The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain

I'm pretty excited about a new graphic novel by Peter Sis, The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain. Sis tells his tale of being born Czechoslovakia during the cold war, growing up relatively happy, the tensions rising, and then "news from the West slowly filters into the country. Peter and his friends hear about blue jeans, Coca-Cola, beat poetry, rock 'n' roll,...and the Beatles!" (book flap). His world changed because of the media flowing into it, the messages that it contained, and the struggle to resist totalitarian control a second time. Much like Maus, this text uses the meduim to deliver a different message. Just like we've been talking about in class. How does that message change? Does it change?

Images from the book reproduced below. They are copyrighted, of course, and not to me. You can buy the book here.