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Noam Chomsky Supports Parecomic Documentary Graphic Novel
Posted: March 12, 2012
News in from Japan-based Scottish Sean Michael Wilson, editor of Top Shelf’s excellent AX Anthology, about his exciting new project, Parecomic: Michael Albert and the Story of Participatory Economics. Sean explains that this documentary graphic novel with artist Carl Thompson “... is about something that affects us all: the system we live in - what’s wrong with it, and how we might be able change it for the better! The recent upsurge in popular protest in the USA and around the world shows that people are not happy with the state of things. The Occupy movements show us that many people would prefer a better system, a model that will work for the 99%, not just the 1%.”
Sean explains further: “It’s being published by Seven Stories Press, a social issues NY publisher who put out Michael Albert’s Remembering Tomorrow biography. Our graphic version draws on Michael’s own story, his political ideas and experiences to present a picture of not just one man’s life as a left wing activist, but also wider ideas of anti-capitalism, socialism, anarchism, and what kind of alternative society there is open to us. It’s written by myself, with the close help and permission of Michael Albert. Respected critic Noam Chomsky has agreed to write the intro.”
You can support it as well through Kickstarter to make it into print. To find out more, to watch a video all about it, and to pledge something if you like the Parecomic project, check out here at Kickstarter. Here’s a sample below and you can also read the first four pages online on Sean’s blog. This publication is an ideal vehicle for communicating Albert’s urgent, timely information through the uniquely accessible medium of the graphic novel.
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