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Por fin – the spanish version of the Honduran Coup comic is now available on the COMIX page, and fingers crossed we’re one step closer to finding a home for it at an online Central American paper. Just been to an interesting talk about community building in Columbia as a way of tackling violence too, which may well trigger a Plan Columbia comic spotlight in the not too distant future. Thanks again for the continued interest in the comic – it’s now stocked at Columbia University (NYC)’s Latin American library and will be making its way to the eery-sounding Vault of Midnight comic store in Ann Arbor, MI.
Only a few more pages to go of the Honduran graphic history now. Plus I’ve just added a new comic to the COMIX section featuring a bay area activist group that goes by the name of ‘The Raging Grannies‘. The comic covers their guerrilla campaigning against Prop 8 almost a year ago though more recently they’ve re-invented themselves as ‘the billionaires for wealthcare’ – a group of pro-private health insurance lobbyists. We’ve now thumbnailed the first two pages of the Honduran follow-up, so keep checking back for details on when the finished artwork will be posted.
Check out the latest coverage of our graphic history of Honduras now featured at Operamundi.net, an online magazine from Brazil. We’re now working on a follow-up to our Honduran comic as well as laying out the spanish version, plus Nikil and I are being interviewed on cross currents radio next week, which I’ll post a link to when it’s up. Remember to check out the COMIX page if this is your first visit to the site and continue to post your comments. For links to the original guardian, alternet and Boing boing posts, click on the previous posts to the right. In solidarity, Dan.
Now the Guardian newspaper has picked up the Honduran comic, and given it a positive review to boot:
“A journalistic take on the Honduran crisis whose attention to context puts conventional media coverage to shame. By flipping the pages of history this graphic novel reminds us why the White House is dragging its heels.”
Meanwhile I’m working on a spanish translation of the comic whilst writing the blurb about my upcoming graphic novel, The Hard Hat Riots for Insomnia Publications. I’m also updating the COMIX section of the site, so check it out via the tabs at the top of this page to read the back catalogue of my work.
The piece is indebted to John Perry’s summation of the crisis in the August 6, 2009 issue of London Review of Books. Perry does a great job rooting the crisis in the continuing relationship between the United States and Honduras.
Maria Lohman of Somos Sur’s slideshow “Honduras: mas alla del golpe”
Honduras Coup 2009
Broadcasts from Democracy Now!
We’d also like to recognize the following sources for picture reference:
Susan Meiselas
Democracynow.org
BBC News
Thanks to all of you who’ve posted comments, tweets, or links to my graphic history of the Honduran coup (the above image is p2 of 7), the rest of which is posted here at Alternet. It was picked up by Boing Boing here and is also over at www.presente.org and The Daily Kos so check out the links and please boost the story up the ranking at Daily Kos so more people see it. It’s great to see it stimulating debate about the situation in Tegucigalpa, and we’re working on getting the sources up on at Alternet. If they’re not posted by tomorrow I’ll stick them up here.
For those of you new to the site, check out the COMIX page for an archive of my other journalistic work. And thanks to those of you who stopped by the Center for Cartoon Studies table at San Francisco’s Alternative Press Expo, where me and my mate Sam Carbaugh were hawking our wares. If you missed the chance to get your hands on copies of our comix, check out the STORE section above or visit Sam’s site here.
Here’s the first page of a graphic history of the Honduran Coup that’s been published online at Alternet – click here to read the whole story or on the thumbnails below.
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I can’t even remember the last time I posted so thank you my ever loyal web audience for hanging in there. I’ve just finished up teaching a 6-week comics course (2 classes a day, producing roughly 15 hand-drawn, inked and scanned 8-page minicomics every 10 days), the fruits of which (not to mention the labour) you can see below:
Subject-wise, we had (deep breath): evil pillows; talking dogs; mice catching live cheese; toxic gloop; a shelter for made-up creatures called ‘hubs’; a talking cat bent on taking over the world; meteors; robot beauty pageants; musclemen (of course); talking pillows
(obviously a pillow trend going around 5-6th graders); time machines;
vampires; talking muffins; fratricidal ghosts; talking flying fish;
mysterious packages containing penguins; cute campers who have to
butcher a bear to survive out in the woods; twin weiner dogs; a halo
take-off; insurance clerks; talking toast; a water droplet and a
transvestite called Gerald. That’s all off the top of my head.
Whilst that’s been going on we’ve also -almost-managed to put to bed the Stanford Graphic Novel’s latest oeuvre. An amazing graphic novel set in one of the DR Congo’s National parks, it’s some 200 odd pages and is a testament to the drive, passion and commitment of everyone involved that it was first started back in January. Here’s a sneak preview of some of the revisions that are currently being frantically re-inked:
Just when you thought I was going to take a break (or maybe that’s just my loving and tolerant wife), I’ve also turned my hand to animation, which is timely given the fact that as of tomorrow I’ll be teaching 3 weeks of Flash animation at San Jose’s tech museum. I’ll post my latest cartoon below, fingers crossed it works. Thanks to Queen for providing the soundtrack. I’ve also stuck some new watercolours up in the Gallery section for those of you interested in seeing my new colourful direction – quite how I can embrace that whilst not tripling how long it takes me to finish a page is, as yet, beyond me. Feel free to send in any suggestions.
Lastly, but by no means leastly, the hardhats piece continues to trundle along like the inky juggernaut it is – up to p.18 at the last count, though I’m reluctant to post any more pages up given the zany idea of actually making some money by having it published. News of that will be forthcoming, so stay tuned.
Here’s that cartoon I promised:
