Tag Archive | "politics"

Parecomic Kickstarter – a reminder

Monday, April 2, 2012

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A quick reminder that Parecomic, the fascinating sounding 200 page comics project delving into the history of the modern protest movement and the contemporary distrust of politics and the system, placing it into some context – a pretty timely book, I would think – by Sean Michael Wilson and Carl Thompson is still running its [...]

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Congratulations to the Lady

Sunday, April 1, 2012

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Watching the historic news of Aung San Suu Kyi being elected to the Burmese parliament after years of house arrest, again Guy Delisle’s wonderful Burma Chronicles springs to mind; in his pages detailing his long stay in that country I learned that during her incarceration the Burmese people referred to her as “The Lady”. If [...]

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Alan Moore guest posts on the BBC site

Friday, February 10, 2012

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Our great, bearded magus Alan Moore, Albion’s Wizard in Extraordinary, is given a guest slot on the BBC site to discuss this global adoption of the V For Vendetta mask he and Dave Lloyd had the titular character wear in the comic, now sported worldwide by a variety of anti-corporate and anti-authority (or more precisely [...]

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Alan Moore at Occupy London

Monday, January 16, 2012

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As was widely reported and tweeted about last week, the great bearded Sage of Northampton that is Alan Moore visited the Occupy London site – it’s quite interesting seeing the writer of V discussing the widespread use of V For Vendetta masks by various protestors! There’s a video of the meeting now uploaded:

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Occupy Miami

Thursday, November 24, 2011

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Sarah Glidden reports from the Occupy movement in Miami in comics form on Cartoon Movement; I do like the way some creators use Cartoon Movement to get serious points across using the medium and it is nice to see that in Miami they haven’t suffered the same horrendous acts that have been doled out in [...]

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London’s easy targets

Thursday, October 20, 2011

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I’m indebted to Matt B for pointing out this excellent strip that David Ziggy Greene posted up on his blog a couple of weeks ago, on one aspect of the massive budget cuts in public services which hang over pretty much everyone in the UK (and US, Greece, Italy, Ireland… well, the depressing list goes [...]

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“Pencil-necked weasel”

Thursday, May 5, 2011

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I almost missed this until author Jeff VanderMeer pointed me in the direction of this City Pages site, but apparently Neil Gaiman was insulted – pretty much verbally abused actually – by some ridiculous Republican politician in Minnesota who clearly has no manners and no decorum or any ability to conduct himself in public in [...]

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The Waiting Room

Thursday, April 14, 2011

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The increasingly must-read Cartoon Movement site which we’ve linked to a few times before, most recently for Anne Holliday and Tom Humberstone’s Drawing the Line, which charted the recent student protests in Britain and the police response to them, has a fascinating new strip up by How To Understand Israel in 60 Days author Sarah [...]

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The Cuts

Thursday, March 24, 2011

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Bloghorn reports on a new exhibition opening today, Cuts, which showcases the work of 16 young illustrators using the visual medium to pass comment on the savage public spending cuts the current coalition government seems to enjoy telling us we so desperately need (hmm, perhaps we might believe them if we didn’t see senior bankers [...]

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Pushing Mubarak off the national stage

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

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The always interesting Cartoon Movement site has posted up this cartoon by Sherif Arafa, the first on the site he has posted since Mubarak stepped down from dictatorial president of Egypt. It is also the first time Sherif’s depicted Mubarak in such an openly recognisable manner and that speaks volumes for the freedom of speech [...]

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Drawing the line: students, comics and protest

Friday, February 4, 2011

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On the Cartoon Movement site Anne Holiday and Tom Humberstone have been busy posting up a series of strips, Drawing the Line, which comment on the recent massive student demonstrations that have taken place all over the country (especially the huge demo in London) in protest at the enormous hike in university fees imposed by [...]

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The Lady

Monday, November 15, 2010

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Watching the news out of Burma over the last few days following Aung San Suu Kyi’s release I’ve found myself thinking back to Guy Delisle’s excellent Burma Chronicles, a wonderful bit of travel lit as comics covering the period the artist spent living in Burma with his wife (working for Médecins Sans Frontières). One of [...]

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Politics primer

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

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Vincent Caut, one of the more interesting rising stars on the French alternative comics firmament, gives a short introduction to contemporary politics on his blog (check out the rest there).  Even though I like the idea and the exquisite simplicity of the execution, I’m not sure whether this strip is not an illustration of the [...]

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Ken MacLeod video interview

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

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Missed this, but one of my very favourite authors – and indeed one of the UK’s consistently most inventive and intelligent writers – Ken MacLeod has a webcam video interview with IO9‘s Annalee Newitz for Bloggingheads.tv, discussing Ken’s books, his influences, science, the creation of synthetic lifeforms and, naturally enough for Ken, politics:

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The general election in comics

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

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Confused by the live debates where party leaders switched from ‘I agree with…’ to ‘get real’ depending on opinion polls, policies which are never fully explained and indeed the actual outcome of the election viz a viz who will actually be the next government (currently they are trying to decide via the medium of musical [...]

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