Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow?
by Brian Fies rails against what Fies calls the “a broken promise” at the heart of the “millennial complaint, “˜Where’s my flying car and jetpack?’” The Author’s Note lays out the basic thesis: Fies grew up believing in the utopian future presented in Space-Age mass-market American culture, and feels the actual future didn’t live up to his” and his generation’s” expectations. Optimism has been replaced by cynicism; World of Tomorrow is, Fies tells us, “an appreciation of, and an argument for” the creative, ambitious, inspirational, and romantic future he believed” and believes” in.
Detail from Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow © 2009 Brian Fies
Today on Graphic Novel Review, our own John Barber looks at Brian Fies’ sophomore effort, the follow-up to his Eisner Award winning first book, Mom’s Cancer
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