Citizen 13660 – forgotten gem of graphic literature
Every now and then you stumble across something and think, "Why isn't this considered a landmark in its field?" Citizen 13660, published in 1946, is one of those things. It's not quite a comic, but should be hailed among the important works of graphic literature. Somehow, though, despite being an avid comic/graphic novel reader, this has slipped under my radar and the radar of every other fan of the comic medium I know. That's too bad. This deserves to be widely known in such circles. In 1946, just after spending time in two internment camps, Japanese-American Miné Okubo published…