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Joe Staton Draws Ayn Rand

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Joe Staton Draws Ayn Rand

The work of Ayn Rand has influenced comic books from The Question to Watchmen to All Star Superman, sometimes directly, sometimes as comment upon, sometimes satirically, as in my own favourite, Elvis Shrugged.

But now we're getting a direct-to-graphic novel adaptation, as the short story Anthem is adapted by Charles Santino and classic seventies artiost Joe Staton, currently drawing the Dick Tracy daily strip.

The original story is a wary tale set five hundred (then, six hundred) years in the future, focused on a street sweeper in a world whose every decision is made by committees instead of individuals, indeed, individualism is against the law.

I get the feeling they may be able to sell this one to the Tea Partiers, don't you?

The book is published by New American Library.

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