“Everything that you need to know about reading, making, and understanding comics can be found in a single Nancy strip by Ernie Bushmiller from August 8, 1959. Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden’s groundbreaking work How to Read Nancy ingeniously isolates the separate building blocks of the language of comics through the deconstruction of a single strip. No other book on comics has taken such a simple yet methodical approach to laying bare how the comics medium really works.” Google books https://books.google.com/books/about/How_to_Read_Nancy.html?id=FrivDgAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description
‘Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story’ is a 16-page comic book about Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the Montgomery bus boycott published in 1957 by the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR USA). It advocates the principles of nonviolence and provides a primer on nonviolent resistance.
Although ignored by the mainstream comics industry, The Montgomery Story was widely distributed among civil rights groups, churches, and schools. It helped inspire nonviolent protest movements around the Southern United States, and later in Latin America, South Africa, the Middle East, and elsewhere. Over 50 years after its initial publication, the comic inspired the best-selling, award-winning March trilogy by Georgia Congressman John Lewis.
…Cartoonist Al Capp was an admirer of Dr. King; his studio produced Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story at no charge.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_and_the_Montgomery_Story
The March trilogy is an autobiographical black and white graphic novel trilogy about the Civil rights movement, told through the perspective of civil rights leader and U.S. Congressman John Lewis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_(comics)
Action Comics https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/ActionComics
For several decades now, Action Comics has held the honor of being the Holy Grail of comic book collecting: an original edition of a number 1 issue in good shape is worth well over a million dollars. Not bad considering that the original cover price in 1938 was ten cents.
A thagomizer (/ˈθæɡəmaɪzər/) is the distinctive arrangement of four spikes on the tails of stegosaurine dinosaurs. These spikes are believed to have been a defensive measure against predators.
The arrangement of spikes originally had no distinct name; cartoonist Gary Larson invented the name “thagomizer” in 1982 as a joke in his comic strip The Far Side, and it was gradually adopted as an informal term used within scientific circles, research, and education. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer
Mauldin was idolized in my extended family…as he was by most enlisted men. During the war, both sides of my family matched or exceeded the national average of military casualties. War stories remain a thread in my family…including the later resisters to military service in more traditional imperial wars that followed WW2.
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“Everything that you need to know about reading, making, and understanding comics can be found in a single Nancy strip by Ernie Bushmiller from August 8, 1959. Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden’s groundbreaking work How to Read Nancy ingeniously isolates the separate building blocks of the language of comics through the deconstruction of a single strip. No other book on comics has taken such a simple yet methodical approach to laying bare how the comics medium really works.” Google books https://books.google.com/books/about/How_to_Read_Nancy.html?id=FrivDgAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description
The Serious Business of ‘New Yorker’ Cartoons https://hyperallergic.com/201110/the-serious-business-of-new-yorker-cartoons/
Gilbert Shelton, “Wonder Wart-Hog Meets Super Patriot” (Nov 1962).
7AM MDT, tomorrow morning, 7th
‘Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story’ is a 16-page comic book about Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the Montgomery bus boycott published in 1957 by the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR USA). It advocates the principles of nonviolence and provides a primer on nonviolent resistance.
Although ignored by the mainstream comics industry, The Montgomery Story was widely distributed among civil rights groups, churches, and schools. It helped inspire nonviolent protest movements around the Southern United States, and later in Latin America, South Africa, the Middle East, and elsewhere. Over 50 years after its initial publication, the comic inspired the best-selling, award-winning March trilogy by Georgia Congressman John Lewis.
…Cartoonist Al Capp was an admirer of Dr. King; his studio produced Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story at no charge.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_and_the_Montgomery_Story
The March trilogy is an autobiographical black and white graphic novel trilogy about the Civil rights movement, told through the perspective of civil rights leader and U.S. Congressman John Lewis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_(comics)
Action Comics https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/ActionComics
For several decades now, Action Comics has held the honor of being the Holy Grail of comic book collecting: an original edition of a number 1 issue in good shape is worth well over a million dollars. Not bad considering that the original cover price in 1938 was ten cents.
“That time a cartoon preempted the Cuban Missile Crisis : The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends offered an alternative version of US-Soviet history.” https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2021/11/9/that-time-a-cartoon-preempted-the-cuban-missile-crisis
A thagomizer (/ˈθæɡəmaɪzər/) is the distinctive arrangement of four spikes on the tails of stegosaurine dinosaurs. These spikes are believed to have been a defensive measure against predators.
The arrangement of spikes originally had no distinct name; cartoonist Gary Larson invented the name “thagomizer” in 1982 as a joke in his comic strip The Far Side, and it was gradually adopted as an informal term used within scientific circles, research, and education. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer
The Thagomizer: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/65/Thagomizer.png
Insider Histories: Black Cartoonist E. Simms Campbell https://www.printmag.com/comics-animation-design/black-history-cartoonists-e-simms-campbell/
“Invisibly Black: A Life of George Herriman, Creator of ‘Krazy Kat’” https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/12/books/review/krazy-george-herriman-biography-michael-tisserand.html
MAGA Cartoonist Ben Garrison Turns on Trump After Pro-Vaccine Comments https://www.mediaite.com/news/maga-cartoonist-ben-garrison-turns-on-trump-after-pro-vaccine-comments/
In 2019, Trump raised eyebrows by inviting Garrison to the White House. Garrison, a longtime supporter of Trump (at least before this latest cartoon), had elicited accusations of antisemitism for depicting Jews as puppet masters.
“Ink-stained genius: Film reexamines cartoonist Bill Mauldin” https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/legislature/ink-stained-genius-film-reexamines-cartoonist-bill-mauldin/article_61d960be-885c-11ec-8768-679d2374eb16.html
“William Henry Mauldin (1921~2003) was an American editorial cartoonist who won two Pulitzer Prizes for his work. He was most famous for his World War II cartoons depicting American soldiers, as represented by the archetypal characters Willie and Joe.”
Mauldin was idolized in my extended family…as he was by most enlisted men. During the war, both sides of my family matched or exceeded the national average of military casualties. War stories remain a thread in my family…including the later resisters to military service in more traditional imperial wars that followed WW2.
‘Homer at the Bat’ at 30: The landmark ‘Simpsons’ episode that pushed the show’s boundaries https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2022/02/19/homer-at-the-bat-simpsons-baseball/