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Call it a multilevel challenge! Read a book that
deconstructs itself as it entertains, and makes you think at the same time. The
Rise of Super Santa, the first tome of an over 400 hundred-pages-each trilogy,
written by Mookie Spitz and illustrated with more drawings than in a children’s
book, by Rusty Yunusoff, comes at a time of transformation into a dystopian
reality. One of fake news, climate-caused extermination, extreme corruption,
and lethal viruses.
The plot?
A teenager catches Santa placing presents underneath the family Christmas tree,
and instead of being elated, tells Santa that he is uncool. Realizing that
today’s children love their Superheroes more than anything. Santa decides that
if he can’t beat them, he’ll join them…
The intrigue? Who is Super Santa?
The truth
might surprise and inspire as much as the book itself.
Call it surreal. Super Santa is a book populated by
fictional characters in the real world as well as true people in imaginary
scenarios, all blended by polished language, fun dialogues and deep reflections
on the American people, their culture, and values.
Call it a prolific essay seasoned with humor,
creativity and boldness. Or else, a cartoon-like easy-to-read novel about
family, tradition, myths on one side, and on the same side, a world where super
heroes take the place of deities and consumerism becomes their catechism.
As the two policemen in the book phrase it: “The pages
of Super Santa fly with their unique humor, whimsy and cynicism. Blending
reality with fantasy, passion with frivolity, gratitude with irreverence, the
illustrated adventure is the homage of the authors to 21st Century America, a
land of amazing opportunities, and endless contradictions.”
A early reader stated: “It takes a Jew and a Muslim to
come up with the next Christmas classic and marvel at this strange,
paradoxical, and amazing experiment called the United States of America.
In fact, Mookie is a first generation American with
Hungarian parents, and Rusty is a Ukrainian émigré with Tatar parents. Both
learned English by watching TV, and movies, and absorbing the language,
history, and values of America through pop culture and multimedia. But, at the
same time, a vast universal, technological and even scientific knowledge
permeates all along their book.
The reader can be amazed by simply viewing the
illustrations, but will also find references to an immense variety of
significant writers, history facts, and flashbacks to songs, jingles, games,
shows, and situations. Not much of the American way of life escapes from the
pages of Super Santa. A present for every reader, or “gifts” as the
authors chose to name each one of the, so far, 60 chapters.
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