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POPSGeorge Carlin irreverent comedian dies Now he's probably working on a new routine with Richard Pryor, and Lenny Bruce. He was Honest, and hit some nerves that needed hitting. Sometimes the truth hurts, until you work out it's generally the same for everyone else. We're all in this together warts and all. Too many people wont talk about the Elephant in the living room. (but they're all worried that the elephant might want to use the bathroom.) George liked to tickle the elephant
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POPSGetting Out: An Interface for Domestic Interventions "Getting Out" is a phrase used by women caught in situations of domestic violence. Publisher and editor Rahel Anne Bailie details the background, the process and the societal drivers behind the creation of this comic book to help Native American women understand their rights, and how to break the pattern of abuse. "Comics for Consumer Communication: Reaching Users with Word and Image"
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POPSGarfield minus Garfield Jon Arbuckle sans Garfield. Yes, it's the Garfield strip with all the pictures of Garfield removed. Very weird and trippy.
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POPSIndian Artists Free to Express Their Own Culture: Virgin Comics After decades of outsourcing and emulating the West, artists finally feel free to do what they want and share their culture with the rest of the world. "You can't handle that kind of freedom all of a sudden. So it takes about three to four months of time to adjust." "Because it's been built upon an outsourcing model...we do a tremendous amount of unlearning."
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POPSTed Rall is America's BS detector (he's got his hands full) Ted Rall (born 1963 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is a liberal columnist and syndicated editorial cartoonist whose political cartoons often appear in a multi-panel comic-strip format. Ted Rall's Work Style Rall is one of a new breed of editorial cartoonists who began in the alternative weeklies during the 1980s and early 1990s with wordy, abstractly drawn strips about politics and social issues. His abstract drawing style reflects a distinct break from the cross-hatched style developed by Jeff MacNelly during the 1960s, a house style that had become virtually synonymous with American editorial cartooning. CLICK THIS LINK http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/19/Rallcartn.png To see a Ted Rall cartoon depicting John Kerry and George W. Bush. Bush is always portrayed as Generalissimo El Busho - a vicious military dictator - in Rall's comics.
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POPSGraphic novels and manga- helping teens get in to college The most important part of the whole thing is the readers connection to the literature. Lots of people are visual learners, so it is is natural for many to find "comics" easier to read as the illustrations and physical print help create or lend to the atmosphere of the story or text. I do think however instead of switching full force into using graphic novels and manga, we need to find ways to help students make connections to other literary forms, because there is undoubtedly lots of information and stories that teens would and could enjoy if they just got a chance to experience them.
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POPSGeek vs. Nerd vs. Dork I don't know if I agree with everything in here, but the list is pretty spot on for the most part... I definitely define myself as a geek, and match up pretty well with that here :)
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POPSHarvey Pekar on David Letterman Everyone seems to be in love with David Letterman nowadays because he has spoken out against the Bush administration and Fox news. But here he comes off not good at all. (Hervey Pekar is the author of the American Splendor comic; he antagonized David Letterman for criticizing GE for its anti-union activities on his show)
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POPSWill Eisner: The Genius of American Comics I wanted to clip some of Will Eisner's works but of course they are copyrighted and not available online. But I recommend everyone: please buy and do read all of Eisner's graphic novels. He (passed away in January 2005) was the genius of American comics and in his works you can find the "human elements" of the American history and the Jewish culture with all its great and warm details. Especially " A Contract With God ", "The Building", " Dropsie Avenue ", "Fagin the Jew", " To the Heart of The Storm " and "The Invisible People" are highly recommended. For a detailed bio of Eisner, click here , and for his official home page, click here . Do yourself a favor and go meet this great story-teller and artist, if you haven't already.
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POPSNazi fanboy takes on Superman, 1940 In 1940 a German Nazi, offended by a Superman comic where he defeats the Third Reich, saw fit to write a critique of the Man of Steel. It's kind of like a wierd amalgam of fanboy screeds on the Internet and Mein Kampf . You'll have to click on the link for the whole thing (the English translation is copyrighted so I couldn't clip it all). Via a stupid article on ABC News .
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POPSNYT article on comic book legend Alan Moore -Alan Moore seems really pissed off at DC comics and Hollywood. I never really got into Moore. I liked Watchmen , didn't get From Hell , and I hated League of Extraordinary Gentlemen . EDIT: Via Savage Critics http://www.comixexperience.com/savblog/2006/03/remember-remember.html
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