Superheroes come to the Foundling museum
A museum that owes its origins to supporting orphans is taking a look at how orphans are represented in comic strips.
Ranging from the more obvious to us, such as Superman and Batman, there’s also ordinary people, such as shown in Gasoline Alley, a long-running serial about life in America, and children surviving in post WW2 Japan.It’s a collection of stories that start with the trauma, of being abandoned, but turns that into tales of how they overcome difficulties and become heroes
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