Archive for November, 2009
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A request to new visitors to the site: (welcome!) on the right hand toolbar is a chipin widget that I’m using to get pre-orders for a hard copy, full-colour 32p comic about US intervention in central america – featuring both parts of the Honduran Coup: A Graphic History as published in Alternet and the Huffington Post. Read more about it on the chipin page I’ve created here.
For $5 (plus $2 shipping in the US and $4 overseas) you’ll get a copy of the comic as well as your name printed in the back, along with all the other donors to the project. We’re already well on the way (see the total) and payment is via paypal so totally safe. Be part of a group project to help raise awareness and produce an educational tool that will have a lasting impact.
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After predictably contradictory voting results were relayed from Honduras after yesterday’s elections, once again it falls to the Honduras Coup 2009 blog to provide cogent analysis of the entire farce.
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With two days to go before the elections in Honduras, now is as good time as any to clue yourself up on the situation on the ground via the following blogs: www.quotha.net, Honduras Coup 2009 (with a must-read introduction outlining why it would have been impossible for Zelaya to be extending his term, as his detractors keep repeating), and Honduras Resists! – you’ll recognize their banner image from the panel in today’s extract. As ever, if you want a hard copy of the Honduran comic to happen, please pre-order here or the chipin widget to the right and be part of a grassroots effort to raise awareness about US foreign policy – all for $5.
Also, check out ExpressBuzz.com (a South Indian online magazine)’s article on my Diego Garcia and Honduras comic here. According to reporter Amish Mulmi, “what Archer has done is to recreate history in a new medium, an alternate history that delves into the wrongs that superpowers may have committed and the consequences of those errors in today’s world.”
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The follow-up to the Honduran Coup: a graphic history that I’m serializing above is now up at the Huffington Post. Click here to read it. Please digg/facebook/retweet the link once you have!
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Commondreams.org have posted my graphic history of the US base on Diego Garcia on their homepage, which you can check out here. Meanwhile here’s the next instalment of the Honduran coup comic – click previous to skip back to the start.
For those of you interested in a hard copy of the Honduran coup comic, I’ve installed a widget in the sidebar to the right through Chipin, which is a way of getting online donations through paypal. Click here to visit my Chipin page. Basically, I need you to pay for your copy ($5) of the comic upfront, in order to cover print and distro costs – as a bonus, you’ll get your name printed in tha back of an educational tool (32pages, full colour) that will be sent to libraries, NGOs, activist networks to raise awareness of the true nature of US involvement in Central America. Please spread the word so I can make a hard copy happen.
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At last, here’s the promised follow-up I’ve been working on, in a slightly different format from usual. From now on I’ll post comix in a tier by tier format (1-3 panels at a time) as opposed to whole pages. This piece is also the first time I’ve used first hand reporting from a journalist in Tegucigalpa, so thanks to Joe Shansky of Pulsemedia.org, who is the narrator in the panel above, and whose article, ‘Smashing the Silence: Community Defiance in Honduras’ I turned into comics for the first part of this piece.
In case you missed it, here’s the link to a recent radio interview I did on the Honduran coup comic that aired on KALW news recently. In other news, my Diego Garcia comic is going up online at Commondreams.org soon, and will be appearing in the forthcoming anthology ‘Salon Des Refusés’. More details when I have them.
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Comics on the Radio, Comics for Sharing and the Future of Journalism?
November 12th, 2009 |Posted In: News
I had my interview for KALW’s Crosscurrent’s show yesterday on the Honduran Coup graphic history, the role of comics in the news and how new media can help foster grass-roots activism. It’ll be broadcast next Weds (the 18th) at 5pm Pacific, giving listeners enough time to get indignant about the Honduran election that’s slated to go ahead on the 29th. Whilst there, Holly Kernan, the News Director, told me about a new online project to encourage community-sponsored journalism, spot.us. It’s a fantastic site, only a year old, that allows journalists to pitch a story to the public in order to secure funding through micro-payments. Sadly it’s limited to local news coverage at the moment, so no ties to Honduras, but I have a number of other pitches on the back burner.
I’ve also had emails about difficulties with sharing specific comics via email – as opposed to sending the link to the gallery page, so here’s an experiment: I’ll post the Diego Garcia comic as a gallery post below and you should be able to share it around by clicking the twitter/fbook/digg etc tabs below. Let me know if it works. Honduran follow-up is 2/3 done! Keep coming back for updates and I’ll let you know when the ink’s dry on the last page.
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Now that we’ve reached the end of the Diego Garcia comic, it’ll be a few days before I post more finished comics up as I return to the drawing board and my thumbnails for some other projects – one involving Harvey Pekar. If you’re hungry for more comics, then head to the COMIX page, where you’ll a selection to choose from, including one on the Prop 8 protests in California last year – timely, given what’s just happened in Maine. If that’s still not enough, then stop by the store, order some hard copies, and I’ll ship them to wherever you are in the world.
A date in your diaires: I’ll be on KALW local public radio next Weds, Nov 11, talking about comics journalism and developments in Honduras. I’ll post a link to the show when it’s up.
Speaking of which, after cautious celebrations of an agreement in Honduras, people are beginning to smell a rat at the small print hidden in the US-brokered deal, which sees the US recognizing the upcoming elections regardless of whether Manuel Zelaya is reinstated. The staunchly republican Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) states: ” I take our administration at their word that they will now side with the Honduran people and end their focus on the disgraced Zelaya”. So much for Zelaya’s proposed non-binding consultation that got him into all this trouble in the first place then. Read the full statement here. This from the man who today also campaigned to keep Guantanamo in use for another year, where the prisoners are “by all accounts …being treated better than any prisoner in American jails”.
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Here’s the tragic end to the Diego Garcia story, which covers up the House of Lords’ decision a year ago to deny the Chagossians the right to return to their homeland. Speaking of tragic outcomes, after a massive turnout in Maine, prop 1 was passed yesterday banning same-sex marriage in the state. I’m thinking of doing a piece on the money trail behind the yes campaign – which also worked in California, so stay tuned.
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