the effect that a book like GEN can have on a person. I will never forget the people dragging their own melted skin as the walk through the ruins of Hiroshima, the panic-stricken horse on fire galloping through the city, the maggots crawling out of the sores of a young girl's ruined face. I've found myself remembering images and events from the GEN books with a clarity that made them seem like memories from my own life, rather than Nakazawa's. "GEN burned its way into my heated brain with all the intensity of a fever-dream. ![]() ![]() In the introduction to BAREFOOT GEN, Art Spiegelman describes his experience reading this work as follows: ![]()
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