tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-176719842024-03-13T23:54:48.225-04:00Rules To Vivere By the blog of Paul KarasikPaul Karasikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866030906526013348noreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17671984.post-46191129964612255822018-12-03T14:07:00.000-05:002018-12-05T07:32:26.393-05:00Addams Family Holiday: Redux<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">In addition to being a bon vivant, ladykiller, and sports
car enthusiast, cartoonist Charles Addams was also a thief. He stole from
himself.</span></div>
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This cartoon appeared in the July 19, 1947 issue of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New Yorker</i>. Five years later Addams,
when painting a mural for a resort on Long Island <a href="https://michaelmaslin.com/move-over-addams-steinberg-did-an-89-foot-long-mural-dick-buchanans-tip-of-the-hat-to-funny-ladies-at-the-new-yorker-exhibit/" style="text-decoration-line: line-through;" target="_blank">(to date, the largest evermade by a New Yorker cartoonist)</a>*, repurposed the gag. Or, as it is called in
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In 1952, the larger fishing gag, consuming most of the
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Plenty of differences emerge when comparing the two images:
the expression and attire of the child (later to be known as “Pugsley”) — more
sadistically cheerful in the first image, more innocent in the second — as well
as his position relative to the burial mound. The entire landscape recedes to a similar vanishing point, but while the 1947 beach
is situated at the foot of a bluff, the 1952 environment is more dune-like.
Where several houses peek out above the grass in 1947, only the Addams’ Family gothic
beach house towers in the 1952 version.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A key similarity, however, is the presence of the drab Normals
who often populate the drawings of Charles Addams, reacting with fear and
discomfort as the clan goes about their daily macabre lives. On the left, two
little-boy Normals, with their normal sand castle and normal swim trunks, gaze
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">These onlooking denizens, often chunky, frumpy, and always
pale-white, are decidedly not us, but they are necessary abettors in Addams’
scheme to highjack erudite readers over to the Addams Family side of the fence of
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aligning ourselves with murderous children, matricidal spouses, and larcenous
misanthropes while the clueless bourgeoisie within the cartoons stand by with
slack jaws not getting what we get. Without any Normal beachcomber, little </span>boys,<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> or sandcastles to feel superior to, viewers are reduced to becoming Normals,
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For more on the mural:<br />
<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/07/09/the-addams-family-secret">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/07/09/the-addams-family-secret</a><br />
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* Michael Maslin, cartoonist and King of New Yorker Cartooning Trivia, reports that there is actually a mural LARGER than the Addams masterpiece...by the great Saul Steinberg. If you are into New Yorker cartoons, Maslin's website is the epicenter of related data on the subject. <a href="https://michaelmaslin.com/move-over-addams-steinberg-did-an-89-foot-long-mural-dick-buchanans-tip-of-the-hat-to-funny-ladies-at-the-new-yorker-exhibit/" target="_blank">CLICK HERE.</a><br />
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Paul Karasikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866030906526013348noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17671984.post-36142366198000171492018-10-16T18:08:00.000-04:002018-10-16T18:08:39.639-04:00Addams Family Holiday<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I spent most of the fall of 2017 as a Visiting Professor of Integrated Studies (whatever THAT means) at Penn State University where I discovered a neglected mural by Charles Addams. Hard to neglect a mural that is 14' long, but it had been relegated to the side basement entrance of the library behind a security desk and behind plate glass that perfectly reflected all of the ceiling fixtures in such a way as to virtually obscure the painting.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Subsequently it has been suggested to me that the mural was going to go into "cold storage" (maybe sold?) during the library renovation...but that my piece in the New Yorker kept it relocated on campus in a much more favorable and student-friendly environment...in the periodicals room.</span></span><br />
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Paul Karasikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866030906526013348noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17671984.post-36833732473694388742018-03-09T10:54:00.001-05:002018-09-12T09:45:42.365-04:00Graphic Report: Tuned-Up Organ<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Paul Karasikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866030906526013348noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17671984.post-37207058899846645622017-10-23T11:02:00.001-04:002017-10-25T22:03:31.523-04:00Talk at Penn State<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Paul Karasikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866030906526013348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17671984.post-90284977613716757822017-08-18T09:23:00.004-04:002017-08-18T09:27:31.690-04:00Graphic Report: Alley's General Store<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Paul Karasikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866030906526013348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17671984.post-77248989446376855112017-08-04T15:05:00.001-04:002018-09-12T09:45:58.744-04:00Graphic Report: Oyster Farming<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Paul Karasikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866030906526013348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17671984.post-85612383491397685992017-06-29T21:50:00.002-04:002018-09-12T09:56:38.080-04:00Vineyard Gazette Press Run<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Paul Karasikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866030906526013348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17671984.post-43725393546097873152017-01-26T09:15:00.002-05:002017-01-26T09:26:35.435-05:00Angouleme 2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I am not going to the Angouleme Festival this year, 2017. <br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-left;">Compared to</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-left;"> Bart Beaty I am an </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-left;">Angouleme neophyte. For the past four years I have come to Angouleme for the week prior to the Festival to teach a Comics Workshop at </span>the EESIschool<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-left;"> (in four classes, my students create eight-page mini-comics which they proceed to sell at the Festival). After teaching, I usually stick around for the Festival.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-left;">This year I offered to write some pieces for </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-left;">The Comics Reporter</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-left;"> for fun (and to score myself a Press Pass!). I had imagined that my pieces would dance around the edges of Bart's usual play-by-play posts. </span>I did not know until this morning that he would not be walking his usual beat this year<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-left;">, delivering genuine news stateside.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-left;">Bart's interest and knowledge of global comics and local Angouleme festival politics far exceeds my own. I suspect that my posts will be far more anecdotal and lacking in objectivity (as well as anything resembling real news).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-left;">To those of you who have come to depend on Bart Beaty's reporting, I join you in hoping that he returns to the Festival the near future.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-left;">This may come as a surprise to U.S. visitors who expect Comics Festivals to be about movies and television and computer games. The focus here is comics. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-left;">Wait, let me rephrase that, the real focus here is to separate attendees from the contents of their wallets -- through comics. Comics for every taste and demographic, many of which you will find nowhere else, are for sale everywhere. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-left;">You will get lost as soon as you land. The festival hands out oodles of free maps that you will see overflowing from trashcans throughout the city because they are essentially useless. Even Google Maps has given up on Angouleme, replacing the usual street map on your iPhone with a color drawing of </span>Professor Calculus<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-left;"> holding his divining pendulum and shrugging his shoulders. </span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-left;">3. Skip the schedule as well as the map.</b><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-left;">Here's an example: last year I followed the schedule and went to the location where I thought I was going to see an inking demonstration by an interesting Chinese artist. Instead I found there a living-tableau recreation of </span>Asterix and Obelix<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-left;"> outfoxing some Romans. I snuck out and, while trying to get my bearings, found myself in an auditorium where </span>Joost Swarte<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-left;"> was singing the blues -- a performance which was nowhere to be found listed on any schedule.</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-left;">4. To sum it up: go with the flow.</b><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-left;">The best way to enjoy Angouleme is to exit the train from Paris waving a white flag on a stick. Wander, be surprised, and be prepared to empty the contents of your wallet on the byways of this crazy little town.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The exhibition of work by Jacques Tardi in Angouleme this year is claustrophobic, poorly lit, and monotonous.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">These very qualities make this a landmark exhibition, undoubtedly one of the best comics shows I have ever seen.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">And believe me, I've seen plenty. In a minor fashion, I was involved in the Masters of American Comics exhibition that started at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and so I have some insider's knowledge of how difficult it is to install a show of comic art. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Comics are meant for in-the-hand reading. The cartoonist works with that precept and the publisher obliges by making objects that you have to hold to read. The advent of electronic reading devices has made comics consumption an even more intimate experience.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">This makes hanging comics on a wall a tricky proposition -- because you immediately objectify the original pages, whose design and function have been built on subjective manhandling.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The Tardi exhibition operates with a full understanding of this problem -- and uses that awareness to create a situation that forces the reader to embrace his powerful work in an intimate way.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Though the iconoclastic Tardi may not like to hear this, Tardi is an icon, an elder statesman of French comics who has worked successfully in many genres. But his most personal and forceful work are the hundreds of pages that he has spent chronologically chronicling the First World War in France.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The work is intense, brutal, gory, and unrelenting in its aim: to grab the reader by the lapels and lift him off the ground, shaking him out of the complacency that set in early after the Great War to matter-of-factly accept the unacceptable murder of thousands and the seismic ripple those deaths made through the generations.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">And because of this, the Tardi exhibit is not a display of work but a continuation of one man's artistic mission.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">At first the exhibit-goer may be put off by the space, which is claustrophobic. The walls are constructed of rough-hewn pine boards. The work is hung like lined-up dog tags. The lights emit a subdued incandescent glow, not dim, but not particularly illuminating. As you wander from space to space you may not be certain if you have already been in this gallery before. The soundtrack for the entire experience combines the sounds of a woman (Dominique Grange, Tardi's wife) singing songs of the era with a constant distant rumble of artillery.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Welcome to the trenches.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The work on the walls can be read as narrative sequences. In fact, each gallery space represents a different year of the war. But the experience can also be absorbed by tuning in and out of individual pieces: a body suspended in barbed wire, a child holding a pistol, smoke across the distant no-man's land. Either way, it's chilling.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">2014 is the 100th anniversary of the start of the War, and Tardi will not let you forget it.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">If you are now on your second day of the </span>Angouleme Festival<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">, you may be ready to get away from anything resembling comics and comics fans. How about ducking into a church?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">In the grand tradition of most small cities in Europe, Angouleme has a lot of churches. Wasn't there a</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Donald Barthelme story about a town that was nothing </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">but</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> churches? Angouleme comes close, edged out only by the ratio </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">per capita</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> of bakeries. On the 12-minute walk from my hotel to my local Angouleme supermarket, there are six bakeries. Believe me, I know.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">So during the Festival, if you are looking for some mid-day solitude from the rumble of the foot traffic, why not stop into one of these churches to take time off from comics and silently contemplate your deep moral personal questions (such as, exactly how are you going to explain the credit card charges for comics to the wife once you get back to the States)?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Uh-oh... you are merde-out-of-luck! Even the churches are filled with comics exhibits and fans!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Hmmm... maybe the prestigious </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Angouleme Museum might be worth a quiet side-trip to avoid the crowds? </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Uh-oh... they are running an exhibit on the first floor of COMICS! Unless you are fans of something called </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Ernest & Rebecca</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">, a comic for the kiddies that appears to feature a petulant brat with purple hair ("Rebecca") and a cute green something with big eyes ("Ernest"), dash past the throngs of </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Ernest & Rebecca</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> fans and climb upstairs.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Never mind. I'll let you in on a secret. During the Festival the Angouleme Museum is one of the best places to get away from comics throngs... once you go upstairs. Chances are you'll have the place to yourself.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">"But, Paul," you protest, "I came to Angouleme 'cause I'm a comics fan! I don't go for that high-brow museum art! I like my art to be filled with sex, violence, scatology, and weird stupid stuff!"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Mathilde, one of my students from the EESI school, grew up in Angouleme and was an Angouleme Museum guard. She cued me into a couple of secrets to delight the typical crass comics fan. I now share these secrets with you!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Seems like a typical rustic genre scene, yes? ["Scene d'auberge," by David Teniers, 1610-1690].</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Look closer! It's rustic, alrighty! There's a guy, painted about an inch tall, dropping his Flemish drawers next to the skating rink.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">This next one I discovered all by myself ["Scene de Patinage," by Claes Molenaer, 1660]:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Different artists, but the same rascal picture-bombed into both paintings! This time he is taking a leak.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">This is how they are displayed on the wall. Don't tell me that the Angouleme Museum curator does not have a jolly sense of humor!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">O.K.... so much for the scatology category. Now for the sex and violence. The Magred collection was assembled by Dr. Jules Lhomme, a resident of Angouleme who never set foot in Africa yet amassed one of the finest collection of 19th century African artifacts in any museum. Just how he assembled this collection during the so-called Colonial Period, I leave up to your 21st century imagination.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">You want violence? </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">You want sex?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">You want explicit sex?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">I have been to this museum on numerous occasions but never noticed this odd composition until Mathilde pointed it out to me.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Now a close-up of the above by Barthelemy Van Der Helst, 1655. It is titled, "Portrait of a gentleman from Pays-Bas and his Wife," but a more accurate title might be, "Portrait of a gentleman from Pays-Bas and his Wife and their Ungrateful Daughter Who Grew Up and Ran Off with the Baker's Son."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">In a corner of the otherwise bustling Little Asia Pavilion at the Angouleme Comics Festival sits an empty table, prime commercial real estate sitting empty.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Across town at the Theater is a show presented by the Korean government. Visitors crowd the entrance.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">What connects these two locations at the otherwise jubilant festival? Sexual slavery.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">I may have some of the details wrong on this situation, lots of language barriers here, but after speaking to several people about it, I think that I have a pretty good idea of what has occurred and why that table in Little Asia is empty.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">There is no disputing the fact that young Korean women were abducted by Japanese and brought to Japan to be employed as sexual slaves, or "Comfort Women." Estimates vary as to how many women were abused in this fashion.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The Korean exhibit at the Angouleme Theater opens with a fairly explicit animation of the story of one girl, who represents untold numbers of girls, and it is a terrible narrative of exportation and exploitation. It is chilling.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">As you move inside to the exhibition, you see work from a dozen or so Korean cartoonists on this subject. Some are heartbreakingly beautiful, some purely symbolic, some heavy-handed and trite. All are designed to reinforce the horror.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">In the rear of the exhibit is a wall where visitors are invited to write notes of sympathy and indignation on pastel paper flowers to tack on the wall.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The entire effect is didactic and discomforting. The Korean government shelled out a lot of euros to construct this testament.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Meanwhile, an empty table sits seven minutes across town.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">This table was going to display Japanese manga depicting versions of the story from artists from that country. The Festival shut down the booth. The table is empty.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">When I asked the organizers of the Korean booth why they believe the Festival closed down the Japanese booth they said that they understood that the material in the Japanese display was created by a right wing extremist group that denies the history.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The Koreans maintained that their booth is historical information and the Japanese booth had a political agenda. They explained, patiently, that it was as if the Americans had a booth describing Pearl Harbor and the Japanese had a booth denying that the bombing ever happened.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Over the past few days the controversy has escalated. A press release was issued to the Angouleme press corps from the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs that stated: "Throughout history, women's dignity and basic human rights have often been infringed upon during the many wars and conflicts of the past. The Government of Japan places paramount importance on and is committed to doing its utmost to ensure that the 21st century is free from further violations of women's dignity and basic human rights."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The press release goes to great lengths to explain its government's official position. It is not a denial and outlines the official reparations that have been made.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">I briefly held the Japanese manga and it appeared fairly tame, but I do not read Japanese. All I could discern from a quick skim were graphs and charts amid some kind of narrative. But I did get a chance to speak to the author of the comic and his associates who are as incensed at the behavior of the Festival as they are of the Korean's version of history.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The Japanese whom I spoke with believe that the festival organizers misunderstood the wording on a banner they hung, interpreting it as a claim that there were no comfort women.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">They do not dispute the existence of Comfort Girls, but they claim -- and this appears to be the linchpin -- that these girls were recruited and well-paid prostitutes, not abducted. In their eyes, they are not trying to rewrite history but trying to get their version of history, based on their research, out in the open.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Each side accuses the other of being political. Both sides believe that politics have no place at a comics festival.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Politics aside, these are ancient open wounds. The issue is still alive.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">... and women are still being used as commodities in the 21st century.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">I have had a swell time during this Festival, made new friends, checked in with old pals. I have seen terrific exhibitions, eaten great food, and even gotten a lot of exercise in the process of walking around town. But for me, Angouleme 2014 has been heavy.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">As beautiful as they are, the exhibitions of two essential European cartoonists, Jacques Tardi and Gus Bofa, are reminders to never forget the trench warfare of World War I. The Korean-Japanese dispute is a reminder to never forget the hell of World War II. Both underline the inhumanity capacity of humans.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Joe Lambert's "Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller" book is marvelously clever and moving. The book successfully navigates through treacherous cliché-infested waters and delivers the goods without sentimentality while still landing real emotion.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">It's too bad that the book suffered in the U.S. from a small format that did an injustice to his detailed work.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">This has been corrected in France where his publisher, Ca et La, had the good sense to reprint the translation in a large format that allows the work to shine.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Joe won an award from an organization that promotes rights for the disabled. It is a well-deserved prize.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Congratulations, Joe!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">When I met up with Joost Swarte on the first day of the festival he was giddy with anticipation. The contingent from the Netherlands arrived with two suitcases and a vacuum cleaner. When the suitcases are opened and the vacuum cleaner attached, a pop-up print shop materializes.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Addjacent to the open print shop were three studios where artists set up shop, creating on-the-spot poster designs (many dealing with the day's news) on tracing paper which the printer, the young man who designed the printshop-in-a-suitcase, and his assistant pulled screen prints.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">These prints were then posted all over town throughout the festival.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Visitors were invited to wander around the printshop and studios to watch the process. A playful sense of vitality kept things lively. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">As I wrote about in a prior column, there was an ugly incident regarding a book banned from the Festival. As a rule -- and as an American? -- I am opposed to book-banning, but, after speaking to the man who actually blew the whistle, I understand how this came about.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The manga questions the WWII practice of the abduction of Korean women to use as prostitutes in Japan, asserting that the women were recruited and paid. Comics historian and writer Thierry Smolderen, pointed out that this is not really a much better scenario and actually may shed a worse light on the Japanese.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">At any rate, the whistle-blower agreed with me that had the book been placed with a bunch of other manga on the Japanese table, he probably would not have noticed it and the whole controversy would not have erupted.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The Japanese contingent, however, made sure that people knew about the manga because they came to the Festival to make a point: they disagreed graphically with the Korean version of the history. They positioned themselves as nay-sayers -- but were viewed by many as extremist revisionists.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Ultimately, the event served to underline ongoing tensions between these countries... and the sad, brutal history of sexual exploitation that continues today.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">I attended my first Angouleme Festival seven or eight years ago. That year, an alternative comics store popped-up on a side street. Adjacent to the store, the purveyors had painted a reproduction of one of Richard McGuire's "Popeye" designs on a metal gate. Over the years the mural has been vandalized and finally, inevitably, this year it received a fresh coat of gray paint.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">When I first saw this sign years ago, my jaw dropped. Richard's Popeye designs are brilliant yet relatively unknown in the U.S. and here they were memorialized. Only in Angouleme! Unfortunately, I did not bring my camera that day.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">So I retuned the next day in the snow, camera in hand. As I neared the door, I could see that someone else had the same idea and was taking a snapshot. It turned out to be Charles Burns. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">*THE UGLY*</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">My short list in the "Ugly" category is far too subjective. It would include such tedious subjects as the constant drizzle and four hours of sleep and the lack of a decent cup of coffee.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Instead, let's sabotage this category and rename it "The Beautiful" and end with some images by the great Gus Bofa (1883-1968).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The first World War was covered by the great show by Jacques Tardi, which I have already written about. But I also wanted to let readers know about Gus Bofa's show on the same topic. Virtually unknown in the U.S., Bofa was a master illustrator best known for his on-the-spot and spot-on drawings of soldiers returned from the Great War often appearing in </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">La Baïonnette</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">, a French satire magazine that ran from 1915 to 1920 . </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Many of the non-War drawings in the show display a sly, wistful humor. His masterful satiric drawings of daily life resonate deeply for the French. One prominent comics publisher I met admitted leaving the exhibit with a tear in his eye.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">2. Camus + Munoz? Can someone please publish this book in English?!?!?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;">The only known painting by Fletcher Hanks has been discovered collecting dust in the dilapidated barn of his late son. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;">The large painting on board depicts a grim, long-haired man, clutching a blanket around his shoulders under a star dappled sky. A vintage car sits silently in the lower right hand corner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;">We may never know the circumstances of the work's creation or whom the figure represents but, as it is signed, there is no doubt that it was painted by the man whom R. Crumb called, "A twisted genius."</span></div>
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Paul Karasikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866030906526013348noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17671984.post-84453223020921101562016-12-18T09:18:00.003-05:002016-12-18T09:30:05.544-05:00Meet GARY!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Paul Karasikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866030906526013348noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17671984.post-12900676536134700732016-08-31T21:44:00.002-04:002016-09-09T14:49:23.289-04:00A Case for Pencils<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Me talk here:<br />
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Paul Karasikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866030906526013348noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17671984.post-55016815362423359022016-08-19T16:14:00.001-04:002018-09-18T21:29:23.689-04:00Graphic Report: Before the crowds descend at the Martha's Vineyard Agricultural Fair <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Paul Karasikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866030906526013348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17671984.post-63605987344339624792016-08-06T08:36:00.001-04:002016-08-06T08:36:17.137-04:00Graphic Report: At Edgartown Fish Market with Danny Larsen<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Paul Karasikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866030906526013348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17671984.post-53757950632002470562016-07-05T08:30:00.002-04:002016-07-05T08:30:51.059-04:00In the Studio with Ruth Kirchmeier<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Paul Karasikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866030906526013348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17671984.post-45825068428860100572016-05-15T09:36:00.000-04:002016-05-15T09:39:18.461-04:00Trump<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Several weeks ago the cartoon editor of The New Yorker, Bob Mankoff, sent out an APB to cartoonists to submit Donald Trump gags. For the first time in the magazine's history, all of the cartoons in an edition were aimed at a common target.<br />
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None of mine were chosen, so I present some of the rejects here.<br />
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BTW: Drawing Trump's hair is an interesting problem. Googleimaging "Trump caricature" results in a variety of approaches for tackling his coiffure. Nobody seems to understand exactly how it works.<br />
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Paul Karasikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866030906526013348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17671984.post-49674663943706945832016-04-28T21:02:00.003-04:002016-04-29T08:55:04.000-04:00Teaching in Italy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">The Scuola Internatzionale di Comics is run by some very nice people in Florence, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Jesi, </span><span style="font-size: large;">and Pescara: Marco Bianchini, Raphaela Massacesi,</span><span style="font-size: large;">Vanessa Petrucci, Graziella Santinelli and Sara Sasi. </span><br />
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when I say get away...I mean FAR away! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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host, Michael La Placa, owns the largest palazzo in the small hilltown of
Bettona. Just take a look at the rooms in the link above to see how
spectacularly he has renovated and furnished the joint. Plus, word on la strada is that Michael is a hell of a chef. Comics? Comfort? Italian cooking?
Vino? What else could you ask for?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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let's toss in a few side trips to nearby Assisi and Orvieto to uncover the
tricks of Renaissance “cartoonists” like Giotto, Perugino, Pinturicchio,
and Signorelli. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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international comics festival in Angoulême this past February pretty much
resolved not to return. By most accounts the festival was a disaster. Others
have reported, much more succinctly than I, how out of step, out of touch, and
out of decent coffee this event has become. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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blatant misogyny and insensitivity revealed the uncomfortable truth that the
festival is tired and stodgy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is like going to the elephant’s birthday party only to be stomped on by the
elephant who does not know why people are making such a fuss over getting
ground into the mud as he greedily finishes off the entire birthday cake.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">...And yet, in the midst of this narrow-minded sediment for members of the boys' club, there are nuggets of shiny comics-related expertise and esoterica. Things happen to me there that could only happen in </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Angoulême</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">. </span><br />
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before the festival began, Jean-Pierre Mercier, the Director of the Musée de la
Bande Dessin<span style="color: black;">é</span>e, invited me out to lunch. We
took the short cut through the museum and out the back door, passing, along the
way, the frantic last-minute hanging of the Morris exhibit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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cartoonist who created a much-beloved character named Lucky Luke and in doing
so cemented some fundamental rules for 20<sup>th</sup> century French
cartoonists, namely to make comics about the American West and limit yourself
to only one name. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Most of such
cartoonists beloved by generations of Europeans leave me cold. And I mean truly
beloved. While suggesting that the festival be burnt to the ground may elicit a
complicit shrug from a French comics fan, to dismiss Franquin, Gotlib, and
Moebius is heresy punishable by being burnt to the ground, yourself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is to me a different kettle of ink. I kinda like his stuff. He knows how to
stage an action and design a page so that every gag pays off and in all sorts
of unexpected ways. And here he was, as a part of this festival. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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one of those guys who did nothing but make comics…well, almost nothing but make
comics. In his spare time, he carved little wooden toy figures of his creations…little
toy figures that move. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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not yet sealed and Jean-Pierre delicately reached in and demonstrated Morris’
handiwork in action. Amazing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is supposed to be a crowded, smoke-filled room lit by a dangling light bulb and
badly in need of a paint job. In Angoulême, the Press Room has 15 ft. high
windows snuggled by velvet drapes. You can just make out the chandelier in this
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where I found comics historian, Paul Gravett, chatting merrily to Jean
Mardikian, one of the guys who founded the festival. Gravett’s usual way of
chatting to anyone is merrily and he has the uncanny ability to be everywhere
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flipping through photostats of pages of British romance comics from the 1970s
featuring Carnaby Street ingénues with panda eye-makeup, straight hair, and
white hip boots and guys all wielding sideburns that a mouse could get lost in.
Not really my cup of tea, but these particular pages were weirdly notable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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page sat a transparent sheet of acetate bearing a reduced copy of the line art
but with the translated English lettered in French inside the word balloons.
They had been sitting in Mardikian‘s attic for decades and the transparencies
had become semi-attached to the photstats creating an unintentionally wonderful
gestalt. Again, only in Angoulême.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">So, OK guys (and
I do mean guys): get rid of the stodginess of Angoulême. Burn it to the ground,
but in its ashes allow for a new festival to arise. Move the commerce to the
sides and give the art events some breathing room. Bring the artists into the
planning stages to create a new model for the entire festival. And, while you’re
at it, skip the whole awards charade. Shake the whole thing up. I really want
to like this festival ‘cause things occur to me there that simply do not happen
anywhere else on the planet. But some big things must change.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Paul Karasikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866030906526013348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17671984.post-63288402739148415972016-01-30T13:03:00.000-05:002016-02-01T10:15:58.467-05:00Angouleme 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I came to Angouleme a week and a half ago to teach a Masters
class on comics and stayed on for the Festival. I have done this several times
before but skipped last year. The only notable difference between this year and
past years when I attended is the presence of Security Forces everywhere. Two gendarmes stand
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The psychological effect of this is hard to assess, but the
physical effect is painfully apparent. Checking backpacks and wanding bodies
takes time hence the lines to get into any tent have become <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>sluggish, especially on the
final day of the Festival. Throw some ink-wash gray drizzle on top of this and
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This may actually be a good thing for commerce. After
waiting an eternity for entrance, once inside where all those comics are for sale, pent up Festival-goers let loose a torrent of
repressed euros.</div>
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The Festival began with the sexist debacle described in a
previous post where women were not included (also known as “excluded”) from the
list of possible Grand Prix recipients. Reinforcing this masculine slant, the
three blockbuster exhibits feature the works of two dead titans of European
comics, and one living Japanese master: all men. </div>
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For me, the high point of the festival was discovering the
work of Li Chi-tak, yes, also a man, who has been working in Hong Kong comics since 1984 when he
was 17. His works range from fairly straight-forward genres (he drew a series
called “Black Mask” about a guy who wore a black mask that was made into a film
starring Jet Li wearing a black mask), to surreal. My favorite stuff that was
on display in a small exhibition of his work at the festival is the surreal
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Paul Karasikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866030906526013348noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17671984.post-62296990162750983272016-01-26T06:33:00.003-05:002016-01-27T05:13:13.902-05:00Mission in Angoulême<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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am in Angoulême teaching a Masters Class in Comics at the EESI School. My class
of 13 bright and talented students are creating autobiographical mini-comics.
With a short deadline looming, we took time off from class to cross the river prompted by the present controversy surrounding this year’s Angoulême
International Comics Festival that starts this Friday. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Each
year 30 names are announced as finalists for the Grand Prix. Traditionally, the
winner, voted on by cartoonists published in France, gets a huge retrospective
of their works the following year and must attend endless ceremonies in their
honor. This year’s contenders were announced a couple of weeks ago. The
controversy? Not a single female cartoonist was included on the list.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">When
this exclusion was pointed out to them, the official reaction from the
organizers of the prize was that, “…the festival cannot revise the history of
comics." Subsequently, male cartoonists on the list began to take their names
off in solidarity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Then things got messier.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The officials tried to add six women to the list. A few hours later, that idea got scrapped and they turned the whole thing into an open vote with no pre-selected list.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Still with me? Wait... things get messier, still.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">To keep up with the convolutions I had to turn to my friend, comics author and scholar, Theirry Smolderen, who explained,</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“In principle, as this point, anyone could win. Only dead
authors and previous recipients were excluded. Oh, yes, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and</i> Claire Bretécher, for some obscure reason. She has already won
the “Festival Tenth Anniversary” award in the early 1980s, and the festival
decided that was a sufficient motive to exclude her from the lifetime
achievement award. Joann Sfar, however, had won the very, very similar “Festival
30<sup>th</sup> Anniversary Award”, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">wasn’t
</i>excluded. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyways, after <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that</i> vote, the Festival declared that
the first three names were Hermann, Alan Moore, and Clare Wendling. All of
which have declared previously that they weren’t interested in getting the
award, and would probably refuse it.”</span></div>
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The probable result at this point is that there will be no Grand Prix this year.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">My
students are fortunate enough to take classes three minutes away from the
bastion of comics history, the Musée de Bande Dessinée, the largest
institution of comic art in Europe. They have been welcomed by the Director of
the Musée, Jean-Pierre Mercier, a scholar and all-around decent citizen, to
partake of the museum’s treasures whenever they like.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">There
is nothing more illuminating to an aspiring cartoonist than to look at original
comic art. So much can be learned by looking at the actual paper on which a
master’s hand has marked. And here in Angoulême, the Musée allows students to
actually hold the work and examine it up close.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">So
we asked the Museum to cull a few examples of work by women cartoonists and went to examine history. We were met by Nelly Lavaure, </span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">who took us into the inner sanctum where she had laid out not merely
a few examples, but dozens of works </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">in every comics genre </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">by extraordinary female cartoonists including:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Claire
Bretécher<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Cestac<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Jacqueline
Cohen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Bernadette
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Rachel
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Julie
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Lilliane
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Conclusion: Women have been making museum-worthy comics for
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Paul Karasikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866030906526013348noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17671984.post-86751453395459300252016-01-24T16:00:00.003-05:002016-01-25T06:55:16.232-05:00Day Trip to Bordeaux<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Bordeaux is a swell town to visit and a city I could see
myself living in some day if I ever learned a few more words in French and
depending on how the upcoming US Presidential election turns out.</div>
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It is very cosmopolitan and by that I mean that everywhere
there are people who are strolling around dressed very well, very shabbily,
and, though it is January, people who are barely dressed at all. And, since it is
Bordeaux, there is lots of fine wine and gourmet cuisine everywhere. Such as
this:</div>
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<i style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">HFC: Halal Fried Chicken</span></i></div>
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And literally around the corner, 47 steps away (I counted),
this:</div>
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<i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">CFC: Chilly Fried Chicken (though it is also halal)</span></i></div>
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I like to go into old churches and look at poorly lit old
stuff. Unlike the twisting streets of your typical European city, you can never
get lost in a church. They are all laid out basically the same. Like a cross...and don't you forget it, heathen!</div>
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The Cathedral of St. Andre is dim, cold, and large (the town recently
vetoed the idea of renaming it The Cathedral of St. Andre the Giant). There may be some wonderful things in there to see, but I kept bumping
into tourists stumbling around taking selfies in the dim light so I gave up and headed to
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On my way there I noticed a small, well lit annex that
turned out to be a gallery of two rooms with about 30 first-rate painting,
sculpture and reliquaries. The work that struck me was the early renaissance
stuff that curiously appeared to be mostly<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Italian.</div>
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Here is one of two paintings on exhibit of the Mystical Marriage of Saint
Catherine. This was an event that I never heard of, but I suspect that the
mystical part had to do with Catherine getting married to a baby who liked to
play with his toes... at least I think that's what he is playing with.</div>
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Baby Jesus ate his fruits and vegetables and so should you.</div>
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And then, there was this. Is this is one of the greatest
Madonna and Child paintings ever? I don’t think I have ever seen Mary tweak the
Baby’s earlobe like that with her Lincoln Log fingers, but it is charming. And
the Baby Jesus’s poke actual seems to push Mary’s bemused mouth a little to the
side. It’s a hell of a painting.<br />
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Next stop, the Musée des Beaux Arts. The last time I was
here a few years ago, these galleries were closed for renovation. The bathrooms
definitely got an upgrade, but the rooms themselves in the pre-19<sup>th</sup>
century wing do not appear to have been upgraded or even swept since the reign
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Several reviews on TripAdvisor commented that this was a good place to take the kiddies...<i>seriously?! </i>All I can say is that whoever curated this impressive collection had a taste for flesh...<i>seriously!!</i></div>
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“Slave Trader” by Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli (nice last
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“David Holding the Head of Goliath” by Aubin Vouet</div>
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“The Miracle of Saint Justus” By “Pierre” Paul Rubins</div>
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“Painting Crowned by Fame” by Sebastiano Mazzoni<br />
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“Saint Sebastian Aided by Irene” Attributed to the Maitre a
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“Giotto in Chimabue’s Studio” by Jules Ziegler<br />
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Huh? This is a subject that I know a bit about. Chimabue was Giotto's teacher whom Giotto left in the dust. So, in this version of reality, Giotto was half naked in Chimabue’s studio when he got
the idea that he could completely revolutionize Western painting forever by
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Paul Karasikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866030906526013348noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17671984.post-11371302405568820062015-07-24T07:23:00.000-04:002015-07-24T07:23:01.949-04:00How NOT to Get a Cartoon in The New Yorker<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Paul Karasikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866030906526013348noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17671984.post-49342375751058684982015-07-06T12:31:00.003-04:002015-07-07T14:33:52.145-04:00How To Grow Mushrooms<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Paul Karasikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866030906526013348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17671984.post-12694243908325769592015-04-11T16:27:00.003-04:002015-04-13T21:45:06.853-04:00Don't Cry for Me, Technopolis!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">They still have newsstands in Bueno Aires.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">They still like comics, too.</span></div>
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I
went to Buenos Aires on the invitation of <span style="color: #1a1a1a;">Juan Manuel
Dominguez, </span>the smart and enthusiastic organizer of the comics section<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of “Encuentro
de la Palabra”, an
art, music, literature, and video extravaganza held outside of Buenos Aires in
a sprawling complex called Technopolis. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Families
come to Technopolis to let the kids run wild on all sorts of cool apparatuses.
Hipsters come to Technopolis to dig art installations by their peers. I came to
Technopolis to be completely confused about Technopolis.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Was
it a theme park? A civic center? A playground? As far as I could tell, the
“tech” part was low and the “opolis” part was the Buenos Aires skyline off in
the distance.<span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Among
the installations sprinkled around the extensive Technopolis grounds was a mini
play gas station, a flashing neon-lit robot-looking thing, and a bunch of
pavilions containing multimedia presentations. There is also an airplane for
the family to clamber around in and play Flight Attendant and Disgruntled
Passenger. Next to the parked airplane is a structure so large it could hold a
fleet of such jets and have room left over for the Queen Mary. It is filled
with art exhibits and cool things for kids to play on, and a huge concert hall.<o:p></o:p></div>
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plant, I wandered around trying to make sense of the incongruent elements at
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Beach
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lapping waves were projected.<br />
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of “real” artifacts from the time the aliens landed in downtown Buenos Aires.
Sort of like Welle’s “War of the Worlds” broadcast, the gullible believe in the
event, while most of the populace understand the exhibit to be based on a popular comic strip from 1964.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Everything is free of charge. Families flocked. <o:p></o:p></div>
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one point I got carried away in a flow of families and rode downstream into a
dim auditorium. Bleachers could just be discerned, but the stage was aglow
with whirling neon spotlights jittering to the throbbing music. Hundreds of
seats were filled in eager anticipation. I figured that it was going to be a
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Argentine fight for independence performed by dozens of dancers in oversized
cartoon costumes against an animated backdrop. I was later told that the
spectacle is based on a very popular TV show which explained the enthusiastic
sing-along by the audience. At one point the actors portrayed soldiers
valiantly struggling across the Andes in bitter wind. Suddenly the roving green
spotlights began to swing through the audience much to the delight of the crowd
as little bits of snow-like flakes descended from the catwalks. Wait…it was not
snow-like…it was real snow! Viva la Republica! Viva Technopolis!<span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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still get a beer if you choose to. Their collection of 19<sup>th</sup> century
and early 20<sup>th</sup> century original and printed comics pages is small but impressive. I liked their floors, too.<span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Subsequently,
we were given a tour of the Biblioteca Nacional's comics collection, which
is relatively new, but wonderfully maintained by the knowledgeable and
dedicated scholar, Jos<span style="color: #424242;">é</span>-Maria <span style="color: #424242;">Gutiérrez</span> (I was told that
“Jos<span style="color: #424242;">é</span>-Maria” is not an uncommon naming strategy for parents trying to cover
their bets. If it’s a girl, they just name her “Maria-Jos<span style="color: #424242;">é</span>”). Through his
collaborator, the affable Pablo Zweig, we saw a lot of originals and learned a
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and spent decades replacing it with the enormous concrete Biblioteca Nacional. This, of course, only added to the deification of Juan…well,
especially of Evita. A sculpture of the Perons now sits in a park where their
own garden may have once been located. The paint on Evita’s face is badly worn
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around the world for years in fear that rooting them into any ground might
cause a seismic (and political) disruption. When her body was finally properly
entombed, it was in a welded iron crate placed in the family crypt, which had
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Recoleta Cemetery. But it’s a swell place to take the family on a Saturday
morning to pay your respects to the most beloved figure in the nation’s
history. Flowers were being placed on the door when I snuck in with the crowd.
A woman kissed the marble façade. An old man wiped away a tear. Evita died in
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is not your low rent neighborhood cemetery, like the one in Montparnasse, Paris where every
homeboy and his tante are dumped, but an upscale affair where families actively
try to out-do each other in ostentatiousness. Some of the crypts are plain,
some are memorial wedding cakes. Some are well maintained, some have imploded
by age and vandals. Every one is worth contemplation…but there are hundreds of
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