Sorry, but that preview for Judenhass is disgusting.
Haus already mentioned that Sim seems to think that the real horror of the Holocaust is that it might have claimed all his favorite comics writers and artists, but it's worth pointing out again. This is a man who will state, in all sincerity, that he could never hate Jews because they created the comics industry. It's not enough that they are human beings, oh no. It's all about what the Jews have done for him, Dave Sim, unappreciated genius. Why, had all those lovely Jews who created the first comics been killed, the world may have been denied Cerebus the Aardvark! I could puke.
His animated preview spends over half of its time listing every award Sim ever received. That would still be incredibly tacky if he was doing a comic about happy red airplanes, but he's making a comic about the fucking holocaust. Sim can't even reign in his bloated ego for five minutes and leave the spotlight his so-very-important story. He gives us a couple minutes to let the horror of Auschwitz sink in, then it's five minutes of "Hey, lookit me, I'm Dave Sim! Did you know I wrote the longest comic story of all time? As long as you don't count any Japanese comics, of course! Oh, oh, check out my awards! I sure am a great genius, ain't I?" It's sickening.
Sim doesn't leave much time in his preview outside of fluffing himself, but he does make a point of dismissing those who died in the concentration camps who weren't Jewish. See, the holocaust is a Jewish thing, so bringing up the gentiles who died is just bad form and probably antisemitism, oops, I mean Judenhass. I'm sure the fact that the others included leftists and homosexuals has nothing to do with it. Speaking of which, do you suppose he'll try to make a distinction between hating the other when that other is Jewish, and hating the other when that other is female, left-wing, or "extremist" Muslim (where extremist equals Arab or Persian, apparently)? If he does, the book might be worth buying. And when I say "buy," I mean "download from piratebay." |
