The interesting thing about this, is it show the cage she (I) was in, emotionally and mentally. Not know how to BE a part of the world, and so all the mess and everything was simply going on inside her head.
It’s still weird to think how this all was written backwards. I went to Europe, took notes and reference pictures, and THEN had her buy the ticket AFTER I got back. Makes my own memory’s timeline a bit wonky.
When I was dating a nurse, she used to say that last place she’d want to be when sick was in the hospital.
I like “appetizer sized hats” as a description of yarmulkes. I think it’s childlike (and hopefully not offensive).
Actually, if i recall, when the strip first ran, someone pointed out (correctly) that they were Internment camps, not concentration camps. But I decided not to change it. I think it’s simply using a more PC word. Cocnentration camps are “a place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities,” which from all i read is accurate. It is true, part of the definition is, “sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution.” They weren’t held for mass executions like in Germany, although I am unsure of the forced labor issue.
Anyhow. Doesn’t matter. Bruno called it that, and she is not always 100% accurate.