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Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan
Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan : Honing the Hybridity of the Graphic Novel By DJ Dycus Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan : Honing the Hybridity of the Graphic Novel, by DJ Dycus This book first published 2012 Cambridge Scholars Publishing 12 Back Chapman Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2XX, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2012 by DJ Dycus All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN (10): 1-4438-3527-7, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-3527-5 For my girls: T, A, O, and M TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Figures............................................................................................. ix CHAPTER ONE .............................................................................................. 1 INTRODUCTION TO COMICS The Fundamental Nature of this Thing Called Comics What’s in a Name? Broad Overview of Comics’ Historical Development Brief Survey of Recent Criticism Conclusion CHAPTER TWO ........................................................................................... 33 COMICS ’ PLACE WITHIN THE ARTISTIC LANDSCAPE Introduction Comics’ Relationship to Literature The Relationship of Comics to Film Comics’ Relationship to the Visual Arts Conclusion CHAPTER THREE ........................................................................................ 73 CHRIS WARE AND JIMMY CORRIGAN : AN INTRODUCTION Introduction Chris Ware’s Background and Beginnings in Comics Cartooning versus Drawing The Tone of Chris Ware’s Work Symbolism in Jimmy Corrigan Ware’s Use of Color Chris Ware’s Visual Design Chris Ware’s Use of the Past The Pacing of Ware’s Comics Conclusion viii Table of Contents CHAPTER FOUR ....................................................................................... -
October 29, 2013 (XXVII:10) Jim Jarmusch, DEAD MAN (1995, 121 Min)
October 29, 2013 (XXVII:10) Jim Jarmusch, DEAD MAN (1995, 121 min) Directed by Jim Jarmusch Original Music by Neil Young Cinematography by Robby Müller Johnny Depp...William Blake Gary Farmer...Nobody Crispin Glover...Train Fireman John Hurt...John Scholfield Robert Mitchum...John Dickinson Iggy Pop...Salvatore 'Sally' Jenko Gabriel Byrne...Charlie Dickinson Billy Bob Thornton...Big George Drakoulious Alfred Molina...Trading Post Missionary JIM JARMUSCH (Director) (b. James R. Jarmusch, January 22, 1981 Silence of the North, 1978 The Last Waltz, 1978 Coming 1953 in Akron, Ohio) directed 19 films, including 2013 Only Home, 1975 Shampoo, 1972 Memoirs of a Madam, 1970 The Lovers Left Alive, 2009 The Limits of Control, 2005 Broken Strawberry Statement, and 1967 Go!!! (TV Movie). He has also Flowers, 2003 Coffee and Cigarettes, 1999 Ghost Dog: The Way composed original music for 9 films and television shows: 2012 of the Samurai, 1997 Year of the Horse, 1995 Dead Man, 1991 “Interview” (TV Movie), 2011 Neil Young Journeys, 2008 Night on Earth, 1989 Mystery Train, 1986 Down by Law, 1984 CSNY/Déjà Vu, 2006 Neil Young: Heart of Gold, 2003 Stranger Than Paradise, and 1980 Permanent Vacation. He Greendale, 2003 Live at Vicar St., 1997 Year of the Horse, 1995 wrote the screenplays for all his feature films and also had acting Dead Man, and 1980 Where the Buffalo Roam. In addition to his roles in 10 films: 1996 Sling Blade, 1995 Blue in the Face, 1994 musical contributions, Young produced 7 films (some as Bernard Iron Horsemen, 1992 In the Soup, 1990 The Golden Boat, 1989 Shakey): 2011 Neil Young Journeys, 2006 Neil Young: Heart of Leningrad Cowboys Go America, 1988 Candy Mountain, 1987 Gold, 2003 Greendale, 2003 Live at Vicar St., 2000 Neil Young: Helsinki-Naples All Night Long, 1986 Straight to Hell, and 1984 Silver and Gold, 1997 Year of the Horse, and 1984 Solo Trans. -
Not "The Thinker," but Kirke Mechem, Tennis Umpire and Som.Etimc Author and Historian
r Je :/ Not "The Thinker," but Kirke Mechem, tennis umpire and som.etimc author and historian. This recent pholograph of 1Hr. Mecbem belies a fairly general belief that the s(;holar is out of toueh with thing's oJ the world. He're he is shown calling shots at a, !.ennis tournament in Topeka. He formerly p-layed, and two of his sons gained eminenee in Kansas and Missouri Valley play, kirke mechem THE KANSAS HISTORICAL QUARTERLY Volume XVII November, 1949 Number 4 "Home on the Range" KIRKE MECHEM The night Franklin D. Roosevelt was first elected president a group of reporters sang "Home on the Range" on his doorstep in New York City. He asked them to repeat it, and made the statement, so it was said, that it was his favorite song. Later he often listened to the ballad at the White House, and it was reported that at Warm Springs he frequently led his guests in singing it. Stories of the President's approval soon made "Home on the Range" one of the country's hit songs. By 1934 it had moved to the top on the ra dio, where it stayed for six months. Everybody sang it, from Lawrence Tibbett to the smallest entertainer. Radio chains, motion picture com panies, phonograph record concerns and music publishers had a field day -all free of royalties, for there was no copyright and the author was un known. At its peak the song was literally sung around the world. Writing from Bucharest, William L. White, son of William Allen White of Kansas, said: They all know American songs, which is pleasant if you are tired of wars and little neutral capitals, and are just possibly homesick. -
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Mailed free to requesting homes in Eastford, Pomfret & Woodstock Vol. V, No. 51 Complimentary to homes by request (860) 928-1818/e-mail: [email protected] FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2010 THIS WEEK’S KEEPING HIS COOL QUOTE Rell announces “The present is the point at housing grants which time WOODSTOCK RECEIVES $300K; touches eternity.” KILLINGLY GETS $610K BY CLARE HOPKINS development, affordable housing, INSIDE VILLAGER STAFF WRITER community facilities and other Gov. M. Jodi Rell announced last renewal projects. week that 35 Connecticut towns, “In a time when local budgets are A8-9 — OPINION including Woodstock and Killingly, tight and towns have little, if any, A12 — SPORTS would be awarded Small Cities funding available for community Grants from the state. projects, we want to help in any way B1 — HOT SPOT The grants are given through the we can,” said Rell. “These grants are B3-4 — OBITS U.S. Department of Housing and an essential tool — a lifeline — for Urban Development’s Small Cities our communities. With the collabo- B5 — RELIGION Community Development Block ration of the federal and state gov- B6 — CALENDAR Grant Program and administered in ernments, towns and cities can Connecticut by the Department of build and improve senior centers, Economic and Community housing and other municipal proj- Development. The grants are given LOCAL to towns to be used for economic Turn To GRANTS, page A14 Shawn Kelley photo SOUTHBRIDGE, Mass. — Henry Johnson, 3, of Woodstock, refreshes himself by pouring water from a bubbler on his head during the recent heat wave. French Canadian Matt Sanderson photo The Eastford Transfer Station, located at 246 Westford Road, received major renova- Fest tions this year, including a new facility and solar-powered trash compactor. -
Forestry Source April 2018
Special Edition: Range Management News for forest resource professionals published by the Society of American Foresters April 2018• Vol. 23, No. 4 Range Management: The Intersection of Forests and Rangelands ention range or rangeland, and some people will think of “Home Mon the Range,” the old western folk song sometimes called the unoffi- cial anthem of the American West. “Oh give me a home where the buffalo roam/ Where the deer and the antelope play/ Where seldom is heard a discouraging word/And the skies are not cloudy all day.” According to the Library of Congress, soon after Franklin D. Roosevelt was first IN THIS ISSUE elected president, he declared “Home on the Range” his favorite song. !"#$%&''()$*+,-.('$#/0-+01$#+2 Although the buffalo don’t roam Congress has agreed on a comprehensive much anymore, deer and the antelope package of legislation designed to fix the wild- certainly play across much of the West. fire funding issue and implement some mean- But deer and antelope don’t define ingful federal forest-management reforms. “rangeland.” Webster’s dictionary gives The agreement, which is part of the omnibus the term a broad meaning: “an open re- @?01',?0-$0'?($A?>B)30C$*934+01D$E&373F$!>377$G?/'(C$H!$:?7/(?,$@')3/(>')$%30)'(I?7+30$!'(I+>'D spending bill covering all federal agencies for gion over which animals (such as live- the rest of fiscal year 2018, passed both the stock) may roam and feed.” The Bureau the title of this introduction to the articles ident Barry Iriving. An article beginning House and Senate and was signed by the pres- ident on March 23. -
Narratives of Contamination and Mutation in Literatures of the Anthropocene Dissertation Presented in Partial
Radiant Beings: Narratives of Contamination and Mutation in Literatures of the Anthropocene Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University By Kristin Michelle Ferebee Graduate Program in English The Ohio State University 2019 Dissertation Committee Dr. Thomas S. Davis, Advisor Dr. Jared Gardner Dr. Brian McHale Dr. Rebekah Sheldon 1 Copyrighted by Kristin Michelle Ferebee 2019 2 Abstract The Anthropocene era— a term put forward to differentiate the timespan in which human activity has left a geological mark on the Earth, and which is most often now applied to what J.R. McNeill labels the post-1945 “Great Acceleration”— has seen a proliferation of narratives that center around questions of radioactive, toxic, and other bodily contamination and this contamination’s potential effects. Across literature, memoir, comics, television, and film, these narratives play out the cultural anxieties of a world that is itself increasingly figured as contaminated. In this dissertation, I read examples of these narratives as suggesting that behind these anxieties lies a more central anxiety concerning the sustainability of Western liberal humanism and its foundational human figure. Without celebrating contamination, I argue that the very concept of what it means to be “contaminated” must be rethought, as representations of the contaminated body shape and shaped by a nervous policing of what counts as “human.” To this end, I offer a strategy of posthuman/ist reading that draws on new materialist approaches from the Environmental Humanities, and mobilize this strategy to highlight the ways in which narratives of contamination from Marvel Comics to memoir are already rejecting the problematic ideology of the human and envisioning what might come next. -
Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
H IL INOI S UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN PRODUCTION NOTE University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library Large-scale Digitization Project, 2007. ,I University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois Press **: .... 9 7 THE BUvL LE T IN OF THE CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S BOOKS October 1995 Vol. 49 No. 2 ^^0 A LOOK INSIDE 43 THE BIG PICTURE When Plague Strikes: The Black Death, Smallpox, AIDS written by James Cross Giblin and illustrated by David Frampton 44 NEW BOOKS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE Reviewed titles include: 53 * You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton? written by Jean Fritz; illus- trated by DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan 61 * Slot Machine by Chris Lynch 66 * Bearing Witness: Stories of the Holocaust; comp. by Hazel Rochman and Darlene Z. McCampbell 68 * Math Curse written by Jon Scieszka; illustrated by Lane Smith 75 * Cowboy Charlie: The Story of Charles M. Russell written and illustrated by Jeanette Winter 77 PROFESSIONAL CONNECTIONS 78 SUBJECT AND USE INDEX EXPLANATION OF CODE SYMBOLS USED WITH REVIEWS * Asterisks denote books of special distinction. R Recommended. Ad Additional book of acceptable quality for collections needing more material in the area. M Marginal book that is so slight in content or has so many weaknesses in style or format that it should be given careful consideration before purchase. NR Not recommended. SpC Subject matter or treatment will tend to limit the book to specialized collections. SpR A book that will have appeal for the unusual reader only. Recommended for the special few who will read it. -
Invaders Sample.Pdf
Mark McDermott 4937 Stanley Ave. Downers Grove, IL 60515 [email protected] These excerpts are intended as “writing samples” for the author of the articles presented. They are not intended for reuse or re-publication without the consent of the publisher or the copyright holder. ©2009 Robert G. Weiner. All rights reserved McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Box 611, Jefferson, North Carolina 28640 www.mcfarlandpub.com Mark McDermott 4937 Stanley Ave. Downers Grove, IL 60515 [email protected] The Invaders and the All-Star Squadron Roy Thomas Revisits the Golden Age Mark R. McDermott Introduction By the mid-1970’s, many fans of the “Golden Age” of comic books had grown up to become writers and ultimately editors for the comics publishers, sometimes setting the nar- rative histories for their favorite childhood characters themselves. Many of these fans-turned- pro produced comics series that attempted to recapture the Golden Age’s excitement, patriotic fervor and whiz-bang attitude. The most successful of these titles were produced by Roy Thomas, who fashioned a coherent history of costumed heroes during World War II, and rec- onciled the wildly inconsistent stories of the 1940’s with tightly patrolled continuity initiated with the “Silver Age” of the 1960’s. With The Invaders (1975-1979), Thomas focused on the hitherto unrevealed wartime exploits of Marvel Comics’ early mainstays Captain America, the Human Torch, and Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner. In 1980, he moved to DC Comics and launched All-Star Squadron, which juggled the histories of the Justice Society of Amer- ica and nearly a hundred secondary characters. -
Table of Content
Table of Content Introduction.................................................................................................................................... Chapter I: The Misrepresentation.................................................................................................1 1. Wolverine vs. Northstar.......................................................................................................3 2. Rawhide Kid........................................................................................................................7 3. Freedom Ring......................................................................................................................9 4. Punisher.............................................................................................................................11 5. Hulk vs. YMCA.................................................................................................................13 6. Superior Iron Man.............................................................................................................18 Chapter II: Coming Out As a Mutant: Queerness in X-men Comics..........................................22 1. Legacy Virus – the Image of AIDS in Comics...................................................................24 2. How (Not) To Be A Mutant – Acceptance And Self-acceptance........................................29 Chapter III: Bisexuality and Gender Transgression in the Marvel Universe...............................33 1. The Case of Peggy Carter vs. Howard -
Newspeak Volume 08, Issue 09, April 22, 1980 the Tudes Nts of Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester Polytechnic Institute DigitalCommons@WPI Newspeak All Issues Newspeak 4-22-1980 Newspeak Volume 08, Issue 09, April 22, 1980 The tudeS nts of Worcester Polytechnic Institute Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/newspeak Recommended Citation The tudeS nts of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, "Newspeak Volume 08, Issue 09, April 22, 1980" (1980). Newspeak All Issues. Book 180. http://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/newspeak/180 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Newspeak at DigitalCommons@WPI. It has been accepted for inclusion in Newspeak All Issues by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@WPI. The deslgnet ol the Gosaemet Albetrosa, Dt. Paul 8. MecCtHdy, Jr., wlll be th• guest spHl<er at the 1980 Commencement ceremonies. Th• Albatross Is shown abo.-e cronlng The English Channel. Story below. The WPI Commuter The student newspaper of Worcester Polytechnic Institute Volume 8 Number 9 Tuesday, Aprll 22, 1980 'Cream of the Albatross Faculty discusses MBA crop' chosen designer program at WP/ for class of '84 is speaker by Maureen Sexton stated In the memorandum, " The ob by Lynn St. Germain NewspeaJc staff jective la to train managers Inter Newspeal< staff Dr. Paul B. MacCready, Jr., whod~ ested In applying management skills signed the first man-powered air In technlcally oriented organizations." craft to fly the English Channel, wlll The Department of Management's As the year comes down to an end proposed Master of Buslneaa Ad WPI undergraduatee would have and around campus one sees signs of give the commencement address at the option of participating In a five Worcester Polytechnic Institute. -
Pie Making Class by Cheryl
Hardwick, VT Food For People Not For Profit Spring 2013 FREE In This Issue: To Boycott or not to Boycott – that is for you to decide... Food for Thought………pg 2 By Staff Member, Annie Gaillard Boycotting Guide. …….pg 3 Organic Consumers Association, a watch- suggest, plead even, that if you DO choose GMO Labeling is Good dog organization for the organic industry, to boycott, you write the company, or call has called for a boycott on companies who their consumer hot line (see the Boycott for the state………………pg 4 donated money to defeat California's Gen- Buying Guide on page 3) and TELL them that etically Modifies Organism Labeling Law, you are boycotting and why. Our small store Learning Exchange.pg 6-7 A.K.A. Prop. 37. Between Monsanto, other and the few cases that we sell will have a Coop Workshops………..pg 7 genetic engineering companies and many much lower impact in their loss of sales that large food companies, they poured over $46 you directly letting them know they did the Vegecation…………………..pg 8 million into an advertising campaign to con- wrong thing. vince consumers that it would be a bad idea Good luck - together we can reclaim our Vaccination to let people know if the foods that they democracy from these corporate giants. We eat contain GMOs. Some of those big gro- will NOT let them keep brainwashing us Information……………….…pg8 cery companies are the parent companies of with their advertising. We will educate our- Tales from the mainstream organic brands. When I looked selves and become activists. -
Constructing the Mangaverse : Narrative Patterns in Marvel's
Constructing the Mangaverse : narrative patterns in Marvel’s appropriation of manga products Hernandez Perez, M http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315584898-15 Title Constructing the Mangaverse : narrative patterns in Marvel’s appropriation of manga products Authors Hernandez Perez, M Type Book Section URL This version is available at: http://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/60742/ Published Date 2015 USIR is a digital collection of the research output of the University of Salford. Where copyright permits, full text material held in the repository is made freely available online and can be read, downloaded and copied for non-commercial private study or research purposes. Please check the manuscript for any further copyright restrictions. For more information, including our policy and submission procedure, please contact the Repository Team at: [email protected]. Constructing the Mangaverse: Narrative Patterns in Marvel’s Appropriation of Manga products Dr. MANUEL HERNÁNDEZ-PÉREZ. Lecturer in Digital Design, School of Arts and New Media (SANM), The University of Hull, Scarborough Campus. Scarborough, YO11 3AZ, UK [email protected] ABSTRACT: Even though American and Japanese publishers dominate comic book sales globally, their respective contexts and products could not be any more different. In the case of American comics, the best-known and most celebrated genre – often criticized for being considered mainstream—is that of superheroes. However, the relationship between genre, theme and audience in the history of manga presents a different pattern. Japanese comics, particularly diverse with regard to demographic and generic segmentation, show a greater homogeneity in the use of stylistic codes which have come to be known as Japanese Visual Language (Cohn 2010).