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Cerebus Rex II: the Second Half
Cerebus Rex II: The Second Half Hello, and welcome to Cerebus Rex II. Written by the Cerebus Fangirl and part by Daniel, it summarizes the second half of Cerebus from issue #150 to #300. It can be found on the internet at http://www.cerebusfangirl.com/rex/ Flight Issue #151 : The novel opens with Cirin in the Papal Library of the Eastern Church looking for books on the One True Ascension. The books that don't meet her criteria are thrown in the Furnaces. So far no books meet her requirements. The demon Khem realizes it has no reason to exist any longer. So it turns into itself and disappears. Cerebus is creating bloody hell in the streets of Iest. Cirin refuses to believe her troops that it is indeed Cerebus. The Judge appears to Death and tells it that it is not Death but a lesser Demon. Death ceases to exist. Lord Julius is sign briefly. Issue #152 : Cerebus fights more Cirinists and (male) on lookers start cheering for "the Pope." They start talking back to the Cirinists. General Norma Swartskof telepathically shows Cirin what Cerebus has been doing. The Black Blossom Lotus magic charm is in the Feld River, the magic leaves it's form and turns into a narrow band of light (the blossom disappears) and two coins that are over 1,400 years old start spinning together in a circle. The report from Cirin is to take Cerebus alive. The General thinks otherwise and orders him KILLED. Issue #153 : Cerebus climbs to a balcony and urges the citizens of Iest that it is the time for Vengeance, for them to grab a weapon, to take back their city and to kill the Cirinists. -
Full Issue BYU Studies
BYU Studies Quarterly Volume 53 | Issue 3 Article 1 9-1-2014 Full Issue BYU Studies Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq Recommended Citation Studies, BYU (2014) "Full Issue," BYU Studies Quarterly: Vol. 53 : Iss. 3 , Article 1. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol53/iss3/1 This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the All Journals at BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in BYU Studies Quarterly by an authorized editor of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. Advisory Board Alan L. Wilkins, chairStudies: Full Issue James P. Bell Donna Lee Bowen Douglas M. Chabries Doris R. Dant R. Kelly Haws Editor in Chief John W. Welch Church History Board Richard Bennett, chair 19th-century history Brian Q. Cannon 20th-century history Kathryn Daynes 19th-century history Gerrit J. Dirkmaat Involving Readers Joseph Smith, 19th-century Mormonism Steven C. Harper in the Latter-day Saint documents Academic Experience Frederick G. Williams cultural history Liberal Arts and Sciences Board Barry R. Bickmore, co-chair geochemistry Eric Eliason, co-chair English, folklore David C. Dollahite faith and family life Susan Howe English, poetry, drama Neal Kramer early British literature, Mormon studies Steven C. Walker Christian literature Reviews Board Eric Eliason, co-chair English, folklore John M. Murphy, co-chair Mormon and Western Trevor Alvord new media Herman du Toit art, museums Angela Hallstrom literature Greg Hansen music Emily Jensen new media Megan Sanborn Jones theater and media arts Gerrit van Dyk Church history Specialists Casualene Meyer poetry editor Thomas R. -
Identity and Form in Alternative Comics, 1967 – 2007
IDENTITY AND FORM IN ALTERNATIVE COMICS, 1967 – 2007 Emma Tinker UCL 2008 1 I, Emma Tinker, confirm that the work presented in this thesis is my own. Where information has been derived from other sources, I confirm that this has been indicated in the thesis. 2 ABSTRACT Identity and Form in Alternative Comics, 1967 – 2007 In the late 1960s, underground cartoonists established the comic book form as a space for the exploration of personal identity. “Alternative” comics grew out of this tradition as subsequent writers produced work independently of the major comics publishers, aimed at an adult audience and encompassing a broad range of visual styles and narrative content. Throughout the past forty years, British, US and Canadian writers and artists have used this medium to explore questions of selfhood and perception, often implicitly or overtly relating these issues to the form, history and conventions of the comic book itself. Two main threads run through this discussion of the representation of selfhood: childhood and memory on the one hand and sexuality and gender on the other. This thesis argues that for many creators there exists a useful analogy between the comic book form and mental processes, specifically between the fractured, verbal-visual blend of the comics page and the organisation of human memory. It further suggests that the historical association of comics first with childhood, and subsequently with male adolescence, has conditioned the representation of selfhood in adult comics. Comic book consumption has often centred on a community of predominantly young, white, male, socially marginal readers, buying and collecting serialised narratives. -
Alternative Comics: an Emerging Literature
ALTERNATIVE COMICS Gilbert Hernandez, “Venus Tells It Like It Is!” Luba in America 167 (excerpt). © 2001 Gilbert Hernandez. Used with permission. ALTERNATIVE COMICS AN EMERGING LITERATURE Charles Hatfield UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI • JACKSON www.upress.state.ms.us The University Press of Mississippi is a member of the Association of American University Presses. Copyright © 2005 by University Press of Mississippi All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America First edition 2005 ϱ Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hatfield, Charles, 1965– Alternative comics : an emerging literature / Charles Hatfield. — 1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-57806-718-9 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 1-57806-719-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Underground comic books, strips, etc.—United States—History and criticism. I. Title. PN6725.H39 2005 741.5'0973—dc22 2004025709 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii Introduction ix Alternative Comics as an Emerging Literature 1 Comix, Comic Shops, and the Rise of 3 Alternative Comics, Post 1968 2 An Art of Tensions 32 The Otherness of Comics Reading 3 A Broader Canvas: Gilbert Hernandez’s Heartbreak Soup 68 4 “I made that whole thing up!” 108 The Problem of Authenticity in Autobiographical Comics 5 Irony and Self-Reflexivity in Autobiographical Comics 128 Two Case Studies 6 Whither the Graphic Novel? 152 Notes 164 Works Cited 169 Index 177 This page intentionally left blank ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Who can do this sort of thing alone? Not I. Thanks are due to many. For permission to include passages from my article, “Heartbreak Soup: The Interdependence of Theme and Form” (Inks 4:2, May 1997), the Ohio State University Press. -
Cerebus: from Aardvark to Vanaheim, Reaching for Creative Heaven in Dave Sim's Hellish World
Cerebus: From aardvark to Vanaheim, reaching for creative heaven in Dave Sim's hellish world Tim Blackmore Resume: Tim Blackmore analyse la dimension intertextuelle des bandes dessinees de Dave Slim: a la fois evidentes et complexes, les allusions au cinema, a la peinture, aux genres litteraires et paralitteraires permettent de mieux preciser la frontier'e souvent incertaine entre la litterature reservee a lajeunesse et la litterature destinee aux adultes. Working from Kitchener, Ontario, Dave Sim writes, draws, and markets Cerebus, a highly successful black and white comic about an ambitious aardvark. When he began it in 1977, the comics world had dire warnings for him and for his then wife Deni Loubert (Cerebus's publisher): "We were told that we couldn't make it if we didn't go to New York" (Wawanash 31: 22). The overt threat implies that creative activity can only be successful in approved geo- graphical, financial and artistic surroundings. But Sim refused to accept that idea; as Gary Groth, editor of The comics journal, noted recently, "if Dave Sim at times seemingly operates out of an ivory tower, it should be remembered that he built it himself (Groth,"Repentant" 80). Discorporate Cerebus Sim's isolation is a key factor in the development of Cerebus. Remote from even the meagre support offered by the comics community, away from the corporate lap of above-ground American comics (Marvel and DC), away from under- ground comix (Zap, Weirdo), and even from ground-level comics publishers (Fantagraphics, Dark Horse, Tundra), Sim is one working in opposition to many. In 1984 he wrote, "You have to understand that doing a comic book for seven years with no one else assisting in the direction of it becomes a very intense kind of self-therapy" (Swords 6: 30). -
Comics and Literature: a Love Story
Comics and Literature: A Love Story by Robert Hutton A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English Carleton University Ottawa, Ontario © 2017 Robert Hutton Abstract This dissertation investigates the conjunction of comics, literature, prestige, and narratives of development and deviance. Drawing on case studies from the forty-year history of alternative comics, I argue that comics creators and publishers referenced literary figures and characters as a means of developing their ideas of artistic autonomy and development. This tangle of ideas stems from the suspicion and censorship of comics in the 1950s, when the young medium was accused of promoting deviance and maladjustment. Early figures in alternative comics such as Harvey Pekar, Dave Sim, and the critics of The Comics Journal fought this idea by drawing on the prestige of literature to present a vision of comics that adhered to conventional ideas of autonomous elite culture. In doing so, these writers sought to create a new form of comic that could help the medium and its readers out of the maladjustment it found itself in. Later, the writers of "groundlevel" comics referenced canonical literary authors in ways that both reaffirmed and, in the case of Alan Moore, questioned their canonical light. It is here that we begin to see total rejection of the developmental narrative, and a celebration of comics' low cultural status. Finally, I argue that the work of Ariel Schrag and Alison Bechdel takes a step forward in developing a queer idea of reading and writing that disrupt the narrative upheld by earlier authors. -
CHAPTER TWO the Aardvark Hero: Dave Sim's Cerebus
CHAPTER TWO The Aardvark Hero: Dave Sim’s Cerebus A number of threads have emerged in my analysis of R. Crumb that I will continue to follow through my reading of Dave Sim’s Cerebus. Both creators share a preoccupation with male identity, a desire to claim and validate the position of the outsider, and crucially, a belief that the form and conventions of the comic book are of particular value to the expression of this identity. Beyond these similarities, however, there are also significant differences in these writers’ approaches to the expression of selfhood, and in the shape that their work has taken. This chapter will be divided into two sections. I will begin by outlining the circumstances of Cerebus’ publication, which are extraordinary in their own right, and will then proceed with a brief overview of the plot and some of its main themes, focusing in particular on the way in which the comic has come to act as a mouthpiece for Sim’s unorthodox opinions. The second part of this chapter will focus on technical details in a close reading of one section of Cerebus. My analysis will centre primarily on those moments when Cerebus is drugged, confused, conflicted, hallucinating or otherwise unreliable. These sections are of particular importance because Sim’s belief in the inauthenticity of dominant western ideology, and its roots in fallible human perceptions, are central tenets of his personal philosophy. For thirty years Sim has deliberately set himself apart from Canadian society, espousing views that even his most loyal readers often find bizarre or offensive. -
Understanding Comics
TIME AND NARRATIVE IN DEPTHLESS VISUAL MEDIA By CHRISTOPHER THOMAS EKLUND A DISSERTATION PRESENTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA 2009 1 © 2009 Christopher Thomas Eklund 2 To Nikki, for sharing Blankets, Cages, and a Life with me, Kevin for Starry Wisdom, And Donald D. for Counter-Apocalyptic Resistances 3 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank my committee for their help, input and understanding, and my Chair in particular for guidance, feedback, and support beyond all reasonable expectations. I would also like to thank the staff of Smathers Library, especially Special Collections, for their help and for the opportunity to become involved with library exhibitions; the entire American Studies department at Purdue for taking a chance on me; Ruth Salvaggio and Janet Afary for mentoring; then English office staff and so many others in the university without whom I never would have finished this dissertation. My love and gratitude go out to my parents for nurturing in me the complementary loves of reading and learning, to my friends for commiseration and serving as sounding boards, and especially to my wife, Nikki, for brilliance, love, insight, beauty, and German’s chocolate cake. 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS page ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ...................................................................................................... 4 LIST OF FIGURES ............................................................................................................. -
Discussion on Whether a Man Persisting with an Argument That He Knows Is False, Is As Irrational As a Woman Who Treats a Pet Like a Baby
Discussion on whether a man persisting with an argument that he knows is false, is as irrational as a woman who treats a pet like a baby With fans of Dave Sim's Cerebus comic-books I found the following discussion fascinating on several levels. Cerebus , the longest-running comic series in human history, gained notoriety for presenting women as Emotional Voids, and men as Male Light. The author, Dave Sim, brought things to a head in Issue 186 by speaking in the first person, and including almost no graphics. Brilliant and courageous as I found it, I uploaded the text to The Reasoner's Library here , using my thinker's license to comment on Sim's silence on how men lusting after women creates them as Emotional Voids.* One of Sim's fans and also a Genius Forum member, Greg Shantz, notified the Cerebus fan-group of my comment. I joined the fan group's email list , to see whether they were fans of Issue 186 — in my view, the highlight and greatest achievement in the whole Cerebus strip. This discussion turned out as a fascinating example of how 'being right' in the eyes of others, such as a woman, a buddy or a group, often takes precedence over 'being truthful' in one's own eyes. The mental blocks erected by the fans to avoid confronting their buddy-buddying behaviour, and to preserve their group disapproval of Sim's views on women, strangely went totally unnoticed by them. So, Sim's greatest achievement is typically believed to lie in his contributions to the comic-book industry, ie.