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When word got around, late last year, that the Canadian cartoonist Dave Sim was publishing a book about the Holocaust, the immediate reaction of some of his readers was to make a joke: “Is he for it or against it?” He’s against it, of course, but Sim is a dedicated contrarian, and as divisive a figure as any working in comics right now—he has passionate admirers and equally passionate detractors. Neither will be disappointed by Judenhass, a slim volume that Sim has published himself under his long-running Aardvark-Vanaheim imprint. It’s bracing and infuriating, a splendid accomplishment with disastrous flaws, a self-aggrandizing mess executed with riveting power. (via Nextbook: Reality Check)

When word got around, late last year, that the Canadian cartoonist Dave Sim was publishing a book about the Holocaust, the immediate reaction of some of his readers was to make a joke: “Is he for it or against it?” He’s against it, of course, but Sim is a dedicated contrarian, and as divisive a figure as any working in comics right now—he has passionate admirers and equally passionate detractors. Neither will be disappointed by Judenhass, a slim volume that Sim has published himself under his long-running Aardvark-Vanaheim imprint. It’s bracing and infuriating, a splendid accomplishment with disastrous flaws, a self-aggrandizing mess executed with riveting power. (via Nextbook: Reality Check)