Today Friday at San Diego Comic Con

Today I will be doing an important panel at 1:00 to 2:00 on a project that I and Rafael Medoff and myself and Continuity Productions and Disney Education have been working on called “They Spoke Out”. This is probably one of the most important pieces of work that I have worked on in my career.
“They Spoke Out is a series of motion comic videos profiling Americans of all faiths who spoke out against the Nazi genocide for a Disney DVD that debuts at San Diego Comic-Con.  Room 4

“We’re not throwing the Holocaust at you,” says Adams. “We’re offering a way to help American kids experience the Holocaust through these videos, so they can make their own decisions as to how deeply they want to go into further study.”

Created by Disney Educational Productions and the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies in Washington, D.C., it features six 10-minute motion comic episodes illustrated and mostly narrated by Adams–best known for his dynamic style and work on Batman and X-Men–and written by Medoff, the Wyman Institute director and author of 14 books. The episodes blend traditional animation and comic book-style illustrations with newsreel footage, photographs, and historical documents.

The first episodes about Only five feet tall, Fiorello LaGuardia is considered to be one of the greatest mayors of New York City. Beyond that, he was an American who spoke out against Nazi oppression and hatred. Even when his sister, was incarcerated by the Nazis, he would not back down. He knew what was right…and what was wrong.