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Here’s the last of the Honduran coup pages: the follow-up is on the drawing board, and the spanish version is now being revamped thanks to some helpful translation tips from Nicolas Ariztia. We may have a bead on a Mexican paper interested in posting it, so keep coming back for updates. Also I’ll be posting my latest piece (and first forray into watercolour) either tomorrow or over the weekend, which involves the British Indian Ocean Territory and the new guantanamo. Plus checkout my flickr page and add me as a contact in the links to the right for more sketches, studies and doodles. The more activist art we can get onto Flickr the better.
Shouts out to the brazilian visitors to the site: Jefferson, Alexandre Lucas from the Faz Caber design/arts blog and Douglas Duarte from the O livreiro blog.
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.
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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The last page of the prologue seals the perhaps predictable fate of Rene Schneider as part of a botched kidnapping attempt. Almost 40 years later there is a case still pending as Schneider’s family attempt to bring Kissinger to justice for his part in Schneider’s murder. Review the court documents here or find a more comprehensive overview here.
Many thanks to Adam Johnson for the pointer about spent Uzi rounds (and everything else!) and a hearty morale-boosting salute to the Stanford Graphic Novel Project Team, who are sweating away on their congolese graphic novel as I tap. The newest edition of my minicomic is almost done now so I’ll post snippets of it soon – and of course, feel free to get your orders in via the store page above!
So much for my regular post promises – but it’s been worth it to focus on the first splash panel in a while. For those new to the site, this is the 2nd page of the prologue, featuring Chilean Army Commander Rene Schneider. As you can tell, things aren’t about to end well.
All sorts of other gigs on at the mo, likc illos for Profile books in the UK and the Stanford Graphic Novel project, now at the 30 inked page mark. In other news, my now ancient piece in Julia Wertz’s missed connection anthology (published by Random House) has finally seen the light of day!
For regular readers of this strip, pretend that the next three pages come before everything else you’ve read. I won’t give the game away about what happens – but the Army General in question is Rene Schneider
so feel free to follow that link and spoil the surprise for yourselves. And welcome to new readers – you’ve joined at the perfect time. I’ll post the correct page order soon once more of the strip is up.
