The Crow: When Fantasy Manages Trauma
How the 1989 comic book by James O’Barr expressed real-life tragedy through gothic fantasy and what happened when it met the Hollywood machine
Fantasy, according to Ursula K. Le Guin, “is a different approach to reality, an alternative technique for apprehending and coping with existence.”1 The genre speaks the timeless language of symbols and metaphor, of strange transformations and grail quests and Big Bad Wolves. Such alle…