Archive for November, 2008
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Start at the beginning of this comic by clicking on the right hand nav bar link.The action has now moved to Chile and the CIA station where Field Agents Henry Hecksher and David Atlee Phillips are directing the CIA’s misinformation campaign against Allende.
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What a week it’s been. I just got my hands on the comics anthology Paper TV, which was created by the class I taught earlier this semester at 826 Valencia, Dave Eggers’ Writing Center down in the Mission, and looks pretty damn awesome. I’ve also been interviewed in the December issue of The Other Side Magazine, so prepare to pounce on that next month all you Londoners. AND I’ve got a piece in the Spring edition of Memoir (and), which is a literary journal specializing in creative non-fiction. The piece is a colloboration I did with a friend of mine (nice one Olly) about gang violence in Nigeria. You can read it in the Comix section on this very site.
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Start at the beginning of this comic by clicking on the right hand nav bar link. This scene depicts the meeting between Richard Helms, Director of the CIA, President Nixon, Secretary of State Kissinger and Attorney General John Helms as they discuss the use of counter-intelligence to stop Salvador Allende’s inauguration as President of Chile in September 1970. The portrait of the Indian is taken from an actual painting hanging in the White House of an indigenous Indian Chieftain, which I thought would serve as a subtle hubristic reminder to the assembled gang of plotters.
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You know the drill by now – click on the right hand menu to go to the first page of this story about the 1973 Chilean coup. And thanks for reading! Any comments appreciated.
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Start at the beginning of the story about the Chilean Coup of 1973 by clicking the link on the right hand nav bar. Thanks for reading!
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Start at the beginning of the story by clicking the link on the right hand nav bar. Thanks for reading!
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Last week was beyond hectic. A whirlwind tour of the East Coast, taking in Vermont, Greenwich and NYC, followed by a stint hosting the Center for Cartoon Studies‘ table at San Francisco’s Alternative Press Expo. Here’s a photo of me at the table looking as primed as you can be after a non-sleep redeye the night before.
As well as manning the table, along with CCS students and alumni (thanks Gabby, Kenny, Denis, Colleen, Emilie and Lauren!) I ran a colour workshop with Jenny Hansen, veteran color designer who has worked on shows like Happy Tree Friends and Batman: the animated series. Jenny waxed lyrical about using value, hue and varied palettes to creating and emphasizing mood in comics, and I was humbled to have her colour one of my panels as part of the live demo, which you can see here.
Last but not least, here’s a caricature of Karl Marx strutting about like Mick Jagger that I did for a friend’s housewarming last night. No nods to the President Obama being a socialist thankyouverymuch. Cheers for the party Nikil and Shannon!
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Next page from my strip on the Chilean Coup of 1973, and the shadowy US involvement behind the scenes. This introduction takes places at the Chicago School of Economics, where budding Chilean economists were brought from the mid-50s onwards to be influenced by Milton Friedman’s passionate enthusiasm of the free market and laissez-faire capitalism.
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