Carel Moiseiwitsch, Flash Marks, Fantagraphics Books (1989).
This short story collection collects a group of blistering, alarmist comics that grew out of Moiseiwitsch's immersion in the left-wing activist milieu in Canada. The outraged pieces here are laid down with a passion made material in flurries of slashing mark-making and inky blackness in the best tradition of agit-prop.
The critics: "It's obvious that Carel Moiseiwitsch's art is overtly political, but isn't it also true that the same thing could be said about every single art work ever created? Why don't we say it then? As Ariel Dorfman so aptly put it (The Empire’s Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds, Pantheon Books, 1983: 192; translation by Clark Hansen): "To go against the grain is political; to flow with it is entertainment.""
--Domingos Isabelinho, "The Return of the Prodigal Daughter: Carel Moiseiwitsch's This Is a True Story - Coda," The Crib Sheet, January 19, 2009.
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