{"id":20293,"date":"2019-06-17T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=20293"},"modified":"2019-06-13T21:20:20","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T21:20:20","slug":"speechless-world-history-without-words-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2019\/06\/17\/speechless-world-history-without-words-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Speechless – World History without Words"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Polyp<\/strong> (New Internationalist\/Friends of the Earth International)
\nISBN: 978-1-906523-19-0 (Multilingual edition!)<\/p>\n

No one can contest or dispute the sheer naked power and immediacy of pictures. A sequential narrative can muster all the force of a Perfect Storm and target hearts and minds the way no manner of high-tech, satellite-enhanced laser-directed ordnance or poorly worded plebiscite ever could\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Hopefully this startlingly bold pictorial treatise from the enigmatic and exceedingly talented Polyp (www.polyp.org.uk<\/a>) can still shake a few entrenched bastions and rattle some cages as it offers an alternative view of our progress as a species, using the monstrous tragedy of 9\/11 as its starting point before scrolling back to the very beginning to show how it all went so wrong for us talking apes\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

In vivid primary colours, a jaundiced look at our 6 billion-year relationship with the planet -and the mistakes we keep on making – unfolds with wry, surreal wit, patient exasperation and not a little frantic desperation as our guides and companions. The delivery system is a boldly accessible cartoon style that blends a thousand childhood influences from Vaughn Bode to The Clangers<\/strong>, all the while whispering a warning and offering some few potentially last-minute suggestions via unforgettable imagery.<\/p>\n

As it says on the cover, this book eschews words in favour of a broad humorous parade of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153dumb-show\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and mime: a brave and marvellously effective technique that really pays off. And besides, as a species we’ve been talking a good fight for ages and we’re now at a stage where words simply aren’t enough anymore\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

The old adage has it that history is written by the winners, but in this graphic exploration on how the world got into its current state, we have a sharp, incisive and universal tome produced for those of us that have always demanded a recount – and almost probably not, no, never, a new referendum. Buy this book. Give copies to your friends. But most of all read, inwardly digest and just do something. It’s a dead cert those we’ve let make the rules for us so far won’t\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6
\n\u00c2\u00a9 Paul Fitzgerald 2009. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Polyp (New Internationalist\/Friends of the Earth International) ISBN: 978-1-906523-19-0 (Multilingual edition!) No one can contest or dispute the sheer naked power and immediacy of pictures. A sequential narrative can muster all the force of a Perfect Storm and target hearts and minds the way no manner of high-tech, satellite-enhanced laser-directed ordnance or poorly worded … <\/p>\n

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