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Notable New York, This Week 10/12-10/18
MONDAY, October 12, 2009 – SUNDAY, October 18, 2009This week in New York, The New Yorker Festival hits town. And yes, while the “Humor Revue,” “About Towns,” and “Kaffeeklatches” seem to have been sold...
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R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman Talk Comics
“Spider-Man, but with tits.” - Art SpiegelmanThere is a 2:1 bald-spot-to-ponytail ratio in Bass Concert Hall at the University of Texas. The man in front of me has a biblically voluminous beard and a...
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Arguably, no other story has been made to express absolute black and absolute white as clearly as World War II. So how can an artist integrate the textures of grey that make a story truly poignant?In...
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The Rumpus Interview with Françoise Mouly
Comics fans today live in the land Françoise Mouly conquered. Thirty-five years ago, Mouly emerged from underground comics to found, design, co-edit, and self-publish the seminal comics anthology Raw...
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The New York Comics and Picture-Story Symposium: Aidan Koch
The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work. Open to the public, it meets Tuesday nights 7-9 p.m. EST in New York...
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Fresh Comics #1: An Iranian Metamorphosis
Mana Neyestani (b. 1973) is an Iranian cartoonist, best known for his single panel political cartoons on Radio Zamaneh and in the short-lived newspaper Zan. In 2010, he received the Cartoonists Rights...
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Cartoonists tend to stick together because they have to; . . . their work is disproportionately singled out for suppression both abroad and in the U.S., while at the same time often regarded as not...
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Visiting Abandoned Places: A Conversation with Kristen Radtke
Complex and intriguing narratives are embedded into Kristen Radtke’s graphic (as in illustrated) memoir, Imagine Wanting Only This. A writer and illustrator with a MFA from the University of Iowa’s...
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What to Read When You Want to Remember World War II
On September 2, 1945, the Japanese signed the document officially ending World War II. Now, seventy-five years later, many of those who experienced this war are gone. Many of those who fought for this...
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