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mailing list archive - Re: [ejlist] EJ and "bande dessine"

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>Does anyone now if Junger made any appointments on comic >books (authors
like Hugo Pratt for instance). 

No reference whatsoever by Juenger. But he liked to draw himself (see the
illustrations in Francois Lagarde's "Photo Album": p. 8, 175, 182). 

>Or does anyone know of any comic book author that quotes EJ?

There exists an "anti-Juenger" comic strip called "Antaia - Ernst Juenger's
Muse", drawn and written by the German artist Alfred von Meysenbug. It
formed part of the "Streit-Zeit-Schrift," a pamphlet by authors of the Left
and extreme Left all critical of Juenger that was published in September
1968. Meysenbug's comic strip is very short (just 6 panels or so) and is
partly reproduced on p. 257 of Heimo Schwilk's reader "Ernst Juenger. Leben
und Werk in Bildern und Texten" (Klett-Cotta, 1988). The political message
is pretty crass, but I quite like the look of it as Meysenbug's style
reveals a strong pop-art influence (typical of the time then). 




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