Aaron here today with A Vernacular of File Formats; The False Grandmother; Joe Sacco: SJW; Still and Moving Images; Kirby/Slash; Sara Lautman Comics; EX-VOTO
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Glitch artist Rosa Menkman’s discourse on what is lost, distorted, and potentially gained by these technologies we find surrounding ourselves, circa 2010.
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Turturro Reads Calvino Online (with accompanying images by Kevin Ruelle)
As our present reality grows every more unreal, there may be no writer more fitting to read that Italo Calvino. Calvino was most famous for his fabulist fiction, works of literary fiction inspired by fairy tales — a form he studied and collected in the 1956 book Italian Folktales.
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Galvanizing Social Justice Through Comics
As part of the University of Michigan’s Penny Stamps Lecture Series:
Leading graphic historical novelist Joe Sacco will chronicle how and why he uses the graphic novel format to catalyze social justice and human rights struggles in the US and around the world.
Thursday, January 19, 5:10-6:30pm at the Michigan Theater, 603 E Liberty St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104. Hopefully he’ll talk about BUMF as well.
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Film and Comics: Mutually Exclusive, or Exclusively Mutual?
Allan Haverholm talks about The Hulk and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, split screens, paneling, juxtaposition, and good stuff like that.
The juxtaposed split screens in Hulk only serve as disturbances in that they try to emulate complicated comics (page) layouts that are not easily conveyed in moving images. Instead, we shall move on to a more surprising, more challenging, and eventually more successful implementation of comics formalities in film:
Long story short: the element of split screens emulating comics page elements disturb rather than add to the storytelling, taking the viewer out of the natural immersion of believing in the (rather surreal) narrative of an irradiated, superpowered green giant.
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KIRBY/SLASH
Andrei Molotiu has some pretty sweet Jack Kirby pages put into context with other artists and their art. Very artistic!
Image below: Jack Kirby + Hannah Hoch
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Sara Lautman is the featured Diarist this week at The Comics Journal.
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The Vivid Violence and Divine Healing of Ex-Voto Paintings
Allison Meier looks at religious artwork at the Hyperallergic blog:
In 19th-century Mexico, the content of ex-votos stayed the same — a depiction of the accident, illness, or misfortune in question, along with the intervening saint or other heavenly presence — but the materials changed. There were fewer canvases and more works on tin. Rather than meticulous, idealized scenes, ex-votos became theatrical and free-form, often created by self-taught artists. By the 20th century, contemporary artists were drawn to this dramatic folk art. Alexxa Gotthardt at Artsy recently described how Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo collected Mexican votive paintings, many of which are now on view in the Museo Frida Kahlo in Mexico City. Kahlo owned over 400 ex-voto paintings, and one of a woman who survived being stabbed in bed is said to have inspired her bloody 1935 “A Few Small Nips.”
Take a look to see your favorite sky-god smiling down at the calamities they have caused for you.
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Here’s Connor Willumsen talking about his book Portraits while teaching a workshop in England in autumn of 2016. Get a copy of the book HERE!
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Suzy and Cecil – 1-10-2017 – by Sally Ingraham
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Joanie and Jordie – 1-10-2017 – by Caleb Orecchio
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1-10-2017 – by Juan Fernández