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This weekend saw one of the biggest protests sweep through London since the Iraq war march of 2003. Dredging through the different coverages, the best seems to come from outside of Blighty, being less bound by the infighting and muckslinging. Here’s background to the 26th of March protest in case you missed it.
From a longer New Statesman article, in turns dismissed as fiction and hailed as honest coverage: ‘’These young people are right to be angry. I don’t think people are angry enough, actually, given that the NHS is being destroyed before our eyes,” says Barry, 61, a retired social worker. “The rally was alright, but a huge march didn’t make Tony Blair change his mind about Iraq, and another huge march isn’t going to make David Cameron change his mind now. So what are people supposed to do?”
Good links in the tweetstream to student protestor eyewitnesses here. Point is, what good did it all do? Once again we see how the actions of just a small cadre of the black bloc (either real or saboteurs) gives ample excuse to all sides for the disproportionately violent response from the police. Looking at the photos from the event, you also have to ask yourself: what proportion of people there were actively participating, as opposed to filming or taking pictures of all this dissidence? It’s enough to make you become a Yes Man.
Holidays are here again, so what better way to relax then by pencilling and inking the largest comic I’ve ever done on sheets of MDF? Here’s the time lapse video so you too can revel in the 6 hours it took me to wrestle with this brute. Stay tuned for the next tier. I was amazed at how well the ink (Higgins speedball) took to the gesso’d wood surface. Naturally there were a few issues with the grain of the wood, but nothing major. The china marker I used also added a nice medium tone, along with some drybrushing.
Part 2 of the Comic Book Creators’ excerpts, as well as the good news that a regular publisher of my monthly comics, London’sThe Other Side Magazine, was recently featured in The Guardian‘s media section. Click here to read the interview with Sam, TOS’s fresh-faced Editor.
Details aplenty from Nate:
This was as far as I got with my Plague project, hamstrung by early modern english syntax and an obsession with hatching bordering on the maniacal. I’ll be picking this back up at some point in the near future, but for the most part will stick to narratives in the last 100 years…
Our story continues, as the desperate puritan hatches an escape plan from the Tower of London.
Here’s the start of a project I started at CCS earlier this year on the Great Plague of London (1665-6). It’s in Early Modern English, so persevere with the vocab – here are a few hints:
To Dance the Tyburn Jig – to be publicly hanged at Tyburn, now known as Marble Arch in London
coystril – scallion, rascal
