ANNE FRANK (September 2010)

Who hasn't read the Diary of Anne Frank?

Her story has been already adapted in many forms and it would have been a shame that those many adaptations would prevent or shy people away from the original diary (which, contrary to popular belief, has been the subject of many different editions, each heavily supervised to , for exemple, edit sex-oriented content, present in the original diary)

As with the previous book published by Hill & Wang (9/11 and his "sequels"), we face a big perfectly produced book, that we can put in a new kind of category, the "educational" comics.

The main purpose here is probably not to propose an opportunity to attract the people who may have suprisingly pass on the Diary during their school days, but to propose something more than the diary, something complimentary.

The diary part takes in fact only 1/3 of this book. It grant us wth a very interesting introduction, explaining the life of the Franks before Anne would start her diary, and  with a recap of the (doomingly short) events following the end of the diary, after the Franks were sent to death camps.

All of this in comics form, with an astonishingly lightness in the way the clear yet still emotionnal art of Ernie Colon impose itself to the reader. Sid Jacobson, in full collaboraiton with the House of Anne Frank really took on the challenge of confronting such an universal classic.

Foreign editions have been florishing so far, with France being the black lamb of the list: Editions Belin were supposed to release it, but after many postponing, I think it's safe to say that the Belin edition will probably never see the ight of day...

With this book, Ernie Colon putted again, at the almost respectable age of 80,  a major stone in the garden of his career.

Hill and Wang published ANNE FRANK
Sid JACOBSON wrote it (139p)
Ernie COLON lettered, colored and drew it  and its cover!