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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.
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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