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In a 2019 interview with the webzine DC in the 80s, Jeff Lemire (b.
1976) discusses the comics he read as a child growing up in Essex
County, Ontario-his early exposure to reprints of Silver Age DC
material, how influential Crisis on Infinite Earths and DC's Who's
Who were on him as a developing comics fan, his first reading of
Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns, and his transition to reading
the first wave of Vertigo titles when he was sixteen. In other
interviews, he describes discovering independent comics when he
moved to Toronto, days of browsing comics at the Beguiling, and
coming to understand what was possible in the medium of comics,
lessons he would take to heart as he began to establish himself as
a cartoonist. Many cartoonists deflect from questions about one's
history with comics and the influences of other artists, while
others indulge the interviewer briefly before attempting to steer
the questions in another direction. But Lemire, creator of Essex
County Trilogy, Sweet Tooth, The Nobody, and Trillium, seems to
bask in these discussions. Before he was ever a comics
professional, he was a fan. What can be traced in these interviews
is the story of the movement from comics fan to comics
professional. In the twenty-nine interviews collected in Jeff
Lemire: Conversations, readers see Lemire come to understand the
process of collaboration, the balancing act involved in working for
different kinds of comics publishers like DC and Marvel, the
responsibilities involved in representing characters outside his
own culture, and the possibilities that exist in the comics medium.
We see him embrace a variety of genres, using each of them to
explore the issues and themes most important to him. And we see a
cartoonist and writer growing in confidence, a working professional
coming into his own.
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I Go Pogo
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Walt Kelly
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American comics from the start have reflected the white supremacist
culture out of which they arose. Superheroes and comic books in
general are products of whiteness, and both signal and hide its
presence. Even when comics creators and publishers sought to
advance an antiracist agenda, their attempts were often undermined
by a lack of awareness of their own whiteness and the ideological
baggage that goes along with it. Even the most celebrated figures
of the industry, such as Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Jack
Jackson, William Gaines, Stan Lee, Robert Crumb, Will Eisner, and
Frank Miller, have not been able to distance themselves from the
problematic racism embedded in their narratives despite their
intentions or explanations. Bandits, Misfits, and Superheroes:
Whiteness and Its Borderlands in American Comics and Graphic Novels
provides a sober assessment of these creators and their role in
perpetuating racism throughout the history of comics. Josef Benson
and Doug Singsen identify how whiteness has been defined,
transformed, and occasionally undermined over the course of eighty
years in comics and in many genres, including westerns, horror,
crime, funny animal, underground comix, autobiography, literary
fiction, and historical fiction. This exciting and groundbreaking
book assesses industry giants, highlights some of the most
important episodes in American comic book history, and demonstrates
how they relate to one another and form a larger pattern, in
unexpected and surprising ways.
The perfect book for any budding manga artist! Learn to draw manga
from scratch, and get a crash course in creating your own
characters, worlds and stories with the help of this guided
sketchbook. Get started with easy step-by-step instructions for
drawing manga facial features and bodies. Next, put your new-found
drawing skills into practice, with guidance on developing a scene
and planning your storyline. There's plenty of open space in each
section to fill with your sketches, along with advice on the best
materials to use, and expert tips on perfecting your technique
throughout. In no time at all, you will gain the skills and
confidence needed to start creating your very own manga.
In May 1989, Dwaine Tinsley stood at the summit of an unlikely
career. The product of a broken, trailer-trash marriage, he was a
high school dropout who had decided to become a professional
cartoonist while serving a six-year sentence in a Maryland prison
for burglary. As cartoon editor for Larry Flynt's notorious Hustler
magazine, he had assembled a staff of pen-and-Wite-Out-wielding
Lenny Bruces whose unprecedentedly offensive socio-sexual cartoons
had spearheaded that publication's fight against the forces of
censorship and repression that sought to overthrow the political
and cultural gains of the 1960s. His primary personal contribution
spawned amidst a national hysteria that saw a plague of child
sexual abuse arising everywhere from pre-school staffs to satanic
sects was "Chester the Molester," a hulking middle-aged man who
craved pre-pubescent girls. And then Tinsley's teenage daughter
accused him of sexually violating her over the course of five
years. And the prosecution in his ensuing criminal trial cast
several storage boxes full of his cartoons against him. Most
Outrageous is the story of the trial of Dwaine Tinsley as well as
the story of Tinsley's family life. Bob Levin's writings have
established him as one of the most thought-provoking chroniclers of
cartoonists today. While focusing upon the work and lives of the
most offbeat creators in the field in order to champion the pursuit
of individual vision, no matter how unorthodox or inflammatory, he
has explored issues common to artists of every medium. Most
Outrageous carries his search onto new, unsettling ground.
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